Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Program 2004 in the Southeastern United States: Mobile, Apalachicola, Savannah, and Pee Dee River Basins.
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- Originator: US Geological Survey
- Publication_Date: 2006
- Title:
- Publication_Date: 2006
- Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Program 2004 in the Southeastern United States: Mobile, Apalachicola, Savannah, and Pee Dee River Basins.
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place:
- USGS-Columbia Environmental Resarch Center (CERC); Columbia, MO, USA.
- Publisher: USGS-CERC
- Online_Linkage: http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/pubs/pubs.htm
- Originator: US Geological Survey
- Description:
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- Abstract:
- The Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Program is designed to identify and understand the effects of environmental contaminants on biological resources, particularly those resources under the stewardship of the Department of the Interior (DOI). BEST provides sound scientific information to be used proactively to prevent or limit contaminant-related effects on biological resources. The primary goals of BEST are to: (1) determine the status and trends of environmental contaminants and their effects on biological resources, (2) identify, assess and predict the effects of contaminants on ecosystems and biological populations, and (3) provide summary information in a timely manner to managers and the public for guiding conservation efforts. To address these goals, BEST will use different approaches, involving a combination of field biomonitoring methods and information assessment tools, for examining contaminant issues at the national, regional, and local levels. Fish (primarily common carp, Cyprinus carpio, and largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides) were sampled from a total of 14 stations in the Mobile, Apalachicola, Savannah and Pee Dee drainages by FWS and USGS personnel during October-December 2004. Together, the array of sites, analyses, and assays will provide a synoptic overview of the current distribution of a wide variety of contaminants and their effects on fish in much of the Mobile, Apalachicola, Savannah, and Pee Dee drainages, in addition to evaluating the feasibility and performance of using new methods together in a testing battery.
- Purpose:
- The objectives of this BEST Southeastern U.S River basins system project are: 1. To document the distribution of contaminants in the Mobile, Apalachicola, Savannah, and Pee Dee River systems and determine the potential of these contaminants to affect aquatic organisms. 2. To test the logistical feasibility of implementing an investigation incorporating multiple lines of evidence on a large geographic scale through partnerships with other agencies. This study was designed to be implemented as a partnership between USGS and other agencies, most notably FWS. 3. To further quantitatively evaluate the performance of indicators selected for use in aquatic habitats by the BEST program. The precision of some indicators has not been well characterized.
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- Calendar_Date: 20041001
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- Stations sampled during fall of 2004, however data is continually generated and analyzed.
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
- Progress: Complete
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- Description_of_Geographic_Extent:
- Southeastern United States (Mobile, Apalachicola, Savannah, and Pee Dee River Basins)
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -89.57889
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -78.195
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 36.57861
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 29.76306
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -78.195
- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -89.57889
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- Theme_Keyword: BEST Program
- Theme_Keyword: Mobile River Basin
- Theme_Keyword: Apalachicola River Basin
- Theme_Keyword: Savannah River Basin
- Theme_Keyword: Pee Dee River Basin
- Theme_Keyword: contaminants
- Theme_Keyword: biomonitoring
- Theme_Keyword: BEST Program
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Place_Keyword: Tombigbee River
- Place_Keyword: Coosa River
- Place_Keyword: Alabama River
- Place_Keyword: Mobile River
- Place_Keyword: Chattahootchee River
- Place_Keyword: Flint River
- Place_Keyword: Apalachicola River
- Place_Keyword: Savannah River
- Place_Keyword: Pee Dee River
- Place_Keyword: United States
- Place_Keyword: USA
- Place_Keyword: Tombigbee River
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- Taxonomic_Keywords:
- 168160: LMBS-Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
- Taxonomic_Keywords: 163344: CARP-Common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
- Taxonomic_Keywords: 163959:SSUK-Spotted sucker (Minytrema melanops)
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- Taxonomic_Keywords: 163959:SSUK-Spotted sucker (Minytrema melanops)
- 163894: LNSK-Longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus)
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- Division-Phylum: Phylum-Chordata, Subphylum-Vertebrata
- Superclass-Osteichthyes, Class-Actinoptergii, Infraclass-Teleostei
- Kingdom: Animal
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Jo Ellen Hinck
- Contact_Organization: Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC)
- Contact_Person: Jo Ellen Hinck
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 4200 New Haven Road
- City: Columbia
- State_or_Province: Missouri
- Postal_Code: 65201
- Country: USA
- Address: 4200 New Haven Road
- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 573-876-1808
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 573-876-1896
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jhinck@usgs.gov
- Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday Through Friday
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 573-876-1896
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- US Department of the Interior, Biological Rsrouces Division - USGS (formerly NBS). 530pp
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- Originator: Schmitt CJ (ed.)
- Publication_Date: 20020600
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- Publication_Date: 20020600
- Biomontoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) program: Environmental contaminants and their effects on fish in the MIssissippi River Basin. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR 2002-0004. Columbia, MO. 217 pp.
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- Publication_Place: Columbia, Missouri
- Publisher: USGS-CERC
- Publication_Place: Columbia, Missouri
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- Originator: Schmitt CJ (ed.)
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- Schmitt CJ, GM Dethloff, JE Hinck, TM Bartish, VS Blazer, JJ Coyle, ND Denslow, and DE Tillitt
- Publication_Date: 2004
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- Biomontoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Program: environmental contaminants and their effects on fish in the Rio Grande Basin. US Geological Survey, Scientific Investigations Report USGS/SIR/2004-5108. 117 pp.
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- Hinck JE, CJ Schmitt, TM Bartish, ND Denslow, VS Blazer, PJ Anderson, JJ Coyle, GM Dethloff, and DE Tillitt
- Publication_Date: 2004
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- Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Program: Environmental contaminants and their effects on fish in the Columbia River Basin. US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report USGS/SIR 2004-5154. 125 pp.
