Waste Minimization for Hazardous Materials Inspectors: Module I.
Introductory Text with Self-testing Exercises, California Environmental
Protection Agency, January 1991

This book by Dan is on the Web at www.emcentre.com/unepweb/publication/hazardous.html or in hardcopy as Publication #517 from: California EPA, Dept of Toxic Substances Control, Office of Pollution Prevention & Technology Dept., Technology Clearinghouse. (http://www.dtsc.ca.gov)
 

Student projects/theses supervised, a sampling from 1990-2003:

Assessment & management of aquatic ecosystems in local watersheds

• Sulfate Reducer Bacteria Population Distribution in a Nature Center Pond and the Effect of Removal of Dead Cattails along its North Shore Region, Karnadi P. Doeve, May 23, 1996
• Dibromochloropropane (DBCP) Ground water Contamination in Redlands, California, Don Messamer, November 27, 1991
• A Survey of Plankton in the Salton Sea, Randall Frederick Good, February 2, 1993
• A Review of Trophic Classification Systems and an Assessment of the Trophic Status of Mary Vagle Pond, Maimari A. Soultana, May 31, 1996
• Temperature-Dependent Time Lags Affecting Population Dynamics of Lake Zooplankton, Sarah Michelle Seidman, May 27, 1997 (Research performed in lab of Professor M. V. Moore at Wellesley College)
• A Preliminary Study of Puddingstone Reservoir Plankton: Biology, Relative Abundance, and Standing Crop Biomass, Alena Linda Vlna, October 7, 2002
• An Assessment of the Macroinvertebrate Community of San Antonio Creek in the Sub-Santa Ana Watershed (San Gabriel Mountains), Brian Brew, May 22, 2002
• A Study of the Cultural History, Hydrology, and Riparian Vegetation of Upper “Marshall Creek West” in La Verne, California (The Wilderness-Park Reach), Park Southworth, May 10, 2002
• Ecology of Salicornia bigelovii Torr. [in Estero Morua, Mexico], Jason Marquez, November 19, 2001
• Ecology of the Solitary Ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Michael Anthony Buckley, May 11, 1998
• Case Study: Management of the Salton Sea, Rhonda M. Laugeson, February 20, 1996

Sustainable Development

• Third World Focus--A Case Study in Community-based Development: Mesa del Campanero, Sonora, Mexico, Michelle L. Ashurst, July 15, 1991, (Under joint supervision of Merritt and Labinger for Biology and Spanish Major) download pdf file
   

Toxicology

• Using Earthworms in Toxicology: An Assessment of Lethality Using Zinc, Eric Rivera, May 15, 1994
• Toxicity of Selenite in Earthworms, Lani S. Margolin, May 19, 1995

Parasitology

• Whirling Disease in Salmonids, Mark Laurence Shiu, December 15, 1997

Animal Behavior

• Olfactory Avoidance Conditioning in Drosophila, Jonathan M. Brown, May 9, 1994
   

Gene Regulation

• Extensive Methylation of p15 in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients, Jerome Garcia, May 15, 1998 (Research was done in Dr. Bernard Futscher’s Univ of Arizona lab.)