Outreach

As a part of a Land-Grant university the Center is committed to outreach, education, and service. The Center has developed outreach programming and resources to serve various clientele including local stakeholders in a specific watershed, state and federal agency staff, TMDL developers, and extension and research professionals. Much of the Center’s outreach programming deals with education about watershed simulation models.

A new, enhanced version of the Bacteria Source Load Calculator (BSLC) software is now available, along with a recently published user’s manual. The BSLC, developed by staff at the Center for TMDL and Watershed Studies, is designed to simplify the complex and time-consuming work involved in determining bacterial loadings necessary for input into many non-point source models including the Hydrological Simulation Program–Fortran model (HSPF). With new program features, such as allowing users to define in-stream defecation for specific days and species, BSLC users can more easily and accurately characterize the bacterial loads in watersheds.

Download version 2.1 of the BSLC and New user's guide