WATER QUALITY: Technical Information--"A Critique of Methods for Measuring Aquatic Primary Productivity" by Donald A. Goolsby, WRD, Tallahassee, Florida


                                                      June 1, 1976


QUALITY OF WATER BRANCH TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 76.18

Subject: WATER QUALITY: Technical Information--"A Critique of 
Methods for Measuring Aquatic Primary Productivity" by Donald A. 
Goolsby, WRD, Tallahassee, Florida

A copy of the subject paper is attacbed for your information. It 
concisely describes the strengths and weaknesses of the various 
methods for measuring primary biological produtivity. Procedures 
approved by the Water Resources Division for determining primary 
productivity can be found in "Methods for Collection and Analysis 
of Biological and Microbiological Samples" (Slack and others, 
1973, TWRI, Bk. 5, Ch. A4).

Please see that the paper gets adequate circulation among WRD 
personnel.



                                R. J. Pickering

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