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Description:
Title:
An Assessment of Chemical Contaminants in the Waters Around Cocos Island, Guam Using Polyethylene Passive Water Samplers (NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 261)
Alternate Title:
An Assessment of Chemical Contaminants in the Waters Around Cocos Island, Guam Using Polyethylene Passive Water Samplers.
Author(s):
Pait, Anthony S.
Mason, Andrew L.
Hartwell, S. Ian
Apeti, Dennis A.
United States, National Ocean Service
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (U.S.)
United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
Corporate Name:
United States, National Ocean Service
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (U.S.)
United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
Dates of Publication:
2019
Abstract:
This report summarizes the results from a project led by NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) with local partners, and with funding from NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP). The objective was to characterize chemical contaminants in the water column around Cocos Island in Cocos Lagoon, Guam, using an array of passive water samplers. The work was a follow-up from a project in 2015 to characterize chemical contaminants in sediments and fish in Cocos Lagoon, in which low levels of contaminants were found in sediments, while fish collected adjacent to Cocos Island contained elevated, in some cases highly elevated levels of PCBs and DDT.
Keywords:
DDT (Insecticide)
Effect of sediments on
Fishes
Methoxychlor
Pollutants
Polychlorinated biphenyls
Report writing
Samples
Place Keywords:
Cocos Island (Costa Rica)
Cocos Lagoon, Guam
Local Corporate Name:
NOS (National Ocean Service)
NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science)
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Type of Resource:
Technical Memorandum
Genre:
NOAA technical memorandum NOS NCCOS ; 261
Note:
This report summarizes the results from a project led by NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) with local partners, and with funding from NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP). The objective was to characterize chemical contaminants in the water column around Cocos Island in Cocos Lagoon, Guam, using an array of passive water samplers. The work was a follow-up from a project in 2015 to characterize chemical contaminants in sediments and fish in Cocos Lagoon, in which low levels of contaminants were found in sediments, while fish collected adjacent to Cocos Island contained elevated, in some cases highly elevated levels of PCBs and DDT.
2019
NOS (National Ocean Service)
NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science)
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Submitted
https://doi.org/10.25923/0bvz-p335
CRCP Project ID ; 31181
Public Domain
1936
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