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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Water samples collected from four Midwestern National Parks reveal a variety of prescription medications, personal care products, and insecticides are contaminating not just
urban waterbodies, but even the most remote lakes. A recent journal publication by GLKN aquatic ecologist David VanderMeulen and Sarah Elliott of the U.S. Geological Survey details their results.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Read the journal article:<br>
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969716325682">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969716325682</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">or read a short version in this resource brief:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2237907" target="_blank">https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2237907</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">David VanderMeulen sent this out and said,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please feel free to share. We are trying to write these types of briefs to accompany our NPS technical
reports, and journal articles.” His contact information is:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">David VanderMeulen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Aquatic Ecologist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">National Park Service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Great Lakes Inventory & Monitoring Network<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">2800 Lakeshore Dr. E.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Ashland, WI 54806<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Office: 715.682.0631 ext. 224<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Mobile: 715.209.8633<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:david_vandermeulen@nps.gov">david_vandermeulen@nps.gov</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806">Barb Bickford</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Medical Waste Coordinator and Hydrogeologist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Waste and Materials Mgt/Environmental Management Division<br>
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources<br>
101 S. Webster St., PO Box 7921, Madison, WI 53707-7921<br>
Phone: 608-267-3548<br>
Fax: 608-267-2768<br>
barbara.bickford@wisconsin.gov<br>
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