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Bibliography for the Inorganic Blind Sample Project

Online Reports:
Quality-Assurance Results for Routine Water Analysis in U.S. Geological Survey Laboratories, Water Year 1998: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4176

Quality-Assurance Results for Routine Water Analysis in U.S. Geological Survey Laboratories, Water Year 1997: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4057

Data from Selected U.S. Geological Survey National Stream Water-Quality Monitoring Networks (WQN): USGS Digital Data Series DDS-37

Data from Selected U.S. Geological Survey National Stream Water-Quality Monitoring Networks (WQN) on CD-ROM: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-337

Monthly QADATA Summary Listing

Inorganic Blind Sample Project Fact Sheet 136-97
Annual Reports:
Ludtke, A.S., Woodworth, M.T., Marsh, P.S., 2000, Quality-Assurance Results for Routine Water Analysis in U.S. Geological Survey Laboratories, Water Year 1998: U.S Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4176.

Ludtke, A.S., Woodworth, M.T., Marsh, P.S., 1999, Quality-Assurance Results for Routine Water Analysis in U.S. Geological Survey Laboratories, Water Year 1997: U.S Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4057.

----1994, Quality-Assurance Results for Routine Water Analysis in U.S. Geological Survey Laboratories, Water Year 1991: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4046.

----1993a, Quality-assurance data for the routine water analysis in the laboratories of the U.S. Geological Survey for water year 1990: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4082, 145p.

Maloney, T.J., Ludtke, A.S., Krizman, T.L., 1992, Quality-assurance data for routine water analysis in the National Water Quality Laboratory of the U.S. Geological Survey for water year 1989: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-4075, 99 p.

Lucey, K.J., 1989, Quality-assurance data for routine water analysis in the National Water Quality Laboratory of the U.S. Geological Survey for water year 1988: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 89-4166, 96 p.

----1989b, Quality-assurance data for routine water analysis in the laboratories of the U.S. Geological Survey for water year 1987: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 89-4049, 90 p.

----1989a, Quality-assurance data for routine water analysis in the laboratories of the U.S. Geological Survey for water year 1986: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 89-4009, 145 p.

Lucey, K.J., and Peart, D.B., 1988, Quality-Assurance data for routine water analysis in the laboratories of the U.S. Geological Survey for water year 1985: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 88-4109, 121 p.

Peart, D.B., and Sutphin, H.B., 1987, Quality-assurance data for routine water analysis in the laboratories of the U.S. Geological Survey for water year 1984: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4077, 125 p.

----1984, Quality-assurance data for routine water analysis in the laboratories of the U.S. Geological Survey for water year 1983: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4234, 112 p.

----1983b, Quality-assurance data for routine water analysis in the laboratories of the U.S. Geological Survey for water year 1982: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4264, 112 p.

Peart, D.B., and Thomas, Nancy, 1983a, Quality-assurance data for routine water analysis in the laboratories of the U.S. Geological Survey 1981 annual report: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4090, 112 p.
Other Reports:
Alexander, Richard B., Slack, James R., Ludtke, Amy S., Fitzgerald, Kathleen K., and Schertz, Terry L., Data from Selected U.S. Geological Survey National Stream Water-Quality Monitoring Networks (WQN): USGS Digital Data Series DDS-37, CD-ROM

Alexander, Richard B., Ludtke, Amy S., Fitzgerald, Kathleen K., and Schertz, Terry L., Data from Selected U.S. Geological Survey National Stream Water-Quality Monitoring Networks (WQN) on CD-ROM: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-337, 79 p.

Lucey, K.J., 1990, QADATA user's manual -- An interactive computer program for the retrieval and analysis of the results from the external blind sample quality-assurance project of the U.S. Geological Survey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-162, 53 p.

Maloney, Thomas, J., Shockey, Merle, W., Cast, Mary, E., and Watterson, C., Ann, 1991 Coordination of quality-assurance and quality-control programs at the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Quality Laboratory: Abstract of presentation made at 1991 Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry.

Friedman, L.C., Bradford, W.L., and Peart, D.B., 1983, Application of binomial distributions to quality-assurance of quantitative chemical analyses: Journal of Environmental Science and Health, v. A18, no. 4, p. 561-570.

For further information, contact:

Inorganic Blind Sample Project Chief (struzesk@usgs.gov)
U.S. Geological Survey
Denver Federal Center
Mail Stop 401, Box 25046
Denver, CO 80225
303.236.1872


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