Author: Howard EssigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquatic animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Assessment of Waukegan Harbor Macroinvertebrates
Author: Howard EssigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquatic animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Waukegan Harbor Remedial Action Plan
Author: Assessment of the Ecotoxicological Hazard of Sediments in Waukegan Harbor, Illinois
Author: Sediment Toxicity Assessment
Author: G.Allen BurtonPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351093452
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Sediment Toxicity Assessment provides the latest information regarding how to evaluate sediment contamination and its effects on aquatic ecosystems. It presents an integrated ecosystem approach by detailing effective assessment methods, considerations, and effects to each major component of marine and freshwater systems, including the benthos, plankton, and fish communities. The approaches emphasize defining habitat conditions (physical and chemical), toxicant bioavailability, factors influencing toxicity (lab and field), biomarkers, acute and chronic toxicity, study design, collection methods, and EPA management strategies. The book also explains how to integrate the assessments. Sediment Toxicity Assessment will be useful to to all environmental managers, environmental scientists, ecotoxicologists, environmental regulators, aquatic ecologists, environmental contractors and consultants, instructors, students, conservation commissions, and environmental activist organizations.
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Microscale Testing in Aquatic Toxicology
Author: Peter G. WellsPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351431455
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Bioassays are among the ecotoxicologist's most effective weapons in the evaluation of water quality and the assessment of ecological impacts of effluents, chemicals, discharges, and emissions on the aquatic environment. Information on these assessment aids is needed throughout the international scientific and environmental management community. This comprehensive reference provides an excellent overview of the small-scale aquatic bioassay techniques and applications currently in use around the world. This special volume is the result of several years of collaboration between Environment Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Internationally recognized research scientists at many institutions have contributed to this state-of-the-art examination of the exciting, environmentally important field of microscale testing in aquatic toxicology. Microscale Testing in Aquatic Toxicology contains over forty chapters covering relevant principles, new techniques and recent advancements, and applications in scientific research, environmental management, academia, and the private sector.
EPA Publications Bibliography
Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Proceedings of the Technology Transfer Symposium for the Remediation of Contaminated Sediments in the Great Lakes Basin
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contaminated sediments
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
EPA Publications Bibliography
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Sediment Dredging at Superfund Megasites
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309134102
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Some of the nation's estuaries, lakes and other water bodies contain contaminated sediments that can adversely affect fish and wildlife and may then find their way into people's diets. Dredging is one of the few options available for attempting to clean up contaminated sediments, but it can uncover and re-suspend buried contaminants, creating additional exposures for wildlife and people. At the request of Congress, EPA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to evaluate dredging as a cleanup technique. The book finds that, based on a review of available evidence, dredging's ability to decrease environmental and health risks is still an open question. Analysis of pre-dredging and post-dredging at about 20 sites found a wide range of outcomes in terms of surface sediment concentrations of contaminants: some sites showed increases, some no change, and some decreases in concentrations. Evaluating the potential long-term benefits of dredging will require that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency step up monitoring activities before, during and after individual cleanups to determine whether it is working there and what combinations of techniques are most effective.