HA1 Contaminated Harbour and River Sediment
256 Portland Ballroom
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Thursday

8:00 AM -

656 :: Urban harbor sediment contaminants responsible for acute toxicity in tests with Ampelisca abdita. Brownawell, B1, Dick, J1, McElroy, A1, LeBlanc, L1, Ruggieri, J1, Cottrel, L1, Reddy, C2, 1 Stony Brook University, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook, NY, USA2 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

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657 :: Contaminant Fate and Effects in Harbor Systems. Warren, C1, Mackay, D1, Hellou, J2, Ethier, A1, Lee, K2, 1 Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada2 Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

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658 :: Accumulation of PCBs and Dioxins in New York-New Jersey Harbor. Farley, K1, 2, Wands, J2, Miller, R2, 1 Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY, USA2 HydroQual, Inc., Mahwah, NJ, USA

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659 :: PCB desorption from Hudson River sediments during realistic bottom shear and water column turbulence. Schneider, A.1, Porter, E.1, Baker, J.1, 1 University of Maryland Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, Maryland, USA

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660 :: The Active Capping Demonstration Project in the Anacostia River, DC. Reible, Danny1, Constant, David 2, 1 University of Texas2 Louisiana State University

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661 :: Benthic ecological risk assessment – Balancing environmental and chemical stressors in an estuary. Williams, L.1, Durda, J.2, Preziosi, D.2, Sparks, P.3, 1 Integral Consulting, Inc., Seattle, WA, USA2 Integral Consulting, Inc., Annapolis, MD, USA3 Integral Consulting, Inc., Olympia, WA, USA

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662 :: Activated carbon amendment reduces bioavailability of polychlorinated biphenyls from sediment to the clam Macoma balthica. McLeod, P1, van den Heuvel-Greve, M2, Werner, D1, Luoma, S3, Luthy, R1, 1 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA2 National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management, Middelburg, Netherlands3 United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA

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663 :: Transport and Fate of Hazardous Substances in a Capped Sediment System. Valsaraj, Kalliat1, Yuan, Qingzhong1, 1 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

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664 :: Mechanisms of Metal Release from Contaminated Sediments in Coastal Massachusetts. Kalnejais, L1, Martin, W2, Francois, R2, Bothner, M3, 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, Woods Hole, MA, USA2 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA3 United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, USA

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665 :: Comparison of Sediment Contamination in the St. Louis River Area of Concern with Other Harbors and Rivers in North America. Crane, J.1, MacDonald, D.2, Smorong, D.2, Fisher, L.2, 1 MPCA, St. Paul, MN, USA2 MacDonald Environmental Sciences Ltd., Nanaimo, BC, Canada

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