ELF (extremely low frequency) communications system ecological monitoring program: Summary of 1987 progress. Technical report, 1 January-31 December 1987

Technical Report · Sat Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5630717

Zapotosky, J E

A long-term Ecological Monitoring Program is being conducted to monitor for possible effects from the operation of the U.S. Navy's extremely low-frequency (ELF) Communications System to resident biota and their ecological relationships. Monitoring studies were selected through a peer-reviewed, competitive bidding process in mid-1982, and work on most studies began in late summer of that year. Preliminary activities of the Program consisted of site selection, characterization of critical study aspects, and validation of assumptions made in original proposals. Subsequently, increasing emphasis has been placed on the collection of preoperational and operational data bases at the Michigan and Wisconsin Transmitting Facilities. The data bases are being used to make proposed spatial and/or temporal comparisons of biological and ecological variables. This report summarizes the progress of the Ecological Monitoring Program during 1987.

• Research Organization: IIT Research Inst., Chicago, IL (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5630717
• Report Number(s): AD-A-208198/2/XAB; IIT-E-06595-3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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