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Title: Inventory of non-federally funded marine pollution research, development and monitoring activities: Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Region

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7135303

This report includes descriptions of projects which were partially funded by the Federal Government, although the Federal contributions are not considered in the funding analyses. This report only considers marine pollution research, development, and monitoring activities. ''Research'' projects include studies, investigations, and surveys to study the sources, behavior, and effects of pollutants and polluting activities as well as studies concerning natural oceanic processes if these studies are conducted to improve understanding concerning pollutants and polluting activities. ''Development'' projects include efforts to provide analytical methods, instrumentation, and equipment necessary for research and monitoring of marine pollution. ''Monitoring'' projects include time-series observations of marine environmental conditions to determine the existing levels, trends in time and space, and natural variations in parameters measured. Some projects fall into the category of ''compliance'' monitoring. ''Compliance'' monitoring is generally undertaken for a permitted or licensed resource development activity to assure that an unacceptable level of environmental change has not occurred.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA). Information Research and Analysis Div.; National Marine Pollution Program Office, Rockville, MD (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OR21400
OSTI ID:
7135303
Report Number(s):
ORNL/M-193; ON: DE86015934
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English