To support type approval testing of ballast water management systems we evaluated freshwater viability assessments for protists from the Duluth-Superior harbor of western Lake Superior using the most probable number (MPN) ...

Per VIDA, the primary goal of this Research and Development (R&D) Plan is to identify approaches, methods, and best available technologies that can be applied to ballast water discharges that are effective at reducing ...

This technical report represents the shore-based evaluation of the Bawat Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) Mk2 – Mobile Treatment Unit, developed by Bawat A/S Agern Alle, 2970 Horsholm, Denmark (www.bawat.com). This ...

This technical report presents the land-based evaluation of the Optimarin Ballast System, Model 334/340FX2. This work was conducted to evaluate the potential of the system to be used as a flow-through water treatment method ...

Great Lakes fish are known dietary sources of persistent organochlorine and heavy metal toxicants. The Ojibwa of the upper Great Lakes have a long history of relying upon the Great Lakes fishery for subsistence and ...

Progress was made during this quarter on (1) collection and culturing of test organisms, (2) development of an invertebrate and fish bioassay facility for sediments, (3) preparation for sediment mutagenicity assays ...

This technical report represents the land-based evaluation of the Bawat Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) Mk2 – Mobile Treatment Unit, developed by Bawat A/S Agern Alle, 2970 Horsholm, Denmark (www.bawat.com). This ...

Aquatic sediments serve both as a sink and a source for numerous inorganic and organic pollutants that have been released into the environment. In the Great Lakes, sediment contamination is of primary concern in the vast ...

Environmental studies which include the analysis of low level anthropogenics are often limited by the analytical limits of detection {LOO) of the methodology employed. Large data bases for the Great Lakes have been ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes National Program Office conducts annual assessments of the aquatic communities of the Great Lakes each spring and summer. This report summarizes the results ...