Item talk:Q229579

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/oregon-water-science-center/science/columbia-river-contaminants-and-habitat",
 "headline": "Columbia River Contaminants and Habitat Characterization Study",
 "datePublished": "March 31, 2017",
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     "name": "Elena Nilsen",
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     "text": "Take Home"
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     "text": "Fish, wildlife, and human populations along the lower Columbia River are exposed to an ever-growing variety of contaminants as a result of increasing urbanization, industrialization, and agricultural development."
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     "text": "Filling knowledge gaps associated with the occurrence and bioaccumulation of PBDEs and EDCs will improve the ability of management agencies to evaluate the actions that are the most likely to result in improving lower river and estuarine conditions for salmonids and other organisms. The presence and effects of these emerging contaminants are important issues that have high scientific and public visibility and potentially important implications for people, fish, and wildlife in the Columbia River Basin. By framing the investigation as a conceptual example of an integrated sampling project, our results can be used as a foundation for future efforts to establish a monitoring program for emerging contaminants, indicators of biotic integrity, and/or other issues of concern in the basin."
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     "text": "Study Objectives"
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     "text": "Largescale Sucker Contaminants"
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     "text": "Biomarker and Sediment Transport"
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     "text": "Results"
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     "text": "The study investigated transport pathways, chemical fate, and effects of polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants (PBDEs) and endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in aquatic media and through several levels of the foodweb in the lower Columbia River. This required innovative, interdisciplinary technologies and strategies, such as passive sampling, novel analytical methods, endocrine and reproductive biomarkers, cDNA microarrays, and coupling geochemical data to habitat classification and hydrodynamic and sediment transport modeling. The work was carried out in concert with ongoing efforts by multiple agencies and partnerships to understand impacts of these contaminants on the natural environment, associated species, and human health in the Columbia River Basin."
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