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Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Program: Environmental Contaminants, Health Indicators, and Reproductive Biomarkers in Fish from the Mobile, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint, Savannah, and Pee Dee River Basins

This report documents the spatial trends in accumulative contaminants, health indicators, and reproductive biomarkers in Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in the southeastern United States to document.

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Monitors of Organic Chemicals in the Environment: Semipermeable Membrane Devices

Monitors of Organic Chemicals in the Environment, written by two CERC scientists (Jim Huckins and Jim Petty) and a collaborator from The Netherlands (Kees Booij). Twenty years ago, scientists at the Columbia Environmental Research Center began developing a diffusion membrane to aid in isolating contaminants from fish tissue, which ultimately led More...

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