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Report on the Session
Session III part 1 involved seven verbal presentations and was attended by more than 100 delegates. Six points were considered of key importance by...
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Monitoring bio-available marine contaminants with mussels (Mytilus edulis L) in the Netherlands
After discussing the usefulness of mussels (e.g. Mytilus edulis ) for investigating contamination in the marine environment, four cases are presented:
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Management of Radioactive Wastes
Radioactivity has always been with us. However, humankind was not aware of it until recently, primarily because there were no means to measure it. In...
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Sewage Sludge Leachate Assimilation Capacity
The five million tons of municipal sewage sludge generated each year in the U.S. are expected to nearly double as soon as secondary treatment of...
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Special Characteristics of Estuaries
Estuaries are characterized by the gradient of salinity in a semi-enclosed coastal system. A working classification for drowned river estuaries has...
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Radionuclide distribution in olympic national park, Washington
A survey of radionuclides in air, precipitation, streams, sediments, soils, and selected plants was conducted in the Olympic National Park,...
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Pesticide Residues in Aquatic Invertebrates
The basic processes governing formation of pesticide residues are common to all organisms. Separate consideration of residues in aquatic...
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Bioactive compounds in the aquatic environment: Uptake and loss of DDT and dieldrin by freshwater mussels
Freshwater mussels were exposed to several concentrations of DDT [1, 1, 1-trichloro-2, 2-bis-( p -chlorophenyl) ethane] and HEOD (1, 2, 3, 4, 10,...
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Pesticide Residues in Food
Man suffers vicariously from the effects of pesticides on other animal species, but is considerably more directly concerned with threats to the...