Trace metal and ancillary data in the watersheds and urban embayments of Puget Sound. Data report

Technical Report · Mon Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5083926

Paulson, A J; Curl, H C; Feely, R A; Massoth, G J; Krogslund, K A

This is the first of three data reports encompassing trace metal and ancillary data obtained by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) of NOAA in Puget Sound, Washington, between 1979 and 1986. The report includes the complete data set from two urban embayments (Elliott and Commencement Bays) and the watersheds discharging into Puget Sound. Building on research then underway at PMEL on estuarine circulation, laboratory scientists began a coordinated study that began with the description of the distribution of properties (salinity, temperature, trace metals and trace organics) in the water column and underlying sediments. The objectives of the Marine Environmental Quality trace metal program were (1) to quantify the sources and sinks of selected trace metals for Puget Sound, (2) to determine geochemical mechanisms that transform trace metals between the dissolved and particulate phases and (3) to determine to what extent these geochemical mechanisms alter the fate of trace metals entering Puget Sound. The text of the data report consists of the sampling and analytical methods with the accompanying quality control/quality assurance data. The text of the data sections are a summary of the data and published literature in which the data are interpreted along with a catalogue of the data available on microfiche located in the back pocket of the data report.

• Research Organization: Pacific Marine Environmental Lab., Seattle, WA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5083926
• Report Number(s): PB-91-201574/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540320* -- Environment
Aquatic-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
ALKANES
BAYS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CHEMISTRY
COASTAL WATERS
CONTROL
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ELEMENTS
EXTRACTION
GEOCHEMISTRY
HYDROCARBONS
METALS
METHANE
NUTRIENTS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PACIFIC OCEAN
POLLUTION
POLLUTION SOURCES
PUGET SOUND
QUALITY ASSURANCE
QUALITY CONTROL
SALINITY
SAMPLING
SEAS
SEDIMENTS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SINKS
SURFACE WATERS
TRACE AMOUNTS
WATER POLLUTION
WATERSHEDS