Pollution history of the Chesapeake Bay. National status and trends program for marine environmental quality: Technical memo

Technical Report · Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1998

OSTI ID:305787

Brush, G S; Hill, J M; Unger, M A

Sediment cores were collected at six sites throughout the main stem of the Chesapeake Bay as part of the NOAA Status and Trends program. The sites were selected to encompass the range of geochemical environments found in the Bay, where high temporal resolution was expected. This multi-disciplinary project examined the historical record, focusing primarily on recently deposited sediments, to assess natural processes operating in the Bay, and the extent of human influences on these processes. The scope of this project was to measure a range of physical properties and inorganic chemical species as indicators of natural and anthropogenic processes within the sediment column.

• Research Organization: National Ocean Service, Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment, Silver Spring, MD (United States); Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States); Maryland Geological Survey, Baltimore, MD (United States); College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 305787
• Report Number(s): PB-99-119091/XAB; NOAA-TM-NOS-ORCA-121; TRN: 90201166
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Mar 1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
CHESAPEAKE BAY
WATER POLLUTION
METALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
SAMPLING
HISTORICAL ASPECTS
SEDIMENTS