A Pilot Study for Ambient Toxicity Testing in Chesapeake Bay-Volume I
- Published:
- April 1, 1991
this pilot study was designed to evaluate ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of water column, sediment and suborganismal tests. to complete this ambitious goal, a team of scientists from three Chesapeake Bay ResearchLaboratories were involve. Water column toxicity studies were directed by Lenwood W. Hall, Jr. of the University of Maryland's Agriculture Experiemtn Station, sediment toxicity tests were managed by Raymond W. Alden, III of Old Dominion University Applied Marine Research Laboratory, and suborganismal tests were directed by Jay Gooch of the University of Maryland's Chesapeake biological Laboratory. This report summaries data from the first year of this two-year study.