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This symposium, organized under a U.S.-U.S.S.R. Environmental Agreement (Project 02.06-21), focuses on the impact of chemical pollution on the world's oceans. Soviet and American specialists discuss the fate of heavy metals in estuaries and the Gulf of Mexico; transport of natura...

Platform presentation at a scientific meeting

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) is developing tools for predicting risks of multiple stressors to wildlife populations, which support the development of risk-based protective criteria. NHEERL's res...

Residues of metals, PCBs, and pesticides were measured in whole bodies of fish from small coastal estuaries in Washington, Oregon and California as well as Puget Sound, Columbia and San Francisco Bay. This effort was a component of EPA's Western Coastal Environmental Monitoring ...

In the 30 years since the passage of the Clean Water Act, Congress, the American Public and other interest parties have been asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to describe the condition of the waters in the U.S. They want to know if there is a problem, how big the pr...

Toxic contaminants are one of the most pressing environmental concerns in the Lake Superior Basin. The "Binational Program to Protect and Restore the Lake Superior Basin," a U.S. and Canadian governmental effort established to address this concern, has initially identified nine c...

Modeling associated with the Lake Michigan Mass Balance Project (LMMBP) is being conducted using WASP-type water quality models to gain a better understanding of the ecosystem transport and fate of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), atrazine, mercury, and trans-nonachlor in Lake M...

Mr. Rygwelski will present the results of a screening model to address the sources, transport, and fate of mercury from the Lake Michigan Mass Balance Study. The Lake Michigan Mass Balance Study is being spearheaded by the USEPA Great Lakes National Program Office, Region V, and ...

A simple, rapid, and inexpensive anodic stripping voltammetric method with a mercury thin film electrode is reported for the establishment of baseline concentrations of cadmium, lead, and copper in natural waters. The procedure for routine surface preparation of wax-impregnated g...

During the past 150 years, the mining indstry discharged more than a billion tons of tailings along Lake Superior shorelines and constructed numerous smelters in the watershed. Given the vast size of Lake Superior, were sediment profiles at locations far offshore impacted by near...

<br>In the central nervous system from embryogenesis through senescence, cell number is regulated, in part, by apoptosis. Each region of the nervous system has a characteristic temporal pattern of programmed cell death, which includes far greater numbers of cells undergoing apop...

As part of the Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Atlantic Ecology Division (AED, Narragansett, RI) is developing methods to assess the risks of anthropogenic str...

The Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project (WACAP) was initiated in 2002 by the National Park Service to determine if airborne contaminants were having an impact on remote western ecosystems. Multiple sample media (snow, water, sediment, fish and terrestrial vegetation...

The principal research objective is develop assessment methodology that can be used to report on the condition of the Great Rivers and Great Lakes that can be used for state's reporting conditions under Section 303(b) of the CWA. One component of Great River research will determ...

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The toxicity of mercury is well documented and has led to laws and regulations governing its use and disposal; however mercury contamination of coastal and estuarine biota continues to be of public concern. The U.S. EPA Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program provided da...

This study determined the trophic position and the total mercury concentrations of snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) captured from 26 freshwater sites in Rhode Island. Turtles were captured in baited wire cages, and a non-lethal sampling technique was used in which tips of ...

Exposure to contaminated soil and dust is an important pathway in human and ecological risk assessment and often is the "risk-driver" for metal contaminated soil. Site-specific soil physical and chemical characteristics, as well as biological factors, determine the bioavailabilit...

The statistical relationship between total mercury (Hg) concentration in clips from the caudal fin and muscle tissue of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) from 26 freshwater sites in Rhode Island, USA was developed and evaluated to determine the utility of fin clip analysis ...

Abstract for poster presentation: A number of regions in Kazakhstan are contaminated with soluble mercury originating from industrial sources. A chlor-alkali plant that operated from 1970-1990 caused contamination of ground water near a northern suburb of Pavlodar city. The plume...

In the last three years, mercury contamination in North Mississippi flood control reservoirs has become a growing concern. Previous data indicate that three flood control reservoirs have similar total mercury sediment concentrations and that fish collected from one reservoir cont...

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The (13)C shieldings and (13)C-(199)Hg coupling constants of fourteen phenyl- and seven alkyl- and alkenyl-mercury compounds have been obtained. Substituent effects on the (13)C shieldings are similar to those in nonmercurated phenyl compounds, with a similar relationship between...

The increasing density of golf courses represents a potential source of contamination to nearby coastal areas, the chemical and biological magnitude of which is almost unknown. The objective of this study was to compare the concentrations of contaminants and toxicities of sedime...