Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database with full text articles. It's a good source for articles about research studies similar to the ones you're conducting in the Environmental Science Lab. You will want to find primary literature, which means articles that describe one study that was done by the authors. Here are the steps to find the articles:

Step 1. Use the link above to go to Academic Search Complete. If you're off campus, you'll be asked to enter your EUID and password.

Step 2. Do a Basic Search with any of the following search statements: [trinity river and texas], [trinity river and watershed], [trinity river and soil], [trinity river and water quality], [watershed and toxicology and united states].

Step 3. If you get more than 25 results, narrow down your search. Refine your results to Scholarly Journals only and the last 10 years, then Update the results.

Step 4. Now browse through the articles. Click on a title to read the abstract (summary) of the article and see if it's similar to your study.

Step 5. To get the full text article, select the PDF Full Text or the green Find It button under the article's entry on the results page.

Here are some research articles (primary sources) containing studies similar to those you are conducting at LLELA.

Anderson, B., Hunt, J., Phillips, B., Thompson, B., Lowe, S., Taberski, K., & Scott Carr, R. (2007). Patterns and trends in sediment toxicity in the San Francisco Estuary. Environmental Research, 105(1), 145-155. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2006.07.005

Hudak, P. F., & Banks, K. E. (2006). Compositions of first flush and composite storm water runoff in small urban and rural watersheds, North-Central Texas. Urban Water Journal, 3(1), 43-49. doi:10.1080/15730620600578678

Hung, C., Warnken, K. W., & Santschi, P. H. (2005). A seasonal survey of carbohydrates and uronic acids in the Trinity River, Texas. Organic Geochemistry, 36(3), 463-474. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2004.09.004

Slye, J. L., Kennedy, J. H., Johnson, D. R., Atkinson, S. F., Dyer, S. D., Ciarlo, M., . . . Price, B. B. (2011). Relationships between benthic macroinvertebrate community structure and geospatial habitat, in-stream water chemistry, and surfactants in the effluent-dominated Trinity River, Texas, USA. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, 30(5), 1127-1138. doi:10.1002/etc.483

Warnken, K. W., Gill, G. A., Dellapenna, T. M., Lehman, R. D., Harper, D. E., & Allison, M. A. (2003). The effects of shrimp trawling on sediment oxygen consumption and the fluxes of trace metals and nutrients from estuarine sediments. Estuarine Coastal & Shelf Science, 57(1), 25. doi:10.1016/S0272-7714(02)00316-5

Wen, L., Warnken, K. W., & Santschi, P. H. (2008). The role of organic carbon, iron, and aluminium oxyhydroxides as trace metal carriers: Comparison between the Trinity River and the Trinity River Estuary (Galveston Bay, Texas). Marine Chemistry, 112(1), 20-37. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2008.06.003

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