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Mercury in ground water, septage, leach-field effluent, and soils in residential areas, New Jersey coastal plain

Water samples were collected from domestic wells at an unsewered residential area in Gloucester County, New Jersey where mercury (Hg) concentrations in well water were known to exceed the USEPA maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 2000 ng/L. This residential area (the CSL site) is representative of more than 70 such areas in southern New Jersey where about 600 domestic wells, sampled previously by S
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J. L. Barringer, Zoltan Szabo, D. Schneider, W.D. Atkinson, R.A. Gallagher

Macroinvertebrate abundance, water chemistry, and wetland characteristics affect use of wetlands by avian species in Maine

Our objective was to determine use by avian species (e.g., piscivores, marsh birds, waterfowl, selected passerines) of 29 wetlands in areas with low (<200 μeq l−1) acid-neutralizing capacity (ANC) in southeastern Maine. We documented bird, pair, and brood use during 1982–1984 and in 1982 we sampled 10 wetlands with a sweep net to collect invertebrates. We related mean numbers of invertebrates per
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J. R. Longcore, D.G. McAuley, G.W. Pendelton, C. R. Bennatti, T.M. Mingo, K. L. Stromborg

Assessing acid deposition: Advances in the state of science

NAPAP has a long history of conducting research related to acid deposition. Throughout the 1980s NAPAP supported a large number of research projects that confirmed the link between SO2 and NOx emissions and acidic lakes and streams hundreds of miles away. Recent research is confirming the tight link between emissions of SO2 and the amount of several different forms of sulfur in the atmosphere and
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B. Bloomer, R. Cook, C. Eagar, M. Fenn, R. Haeuber, Thomas G. Huntington, S. McLaughlin, Peter S. Murdoch, T. Saltman, D. Schmeltz, M. Streigel, C. Trettin

Results of the acid rain program: Status and trends of emissions and environmental impacts (1990–2002)

Both SO2 and NOx emissions from power generation sources have significantly declined under Title IV. In 2002, SO2 emissions from Title IV-affected sources totaled 10.2 million tons and NOx emissions from all Title IV-affected sources totaled 4.5 million tons, down 35% and 33% respectively from 1990 levels. Sources in states with the highest emissions continue to reduce their emissions the most, an
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R. Cook, C. Eagar, M. Fenn, R. Haeuber, Thomas G. Huntington, S. McLaughlin, M. Ross, T. Saltman, D. Schmeltz, M. Streigel, C. Trettin

Mycobacteriosis in Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis)

No abstract available.
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Christopher A. Ottinger, Vicki S. Blazer, Christine L. Densmore, David T. Gauthier, H. Kator, F. M. Panek, M. W. Rhodes, W. Vogelbein

The consequences of methane oxidation at the sulfate-methane interface in a methane-rich core from the northern Gulf of Mexico

No abstract available.
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W. Ussler, C.K. Paul, Y. Chen, Ryo Matsumoto, T.D. Lorenson, William J. Winters

National research council study on the effects of trawling and dredging on seafloor habitat

No abstract available.
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J. Steele, Sally J. Roberts, D.L. Alverson, P.J. Auster, J.S. Collie, J.T. DeAlteris, Linda A. Deegan, E. Briones, S.J. Hall, Gordon H. Kruse, C. Pomeroy, Kathryn M. Scanlon, P. Weeks

Mapping the geology of the seafloor

No abstract available.
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B.D. Andrews, B. Butman

Effect of grain size and pore pressure on acoustic and strength behavior of sediments containing methane gas hydrate

No abstract available.
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William J. Winters, William F. Waite, D.H. Mason, L.Y. Gilbert, I.A. Pecher

Exploring the persistence of sorted bedforms on the inner-shelf of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina

Geological studies offshore of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina reveal subtle large-scale regions of coarse sand with gravel and shell hash (widths between 100 and 200 m and negative relief of ∼1 m) that trend obliquely to the coast. It was previously suggested that these regions serve as conduits for sand exchange between the shoreface and inner shelf during storm-associated downwelling. Conseq
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Benjamin T. Gutierrez, George Voulgaris, E. Robert Thieler

The effects of area closures on Georges Bank

No abstract available.
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Jason Link, F.V. Almeida, Page C. Valentine, Peter J. Auster, Robert Reid, Joseph Vitaliano