National Status and Trends: Mussel Watch Project
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.
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Tags
- human dimensions
- alaska
- united states of america
- oysters
- pcb
- east coast
- mercury
- west coast
- puerto rico (18n066w0000)
- mhi
- polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- environmental monitoring
- united states
- numeric data sets
- hawaii
- coastal monitoring
- atlantic ocean
- tbt
- hawaii (21n160w0000)
- earth science
- environmental impacts
- metals
- pah
- hawaiian islands
- bivalve mollusks
- butyltins
- sediment
- pesticides
- trace elements
- polychlorinated biphenyls
- central pacific ocean
- florida
- pr
- ocean basin
- caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
- organochlorines
- chemical contaminants
- nsandt
- puerto rico
- coris_metadata
- north atlantic ocean
- pacific ocean
- coastal ecosystem science
- country/territory
- great lakes
- inorganic and organic analytes
- histopathology
- detection limits
- gonadal index
- contaminants
- mussels
- gulf coast