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The following books, articles, and websites I found useful in my research for this website. This is by no means a comprehensive list of all information or links on acid deposition, but it should be a good starting point for future research.

Websites

Acid Rain FAQ - from Environment Canada
http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/msc/as/acidfaq.html

US Environmental Protection Agency acid rain website http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/acidrain/

Environment Canada acid rain website
http://www.ec.gc.ca/acidrain/index.html

National Atmospheric Deposition Program / National Trends Network
http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/

Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation
http://www.adirondacklakessurvey.org/

The Adirondack Council
http://www.adirondackcouncil.org/

Clear the Air up-to-date background information and political news
http://www.cleartheair.org/

Yahoo! Acid Rain links
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/Pollution/Acid_Rain/

Acid Deposition Monitoring and Research in the UK
http://www.aeat.co.uk/netcen/airqual/aciddep/

Online references

Most of these online documents are in Adobe pdf format. Most newer computers will have the software to read these documents, but if you cannot open these documents, visit Adobe's website and download their free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
http://www.adobe.com/

Acid Rain Revisited - An updated assessment co-authored by scientists from the United States Geolocial Survey (USGS) and Hubbard Brook Research Foundation.
http://www.hbrook.sr.unh.edu/hbfound/report.pdf

Atmospheric Deposition Program of the U.S. Geological Survey. - A short report describing the USGS program to measure acid deposition.
http://bqs.usgs.gov/acidrain/Program.pdf

2000 Annual Progress Report on The Canada-Wide Acid Rain Strategy for Post-2000
http://www.ec.gc.ca/acidrain/strat-e.pdf

Acid Rain - A Continuing National Tragedy. 1998. An informational brochure published by The Adirondack Council.
http://www.adirondackcouncil.org/acrapub.pdf

Offline References

Baker, J.P. et al. 1990. Adirondack Lakes Survey: An Interpretive Analysis of Fish Communities and Water Chemistry, 1984-1987. Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation, Ray Brook, NY, USA.

Randorf, G. 1998. Environmentral advocacy, the Adirondacks and air quality.
Environmental Science & Policy 1: 175-178.

Pouyat, R.V., and M.A. McGlinch. 1998. A legislative solution to acid deposition. Environmental Science & Policy 1: 249-259.

Driscoll, C.T., K.M. Postek, D. Mateti, K. Sequeira, J.D. Aber, W.J. Kretser, M.J. Mitchell, and D.J. Raynal. 1998. The response of lake water in the Adirondack region of New York to changes in acidic deposition.
Environmental Science & Policy 1: 185-198.

Center for Environmental Information. 2001. Acid rain: are the problems solved? Conference Executive Summary.

Longcore, J.R. et al. 1993. Acidic depositions: effects on wildlife and habitats. Wildlife Society Technical Review 93-1. 42pp.

Jenkins, Jerry The Adirondack Atlas a Geographic Portrait of the Adirondacks. Adirondack Museum and Park Syracuse University Press, 2004

 

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