Alaska Contaminant and Tissue Archival Program - animals shown are black-legged kittiwake, thick-billed murre, beluga whale, polar bear, and walrus.
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STAMP - Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Program
Colonies sampled for STAMP
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STAMP Bibliography
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NBSB - National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank
NMMTB Tissue Sample Inventory


The Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Project (STAMP)

Bibliography

Journal Publications

Christopher, S.J., S.S. Vander Pol, R.S. Pugh, R.D. Day, and P.R. Becker. 2002. Determination of mercury in the eggs of common murres (Uria aalge) for the seabird tissue archival and monitoring project. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 17:780-785.

Formal Agency Publications

York, G.W., B.J. Porter, R.S. Pugh, D.G. Roseneau, K. Simac, P.R. Becker, L.K. Thorsteinson, and S.A. Wise. 2001. Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Project: Protocol for Collecting and Banking Seabird Eggs. NISTIR 6735. National Institute of Standards and Technology, MD 25 p.

Symposium Proceedings

Kucklick, J.R., S.S. Vander Pol, P.R. Becker, R.S. Pugh, K. Simac, G.W. York, and D.G. Roseneau. 2002. Persistent organic pollutants in murre eggs from the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea. 22nd International Symposium on Halogenated Environmental Organic Pollutants and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Barcelona, Spain, 11-16 August 2002. Organohalogen Compounds 59:13-16.

Vander Pol, S.S., P.R. Becker, J.R. Kucklick , R.S. Pugh, D.G. Roseneau, K. Simac, and G.W. York. 2002. Trends in concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in eggs from Alaskan murre colonies. Second AMAP International Symposium on Environmental Pollution of the Arctic, Rovaniemi, Finland, 1-4 October 2002. Extended abstract 0-025. AMAP Report 2002.2, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), Oslo, Norway.

Vander Pol, S.S., S.J. Christopher, R. Day, R.S. Pugh, P.R. Becker, D.G. Roseneau, K. Simac, and G.W. York. 2002. Trends in concentrations of mercury in eggs from Alaskan murre colonies. Second AMAP International Symposium on Environmental Pollution of the Arctic, Rovaniemi, Finland, 1-4 October 2002. Extended abstract P-M40. AMAP Report 2002.2, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), Oslo, Norway.

Platform Presentations (Presenter underlined)

Becker, P.R. The history and future of the U.S. National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank. Second International Workshop on Ultra-Long-Term Cryogenic Preservation Network of Biological and Environmental Specimens, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, 31 March 2000.

Becker, P.R. Summary of NIST data and information on POPs in the Arctic,” AMAP POPs Data Workshop, Seattle Washington, 5 December 2000.

Becker, P.R., and G.W. York. The Alaska Marine Mammal Tissue Archival Project. MMS 8th Information Transfer Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, 4 April 2001.

Becker, P.R. Comparisons of contaminant concentrations in Alaska marine mammals and murres with concentrations in similar species from other regions, Workshop on Assessing Contaminant Impacts on Steller Sea Lions in Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, 5 September 2001.

Vander Pol, S.S., P.R. Becker, J.R. Kucklick, R.S. Pugh, D.G. Roseneau, G.W. York, and K Simac. Persistent organic pollutants in Alaskan murre (Uria spp.) eggs. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Baltimore, Maryland, 14 November 2001.

Kucklick, J.R., S.S. Vander Pol, P.R. Becker, R.S. Pugh, K. Simac, G.W. York, and D.G. Roseneau. Persistent organic pollutants in murre eggs from the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea. 22nd International Symposium on Halogenated Environmental Organic Pollutants and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Barcelona, Spain, 15 August 2002.

Vander Pol, S.S., P.R. Becker, J.R. Kucklick , R.S. Pugh, D.G. Roseneau, K. Simac, and G.W. York. 2002. Trends in concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in eggs from Alaskan murre colonies. Second AMAP International Symposium on Environmental Pollution of the Arctic, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2 October 2002.

Paul R. Becker, Stacy S. Vander Pol, David G. Roseneau, Kristin S. Simac, John R. Kucklick, Steven J. Christopher, Russell D. Day, Rebecca S. Pugh, and Geoff W. York. 2003. Contaminant Residues in Murre Eggs from Colonies in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea. 30th Annual Meeting, Pacific Seabird Group, Parksville, British Columbia, 19-22 February 2003.

Poster Presentations

Becker, P.R., S.S. Vander Pol, R.S. Pugh, B.J. Porter, D.G. Roseneau, G.W. York, K. Simac, J.R. Kucklick, S.J. Christopher, L.K. Thorsteinson, and S.A. Wise. Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Project (STAMP). Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Baltimore, Maryland, 11-15 November 2001.

Pugh, R.S., P.R. Becker, D.G. Roseneau, G.W. York, S.S. Vander Pol, J.R. Kucklick, S.J. Christopher, K. Simac, B.J. Porter, L.K. Thorsteinson, and S.A. Wise. Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Project. International Society of Biological and Environmental Repositories Annual Meeting, Danvers, Massachusetts, 5-8 May 2002.

Vander Pol, S.S., S.J. Christopher, R. Day, R.S. Pugh, P.R. Becker, D.G. Roseneau, K. Simac, and G.W. York. Trends in concentrations of mercury in eggs from Alaskan murre colonies. Second AMAP International Symposium on Environmental Pollution of the Arctic, Rovaniemi, Finland, 1-4 October 2002.

Vander Pol, S.S., P.R. Becker, J.R. Kucklick, S.J. Christopher, R.S. Pugh, D.G. Roseneau, G.W. York, and K.S. Simac. Comparing persistent pollutants in eggs from two Alaskan seabird species. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Salt Lake City, Utah, 16-20 November 2002.

For additional information contact:

David G. Roseneau
USFWS Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
2355 Kachemak Bay Drive, Suite 101
Homer, Alaska 99603-8021
Ph (907) 235-6546
Fax (907) 235-7783
E-mail dave_roseneau@fws.gov

Paul R. Becker
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hollings Marine Laboratory
331 Fort Johnson Road
Charleston, South Carolina 29412
Ph (843) 762-8861
Fax (843) 762-8742
E-mail paul.becker@noaa.gov

Geoff W. York
USGS/BRD, Alaska Science Center
1011 East Tudor Road, MS 701
Anchorage, Alaska 99503-6199
Ph (907) 786-3928
Fax (907) 786-3636
E-mail geoff_york@usgs.gov


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