Description
Mussel Watch represents the longest running continuous contaminant monitoring program in U.S. coastal and Great Lakes waters and was created in response to concerns over environmental quality of the Nation's coastal and estuarine ecosystems. This project analyzes chemical and biological contaminant trends in sediment and bivalve tissue collected at over 280 coastal sites from 1986 to present. Parameters monitored include sediment and bivalve tissue chemistry for over 100 organic and inorganic contaminants; bivalve histology; and Clostridium perfringens (pathogen) concentrations. This project regularly quantifies PAHs, PCBs, chlorinated pesticides including DDT and its metabolites, TBT and its metabolites, and trace elements.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Resource | Unknown | Open resource |
Tags
- alaska
- atlantic ocean
- bivalve mollusks
- butyltins
- caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
- central pacific ocean
- chemical contaminants
- coastal ecosystem science
- coastal monitoring
- contaminants
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- detection limits
- earth science
- east coast
- environmental impacts
- environmental monitoring
- florida
- gonadal index
- great lakes
- gulf coast
- hawaii
- hawaii (21n160w0000)
- hawaiian islands
- histopathology
- human dimensions
- inorganic and organic analytes
- mercury
- metals
- mhi
- mussels
- north atlantic ocean
- nsandt
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- organochlorines
- oysters
- pacific ocean
- pah
- pcb
- pesticides
- polychlorinated biphenyls
- polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- pr
- puerto rico
- puerto rico (18n066w0000)
- sediment
- tbt
- trace elements
- united states
- united states of america
- west coast