Marine science

News

NIST Standard Story: A Fish Story

November 18, 2016

NIST scientists have thoroughly measured and characterized more than 1,300 physical products, NIST Standard Reference...

Earth Science: Seeing the Surface Clearly

November 24, 2014

Satellite observation has revolutionized our understanding of terrestrial conditions and climate dynamics. But the...

Researchers Find Organic Pollutants Not Factor in Turtle Tumor Disease

July 15, 2014

For nearly four decades, scientists have suspected that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) contributed to a green...

Seeing the Oceans in Their True Colors

April 03, 2013

Much of what is known about the state of the Earth's oceans, and how they change over time, comes from satellite...

Publications

Lessons learned from monitoring organic contaminants in three decades of marine samples from the Pacific basin archived at the USA's Marine Environmental Specimen Bank

December 07, 2016

Author(s):

Stacy S. Vander-Pol, John R. Kucklick, Jennifer M. Lynch, Rebecca S. Pugh, Jared M. Ragland, Jessica L. Reiner, Jennifer Trevillian

The USAs Marine Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) has banked marine wildlife collections dating back to 1976. Numerous lessons have been learned...

Mercury Risk to Avian Piscivores across the Western United States and Canada

October 15, 2016

Author(s):

Allyson Jackson, David C. Evers, Collin A. Eagles-Smith, Joshua T. Ackerman, James J. Willacker, John E. Elliott, Stacy S. Vander-Pol, Colleen E. Bryan

As part of the Western North America Mercury Synthesis, we evaluated risk to avian piscivores across all or parts of their breeding range through the...

Perfluorinated Alkyl Acids in the Plasma of South African Crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)

July 01, 2016

Author(s):

Jessica L. Reiner, John A. Bowden, Ian Christie, Matthew P. Guillette, Theresa M. Cantu, Russell H. Lowers, Hannes Botha, Wilmien Luus-Powell, Willem J. Smit, Danny Govender, Danie Pienaar, Louis J. Guillette Jr.

Perfluorinated alkyl acids (PFAAs) are environmental contaminants that have been used in many products for over 50 years. Interest and concern has grown since...

Persistent organic pollutants in blood samples of Southern Giant Petrels (Macronectes giganteus) from the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

May 26, 2016

Author(s):

Fernanda I. Colabuono, Stacy S. Vander-Pol, Kevin M. Huncik, Satie Taniguchi, Petry V. Maria, John R. Kucklick, Rosalinda C. Montone

Seabirds play an important role as top consumers in the food web and can be used as biomonitors of exposure to pollutants. Contamination studies on seabirds...

Marine science

News

NIST Standard Story: A Fish Story

Earth Science: Seeing the Surface Clearly

Researchers Find Organic Pollutants Not Factor in Turtle Tumor Disease

Seeing the Oceans in Their True Colors

Publications

Lessons learned from monitoring organic contaminants in three decades of marine samples from the Pacific basin archived at the USA's Marine Environmental Specimen Bank

Mercury Risk to Avian Piscivores across the Western United States and Canada

Perfluorinated Alkyl Acids in the Plasma of South African Crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)

Persistent organic pollutants in blood samples of Southern Giant Petrels (Macronectes giganteus) from the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Projects & Programs

Marine Environmental Metabolomics

Isotopes as Environmental Tracers in Biological Specimens

NIST Aids the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Area of Marine Animal Health

NIST Intercomparison Exercise Program for Organic Contaminants in the Marine Environment