The Missouri Department of Natural Resources explains the parameters to determine the water quality.

http://www.dnr.mo.gov/env/esp/waterquality-parameters.htm

The article shows how the water quality varied between different land forms in the Rhode Island area.

http://ian.umces.edu/pdfs/ecocheck_report_card_308.pdf

This article from Earth Force describes the use and importance of fecal matter in the water quality index.

http://www.eeweek.org/assets/files/Water%20Quality%20Testing/Water%20Quality%20Parameters.pdf

The Albemarle RC& D Council provided images of different creeks connecting to the Pasquotank River.

http://www.albemarlercd.org/Paddle_Trails.asp

Wikipedia provided the description and usage of the secchi disk.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secchi_disk

The Great Dismal Swamp Water Quality Analysis provided a similar research project for using water quality to determine the health of the water.   

http://abyssal_night.tripod.com/data.html

The U.S. Geological Survey gave the description of each water quality variable and the measurements.    

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/characteristics.html

The Southern Florida Water Measurement District Water Quality Monitoring provided descriptions of the water quality index variables.     

http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/education/kids/watermonitoring/measuring.html

The Chehalis River Council gives a table of contents of the variables for water quality.      

http://www.crcwater.org/wqmanual.html

The Water on the Web provides the definition and importance of turbidity.       

http://www.waterontheweb.org/under/waterquality/turbidity.html

The Water Research page gives the calculations and percentages for each water quality variable.        

http://www.water-research.net/watrqualindex/index.htm

This research paper focused on a similar project for water quality in Georgia.         

http://bighaynescreek.webs.com/Research%20Papers/Research%20Paper.pdf

This article discussed how to measure the turbidity of the water.          

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/sustainable_engineering/resources/technical/Turbidity-Myre_Shaw.pdf

The FCC provided the conversion calculations for the latitude and longitude.           

http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html

The LaMotte provided the instructions on how to use the pH, TDS, and salt tracer.          

http://www.lamotte.com/industrial_water_boiling_cooling/product_line/instrumentation/pocketesters.html#EC/TDS/SALT

Undergraduate Research Experience in Ocean, Marine and Polar Science
URE OMPS promotes the professional development of minority undergraduate students through their participation in ocean, marine, and polar science.

http://nia.ecsu.edu/ureomps2010/

Elizabeth City State University
A Historically Black College located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

http://www.ecsu.edu/

Norfolk State University

A Historically Balck College located in Norfolk, Virginia

http://www.nsu.edu/

Saint Augustine's College
A Historically Black College located in Raleigh, North Carolina.

http://www.st-aug.edu/

Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research
The goal of CERSER is to develop and implement innovative and relevant collaboration focused on ice sheet, coastal, ocean, and marine research.

http://cerser.ecsu.edu/

National Science Foundation
NSF is the the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences.

http://www.nsf.gov/

NIA
The central point of entry of several research projects at Elizabeth City State University.
http://nia.ecsu.edu/