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Subject: Dunkard Creek information just posted on www.UpperMon.org including PowerPoints from MRRCC 9 October Meeting

From http://www.uppermon.org/Dunkard_Creek/index.html

MRR&CC Mon River Water Quality Forum - 9 October, 2009

The 9 October 2009 meeting of the Mon River Water Quality Forum focused on the Dunkard Creek fish kill.

We offer .PDF versions of the following PowerPoint presentations which were made:

Dunkard Creek Fish Kill Assessment - September 2009
Frank Jernejcic and David Wellman, Fisheries Biologists, West Virginia Division of Natural Resources - Wildlife Resources Section

Dunkard Creek Aquatic Life Kills - September, 2009
Patrick Campbell, West Virginia DEP-DWWM (Division of Water and Waste Management)

Upper Monongahela River Water Quality Project - Project WRI 119 - July to September 09 Results
Paul Ziemkiewicz, Water Research Institute - West Virginia University

Steele Shaft AMD Treatment Facility
Elizabeth Roberts, AMD Reclamation, Inc.

We have obtained several other references on golden alga:

Growth at the edge of the niche: An experimental study of the harmful alga Prymnesium parvum
Jason W. Baker, James P. Grover, Ratheesh Ramachandrannair, Cody Black, Theodore W. Valenti, Jr., Bryan W. Brooks, and Daniel L. Roelkec - Limnol. Oceanogr., 54(5), 2009, 1679–1687

Growth and Toxicity of Prymnesium parvum (Haptophyta) as a Function of Salinity, Light, and Temperature
Jason W. Baker, James P. Grover, Bryan W. Brooks, Fabiola Urena-Boeck, Daniel L. Roelke, Reagan Errera, and Richard L. Kiesling - J. Phycol. 43, 219–227 (2007)