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British Microbial Biodiversity Association - BMBA aims to provide a linkage between Universities/bioindustries to promote investigation, preservation and rational exploitation of global microbial biodiversity.
University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database - This database contains information on microbial biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways for primarily xenobiotic, chemical compounds.
Wastewater Solutions is an environmental microbiology firm that works with wastewater treatment professionals to design new biotreatment systems or enhance current operations.
Water Microbiology External Quality Assessment Scheme - Water quality assessment schemes providing distributions for Indicator organisms, Cryptosporidium, Legionella and Viruses in water.

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.