The cycling of toxic organic substances in the Great Lakes ecosystem : first semiannual progress report to the Office of Marine Pollution Assessment, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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The cycling of toxic organic substances in the Great Lakes ecosystem : first semiannual progress report to the Office of Marine Pollution Assessment, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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Corporate Authors:

Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. ; University of Michigan. ; United States. Office of Marine Pollution Assessment.
NOAA Program & Office:

OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GLERL (Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory) ; NOS (National Ocean Service) ; ORR (Office of Response and Restoration)
Description:

The Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), with the support of NOAA's Office of Marine Pollution Assessment (OMPA) has initiated a program on the cycling, transport and fate of toxic organic compounds in the Great Lakes. Our objective is to improve our knowledge of where selected contaminants are within the ecosystem, what their expected residence time in any location or phase will be, how rapidly and into what they will decompose and where they will finally reside under conditions of long-term low-level leakage into the environment or a major loading from some point source. This information is critical for toxicologists, ecologists and resource managers to evaluate the potential impacts of particular materials introduced into the Great Lakes region. In the final analysis environmental resource management comes down to a trade off between "acceptable risks" and "unacceptable costs" and best judgments leading to a suitable balance can only be achieved if the information base is sound.
Keywords:

Lakes Organic Water Pollutants Organic Water Pollutants
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Non-series Report
Place as Subject:

Great Lakes Region (North America)
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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CC0 Public Domain
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