Publications
Since 1966, CERC scientists have published over 2000 peer reviewed articles and reports. Browse our publications below or search CERC's publications by author or title through the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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Overview of a workshop on screening methods for detecting potential (anti-) estrogenic/androgenic chemicals in wildlife
The U.S. Congress has passed legislation requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) to develop, validate, and implement screening tests for identifying potential endocrine-disrupting chemicals within 3 years. To aid in the identification of methods suitable for this purpose, the U.S. EPA, the Chemical Manufacturers Association, and the World Wildlife Fund sponsored several works
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Gerald T. Ankley, Ellen Mihaich, Ralph G. Stahl, Donald E. Tillitt, Theo Colborn, Suzzanne McMaster, Ron Miller, John Bantle, Pamela Campbell, Nancy Denslow, Richard L. Dickerson, Leroy C. Folmar, Michael Fry, John P. Giesy, L. Earl Gray, Patrick Guiney, Thomas Hutchinson, Sean W. Kennedy, Vincent Kramer, Gerald A. LeBlanc, Monte Mayes, Alison Nimrod, Reynaldo Patiño, Richard Peterson, Richard Purdy, Robert Ringer, Peter C. Thomas, Les Touart, Glen Van Der Kraak, Tim Zacharewski
Environmental toxicology and risk assessment: Seventh volume
This publication, Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Seventh Volume, contains papers presented at the Seventh Symposium on Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Ultraviolet Radiation and the Environment, held 7-9 April, 1997 in St. Louis, MO. The symposium, the 24th in a series on environmental toxicology, was sponsored by Committee E-47. Edward E. Little, of the U.S. Geological Survey/Biolog
Validity of using semipermeable membrane devices for determining aqueous concentrations of freely dissolved PAHs
An in-depth review of the recent contribution to this journal by Gustafson and Dickhut [1] prompts us to share our concerns regarding some of their conclusions. The paper presents data comparing three techniques for determining aqueous concentrations of freely dissolved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) gas sparging, lipid-containing semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) of the U.S. Geologi
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Harry Prest, J. D. Petty, J.N. Huckins
Use of a subsurface plankton layer to benefit a cage-culture fishery in Lake Phewa, Nepal
The Nepalese government and some 225 families in the private sector are engaged in an expanding aquaculture program in lakes Phewa, Begnas and Rupa in the Pokhara Valley, Nepal (Swar & Pradhan 1992). Bighead carp (Aristichthys nobilis) and silver carp (Hypopthalmichthys molitrix) are propagated in hatchery ponds and are raised to market size in mesh enclosures (having sides, tops and bottoms) susp
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Melinda F. Davis, Tek B. Gurung, Bikash Shrestha, Susan B. Jones, Glenn D. Wylie, Bruce D. Perkins, John R. Jones
Riparian-vegetation controls on the spatial pattern of stream-channel instability, Little Piney Creek, Missouri
The role of riparian vegetation is assessed quantitatively by using a five-decade record of valley bottom vegetation and channel dynamics developed from historical aerial photography. A 12-kilometer reach of a typical Ozarks stream was mapped using aerial photographs from 1938, 1948, 1955, 1965, 1976, and 1989; maps were then analyzed in a digital geographic information system. Analysis of sequent
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Robert B. Jacobson, Aaron L. Pugh
Simulating cholinesterase inhibition in birds caused by dietary insecticide exposure
We describe a stochastic simulation model that simulates avian foraging in an agricultural landscape to evaluate factors affecting dietary insecticide exposure and to predict post-exposure cholinesterase (ChE) inhibition. To evaluate the model, we simulated published field studies and found that model predictions of insecticide decay and ChE inhibition reasonably approximated most observed results
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M.S. Corson, M.A. Mora, W.E. Grant
Indices of benthic community tolerance in contaminated Great Lakes sediments: Relations with sediment contaminant concentrations, sediment toxicity, and the sediment quality triad
We evaluated the toxic-units model developed by Wildhaber and Schmitt (1996) as a predictor of indices of mean tolerance to pollution (i.e., Lenat, 1993; Hilsenhoff, 1987) and other benthic community indices from Great Lakes sediments containing complex mixtures of environmental contaminants (e.g., polychlorinated biphenyls – PCBs, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – PAHs, pesticides, chlorinated d
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M. L. Wildhaber, C. J. Schmitt
Comparative sensitivity of five species of macrophytes and six species of algae to atrazine, metribuzin, alachlor, and metolachlor
This study determined the relative sensitivity of five species of aquatic macrophytes and six species of algae to four commonly used herbicides (atrazine, metribuzin, alachlor, and metolachlor). Toxicity tests consisted of 96-h (duckweed and algae) or 14-d (submerged macrophytes) static exposures. The triazine herbicides (atrazine and metribuzin) were significantly more toxic to aquatic plants tha
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James F. Fairchild, Shane Ruessler, A. Ron Carlson
DDE, mercury, and selenium in biota, sediments, and water of the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo Basin, 1965-95
No abstract available.
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M.A. Mora, S.E. Wainwright
Correlation of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-induced apoptotic cell death in the embryonic vasculature with embryotoxicity
Vertebrate embryos are particularly sensitive to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). Identification of tissues that are susceptible to the adverse effects of TCDD is requisite for understanding the embryo toxic effects of TCDD. The objective of the present study was to quantitate the temporal appearance of and dose dependence of apoptosis in TCDD-exposed medaka embryos (Oryzias latipes). A
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Susannah M. Cantrell, Jennifer Joy-Schlezinger, John J. Stegeman, Donald E. Tillitt, Mark D. Hannington
The CETAC ADX-500 Autodiluter System: A Study of Dilution Performance with the ELAN 6000 ICP-MS and ELAN Software
The CETAC ADX-500 autodiluter system was tested with ELAN?? v 2.1 software and the ELAN 6000 ICP-MS instrument to determine on-line automated dilution performance during analysis of standard solutions containing nine analytes representative of the mass spectral range (mass 9 to mass 238). Two or more dilution schemes were tested for each of 5 test tube designs. Dilution performance was determined
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Thomas W. May, Ray H. Wiedmeyer
Concentrations of metals associated with mining waste in sediments, biofilm, benthic macroinvertebrates, and fish from the Coeur d'Alene River Basin, Idaho
Arsenic, Cd, Cu, Pb, Hg, and Zn were measured in sediments, biofilm, benthic macroinvertebrates, and fish from the Coeur d'Alene (CDA) River to characterize the pathway of metals transfer between these components. Metals enter the CDA Basin via tributaries where mining activities have occurred. In general, the ranking of food-web components from the greatest to smallest concentrations of metals wa
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A.M. Farag, D. F. Woodward, J.N. Goldstein, W. Brumbaugh, J.S. Meyer