{"id":18,"date":"2018-01-30T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/water-science\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:35:24","slug":"environmental-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/water-science\/environmental-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Quality Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To better assess the condition of a waterbody, the water quality parameters are commonly monitored:<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-list\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/water-quality-assessment\/#ph\">pH<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/water-quality-assessment\/#oxygen\">dissolved oxygen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/water-quality-assessment\/#conductivity-salinity\">specific conductance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/water-quality-assessment\/#conductivity-salinity\">salinity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/water-quality-assessment\/#temperature\">Temperature<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/suspension\/\">Total suspended solids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/suspension\/\">Turbidity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/nutrient-analysis\/\">Nutrients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/total-coliforms-and-e-coli\/\">Total Coliforms and E. coli<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/microbial-source-tracking\/\">Microbial source tracking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/phytoplankton\/\">Phytoplankton<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/cyanotoxins\/\">Cyanotoxins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/chlorophyll-phycocyanin\/\">Chlorophyll and phycocyanin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/water-science\/environmental-services\/macroinvertebrate\/\">Benthic macroinvertebrate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p class='a11y-label'>\n<!-- fetch new: 133.55 ms -->\n<!-- decode:  0.06 ms -->\n<!-- output:  0.03 ms --><\/p><div class=\"profile\"><div class=\"profile-picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" alt=\"Meiyin Wu profile photo\" data-original-image=\"\/profilepages\/media\/2056\/user\/Meiyin_Wu.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/profilepages\/media\/2056\/user\/Meiyin_Wu.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" \/><\/div><div class=\"profile-data\"><p class=\"name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~wum\">Meiyin Wu<\/a><\/p><p class=\"title\">Professor, Biology<\/p><dl class=\"compact\"><dt>Phone<\/dt><dd><a class=\"a11y-phone-number\" href=\"tel:973-655-7117\">973-655-7117<\/a><\/dd><dt>Email<\/dt><dd><a href=\"mailto:wum@montclair.edu\">wum@montclair.edu<\/a><\/dd><dt>Location<\/dt><dd>Center for Environmental & Life Sciences, 300<\/dd><\/dl><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To better assess the condition of a waterbody, the water quality parameters are commonly monitored: pH dissolved oxygen specific conductance salinity Temperature Total suspended solids Turbidity Nutrients Total Coliforms and E. coli Microbial source tracking Phytoplankton Cyanotoxins Chlorophyll and phycocyanin Benthic macroinvertebrate Contact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":450,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/water-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/water-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/water-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/water-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/water-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/water-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/water-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/water-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/water-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}