The 1999 Mississipi Water Resources Conference meeting will be held at the Eagle Ridge Conference Center in Raymond, Mississippi on April 7-8. Jean Daniel, Mississippi Water Resources Research Institute, is the point of contact for the conference and can be reached at (601) 325-7356. Listed below are abstract titles of presentations that will be made by U. S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program personnel at the conference. For additional information on NAWQA presentations, contact Richard Coupe at (601) 933-2982.

ABSTRACT TITLES:

A summary of major water-quality findings in 20 large river basins assessed by the U.S. Geological Survey: T. L. Miller.

Occurrence, distribution, and transport of pesticides in southern Louisiana: D. K. Demcheck

Nitrate and P concentrations and loads in part of the Upper Miss. R., Minn. and Wisconsin, 1996-98: S. Kroening

Water-Quality Assessment of the Ozark Plateaus: Friewald

Nutrients, pesticides, and pesticides metabolites discharged to the Miss. R. from Eastern Iowa watersheds, 1996-98: D. J. Schnoebelen

Yields of total N and total P in the Tenn. R. Basin, 1992: M. D. Woodside

Occurrence and distribution of nutrients and pesticides in streams in the upper Mississippi R. basin - results from a regional study in Illinois, Iowa, and Minn., August 1997: P. J. Terrio

Assessment of nutrient trends for the Mobile River Basin: D. Harned

Assesssment of water quality in the Mobile R. Basin: J. B. Atkins.

Pesticides and degradates in glacial drift aquifers, lower Illinois River Basin: K. L. Warner.

Contaminants and related effects in fish from the Mississippi River Basin: W. L. Bryant.

Analysis of persistent orgainc pollutants (POPs) in the Cotton Belt using semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs): L. R. Zimmerman

Analysis of herbicide degradation products by gc/ms, hplc, lc/ms, and ELISA: E. M. Thurman

MISE NAWQA Papers

Surface-water quality of the Mississippi Embayment NAWQA study unit: M. A. Manning

Ground-water activities in the MISE, 1994 through 1998, NAWQA: G. J. Gonthier.

Bed sediment and fish tissue sampling in the MISE S.U.: B. A. Kleiss

Preliminary Determination of factors influencing aquatic biological communitites in the MISE: B. G. Justus

APIRL 8TH PLENARY SESSION:

Overview of NAWQA in the Southeast Region: Jeff Armbruster

Flux and sources of nutrients in the Mississippi River Basin: Don Goolsby

Loads of N and P from the Yazoo River Basin to the Mississippi River: R. H. Coupe

Richard Coupe, U. S. Geological Survey, Jackson, MS