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Air Resources Board. California Environmental Protection Agency. Health Impacts of Coarse Particulate Matter 2007.  

ARB (California Air Resources Board). 2006c. 2004 California Toxics Inventory. Salton Sea Air Basin. Toxic

Air Quality Management Plan. Future Air Quality- Desert Nonattainment Areas.

Barnum, D.A., et al., 2004. Salton Sea as important waterfowl habitat in the pacific flyway. Studies in Avian Biology. 27, 100-105.

Barrows, C.W. et al., 2007. Community complexity: Stratifying monitoring schemes within a desert sand dune landscape. Journal of Arid Environments, 69, 315-330.

Barrows, C.W., 2006. Population dynamics of a threatened sand dune [fringed-toed] lizard. Southwestern Naturalist, 51 (4), 514-523.

Barrows, C.W., 2005. A framework for monitoring multiple-species conservation plans. Journal of Wildlife Management, 69 (4), 1333-1345.

California Resources Agency. Salton Sea Ecosystem Restoration Program. Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Report. January 26, 2007. PDC' Electronic Library also has this report on CD in room RG-111.

Carmichael WW, Li R. 2006. Cyanobacteria toxins in the Salton Sea. Saline Systems, 19, (2), 5.

Carpio-Obeso MP, et al., 1999. Desert ecosystems: Similarities, characteristics, and health benefits. Review of Environmental Health, 14, 257-267.
 
City of Palm Desert Air Quality Element, Comprehensive General Plan. 2004

Coachella Valley Health Statistics, East Valley Region 1

Cone, L.A. 2006. Q fever in the Southern California desert: Epidemiology, clinical presentation, and treatment. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 75(1), 29-32.
 
Delfino, R.J., et al. 2004. Association of fev1 in asthmatic children with personal and microenvironmental exposure to airborne particulate matter. Environmental Health Perspective, 112(8):932-41

Delfino, R.J., et al. 2003. Asthma symptoms in Hispanic children and daily ambient exposures to toxic and criteria air pollutants. Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(4): 647–656.

Delfino, R.J., et al. 2002. Association of asthma symptoms with peak particulate air pollution and effect modification by anti-inflammatory medication use. Environ Health Perspectives. 110(10):A607–A617.

Geller, M., et al. 2002. Environmental_Indoor/outdoor relationship and chemical composition of fine and coarse particles in the Southern California Desert. Atmospheric Environment 36 (2002) 1099–1110.
 
Gordon 1999. Poison in the fields: the United Farm Workers, pesticides, and environmental politics. Pacific Historical Review. 68 (1). 51-77.
 
Keen, M. 1990. Farming the wind. Environmental Action, 22(2), 29.
 
Kilburn, K. 1995. Growing up exposed: Adult manifestations of protracted childhood insecticide exposure. Archives of Environmental Health, 50(5), 391-392.
 
Krieger, R, Dinoff, T. 2000. Malathion deposition, metabolite clearance, and cholinesterase status of date dusters and
harvesters in California. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 38(4), 546-553.
 
Lipsett, M., et al. 2006. Coarse Particles and heart rate variability among older adults with coronary artery disease in the Coachella Valley, California. Environmental Health Perspectives, 114(8), 1215-1220.

Ma'or Z, et al., 2006. Antimicrobial properties of Dead Sea black mineral mud., International Journal of Dermatology, 45(5):504-11.

Oikos, Volume 102, Issue 3, Page 614-622.

Ostro BD, et al. 2000. Coarse and fine particles and daily mortality in the Coachella Valley, California: a follow-up study. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 10, 412-419.
    

Ostro BD., et al., 1999. Air pollution and daily mortality in the Coachella Valley California: a study of PM[sub10] dominated by coarse particles. Environmental Research, 81, 231-238.

Proksch E, et al., 2005, Bathing in a magnesium-rich Dead Sea salt solution improves skin barrier function, enhances skin hydration, and reduces inflammation in atopic dry skin. International Journal of Dermatology, 44 (2):151-7.

Reisen, W,. et al., 2004. West Nile Virus in California. Emerging Infectious Diseases 10(8):1369-1378.

Sapozhnikova,Y, et al. 2004. Pesticides and PCBs in sediments and fish from the Salton Sea, California, USA. Chemosphere, 55(6), 797-809.

Schwarze, P.E., et al.. 2006. Particulate matter properties and health effects: consistency of epidemiological and toxicological studies. Human and Experimental Toxicology, 10 2006; vol. 25: pp. 559 - 579.

Shigley, P. 2006. Twelve Years and Two Billion Bucks. (Cover story). Planning, 72(8), 26-29.

South Coast Air Quality Management District. 2003 Coachella Valley PM10 State Implementation Plan.

Wallender, W.W.,et al. (2006). Water flow and salt transport in cracking clay soils of the Imperial Valley, California

Wallender, W.W. ,et al.  (2006). Drip irrigation water and salt flow model for table grapes in Coachella Valley, California.

 
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LeBlanc, L.A., et al. 2001-2002. Occurrence, Distribution and Transport of Pesticides, Trace Elements and Selected Inorganic Constituents into the Salton Sea Basin, California.

Cohen, M.J. ,et al. 1999. Haven or Hazard: The Ecology and Future of the Salton Sea. Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security.

Mian, L.S.2002. Environmental Quality Paradigm. CSUSB_CUP. California Environmental Health Association Volume 1, Issue 2 Winter 2002.

Griffiths, P.G., et al. 2002. Long-term Sand Supply to Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard Habitat in the Northern Coachella Valley, California. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.

 
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