Armand Ruby has made presentations to a wide variety of audiences in many different settings. The following is a representative sampling of recent presentations on water quality topics delivered to professional audiences.
CASQA Conference 2010 Source Control 101 – In-Depth Approach (1.4MB PDF)
Stevens & Permanente Creeks Watershed Council 2009 Pesticides, Toxicity and Stewardship in Urban Creeks (3.3MB PDF)
CASQA Conference 2009 Accentuating the Positive – Fostering Stewardship in Urban Watersheds (1MB PDF)
Sixth International IPM Symposium, 2009 Widespread Impacts of Pyrethroids in California Urban Surface Waters (512K PDF)
CASQA Conference 2008 Five Decades After Silent Spring (2.7MB PDF)
California Aquatic Bioassessment Workgroup (CABW) 2008 Comparison of Results of Reach-wide Benthos (RWB) vs. Targeted Riffle Composite (TRC) Method for Collection of Benthic Macroinvertebrates (1MB PDF)
CASQA Conference 2007 Pesticides, Stormwater, and the Regulatory Merry-Go-Round (2.4MB PDF)
CASQA Conference 2006 Targeting the Pollutants – How and Why Stormwater Monitoring and Management Must Change to Meet the MEP Standard (308K PDF)
California Non-Point Source Conference 2005 Water Quality in the Yolo Bypass (1.4MB PDF)
CASQA Conference 2005 Life After Diazinon: What's New for Urban Creeks? (121K PDF)
CWEA Northern Regional Training Conference 2004 TMDLs and Municipal Stormwater Programs – the Next Big Challenge (866K PDF)
StormCon 2004 Removal of Organic Compounds in Dry Detention Basins (1.9MB PDF)
StormCon 2003 Advanced Stormwater Monitoring (485K PDF)
StormCon 2002 Prioritizing POCs as the Key to MEP in Urban Watersheds (text only) (73K PDF)
SWQTF 2002 Monitoring and Research Agenda, California Stormwater Quality Task Force (394K PDF)
WEF Watershed 2002 A Comprehensive Long-Term Monitoring and Assessment Plan for the San Francisquito Creek Watershed (3.5MB PDF)