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- Hinck JE, TM Bartish, VS Blazer, ND Denslow, TS Gross, MS Myers, PJ Anderson, CE Orazio, and DE Tillitt
- Publication_Date: 2004
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- Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Program: Environmental contaminants and their effects on fish in the Yukon River Basin. US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report USGS/SIR 2004-5285. 87 pp.
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- US Department of the Interior, US Geological Survey
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- Analyses of composite fish samples for organochlorine chemical reisdues and elemental contaminants were performed by environmental chemistry laboratories of the Columbia Environmental Research Center of the USGS. Precision and accuracy of contract laboratory results were confirmed through analyses of procedural blanks, triplicated samples, test recoveries of spiked materials, and reference material analyses. Thie identities of organochlorine residues were confirmed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry in about 10% of the samples. In keeping with past NCBP (Schmitt 1999), analytical results were not adjusted to reflect spike recoveries or moisture loss during storage. EROD assays and analyses of composites fish extracts for TCDD-Eq with the H4IIE rat hepatoma cell bioassay (Tillit et al. 1989) were performed at the USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC), Columbia, MO. Details of the laboratory methods inlcuding Q/A and Q/C measures are described in Hinck et. al. 2004 (Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Program: Environmental contaminants and their effects on fish in the Yukon River Basin).
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- Originator: Schmitt CJ (ed.)
- Publication_Date: 20020600
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- Biomontoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) program: Environmental contaminants and their effects on fish in the MIssissippi River Basin. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR 2002-0004. Columbia, MO. 217 pp.
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- Originator: Schmitt CJ (ed.)
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- Publication_Date: 20020600
- Biomontoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) program: Environmental contaminants and their effects on fish in the MIssissippi River Basin. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR 2002-0004. Columbia, MO. 217 pp.
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- Publication_Place: Columbia, Missouri
- Publisher: USGS-CERC
- Publication_Place: Columbia, Missouri
- Online_Linkage: http:www.cerc.usgs.gov/pubs/pubs.htm
- Originator: Schmitt CJ (ed.)
- Methodology_Type: Field
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- Depending upon the nature of the response vairable (i.e., biomarker), we used three different statistical methods to compare staions and groups of stations. For continous variables (EROD activity, GSI, etc) we used ANOVA to compare biomarker responses among stations within a region. The significance of additional explantory variables (e.g., age, weight, and stage) was also investigated. The actual terms included ina model for testing depended on the biomarker being analyzed. Lacking a larger, more complete dataset, modeling of these additional explantory terms and their interactions could only be carried out on subsets of the data. This approach implicitly assumes that what we found for subsets of the data also held for the entire dataset. Complicance with distributional and other assumptions was evaluated by examining residual plots as well as with formal tests when possible. Data were log (base 10) or rank-transformed as necessary when standard ANOVA assumptions wer not met. For variables measured on composite samples (i.e., concentrations of organochlorine and elemental contaminants and H4IIE bioassay results) Log-transformed concentrations were combined with hostorical NCBP collections and analyzed with a one-way model in which stations, collection years, and taxa were treatments. For small numbers of censored values (<15%), we substituted half the nominal detection limit. For highly censored variables (i.e., most of the organochlorine chemical residues), no formal statistical tests of significance were conducted.
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- Contact_Person: Jo Ellen Hinck
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- RESIDUES: Chemicals measured by GC/ECD (ppm, wet-weight): pentachlorobenzene, hexachlorobenzene, pentachloroanisole, alpha-BHC, beta-BHC, lindane, delta-BHC, heptachlor, heptachlorepoxide, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, oxychlordane, cis-chlordane, trans-chlordane, cis-nonachlor, trans-nonachlor, o,p’-DDE, o,p’-DDD, o,p’-DDT, p,p’-DDE, p,p’-DDD, p,p’-DDT, endosulfan I and II, endosulfate, methoxchlor, mirex, total PCBs, and toxaphene. TCDD-EQ (H4IIE bioassay). Metals measured by ICP-MS (ppm) converted from dry-weight to wet-weight using the % inorganic moisture value: Al (aluminum); Be (beryllium); Cd (cadmium); Cr (chromium); Cu (copper); Fe (iron); Mg (magnesium); Mn (manganese); Mo (molybdenum); Ni (nickel); Pb (lead); V (vanadium); and Z (zinc). Metals measured by AA (ppm), converted from dry-weight to wet-weight using the % inorganic moisture value: As (arsenic) and Se (selenium). Metals measured by thermal combustion, amalgamation, and AA, converted from dry-weight to wet-weight using the % inorganic moisture value: Hg (mercury). FISH HEALTH: River Basin; Station; Species; Taxa; Gender (histologically determined); Age (scale or otolith analysis); Length (Total length in mm); Weight (bwt: body weight in grams); Gross Lesions (score based on external health examination); Gonad Weight (weight to the 0.1 g); Liver Weight (weight to the 0.1 g); Spleen Weight (weight to the 0.002 g); Average EROD activity; Macrophage Aggregate Size (MA-A); Macrophage Aggregate Density (MA-#); MA-% (% tissue occupied by macrophage aggregates); Reproductive Stage; Intersex; Atresia; 17 beta-estradiol (E2); 11-ketotestosterone (11-KT); Vitellogenin (VTG); E/KT Ratio; Health Indices: Hepatosomatic Index (HSI); Gonadosomatic Index (GSI); Splenosomatic Index (SSI); Condition Factor (CF); and Health Assessment Index (HAI).
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- Biomontoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) program: Environmental contaminants and their effects on fish in the MIssissippi River Basin. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR 2002-0004. Columbia, MO. 217 p.
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- Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from a U.S. Geological Survey server, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
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