National Status and Trends: Mussel Watch Project Analyte Chemistry File (1986 to present) Compiled by NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science

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The MWANALYTE data file reports the trace concentrations of a suite of chemical contaminants in marine sediment and bivalve tissue samples collected from all U.S. coastal regions since 1986. The sediment and tissue samples were analyzed for major and trace elements and suite of organic chemical constituents, including butlytins, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and pesticides. The MWANALYTE file is constructed as a vertical formatted table.
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  • NCEI Metadata ID: gov.noaa.ncei:MusselWatch
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Distributor Mussel Watch Project Manager
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Chemical Impacts Team (CIT)
301-713-3028
Dataset Point of Contact National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Chemical Impacts Team (CIT)
Mussel Watch Project Manager
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Chemical Impacts Team (CIT)
301-713-3028
Time Period
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West:-159.356
East:-66.181
South:19.939
North:61.133
Spatial Coverage Map
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Publication Dates
  • publication: 2012-09-13
Data Presentation Form Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
Dataset Progress Status Status not available
Data Update Frequency Unknown
Purpose The main objectives of the NS&T Program are the following: (1) Conduct long-term monitoring of contaminants and other environmental conditions at more than 300 sites along all U.S. coasts, (2) Advise and participate in local, regional, national, and international projects related to coastal monitoring and assessment. The objective of the sediment and tissue chemistry data file is to report the concentrations of chemical contaminants measured in NS&T marine samples. Detailed detection limits can be found in: Lauenstein, G. G. and A. Y. Cantillo (1998) Analytical Methods of the National Status and Trends Program Mussel Watch Project - 1993 -1997 Update. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS ORCA 130, Silver Spring, MD. Lauenstein, G. G. and A. Y. Cantillo (1993) Sampling and analytical methods of the National Status and Trends Program National Benthic Surveillance and Mussel Watch Projects 1984-1992: Overview and summary of methods, Volume I NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS ORCA 71, Silver Spring, MD.
Originators
  • Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Chemical Impacts Team (CIT)
Publishers
  • NOAA's Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
Theme keywords
  • chemical contaminants of marine sediments
  • chemical contaminant of bivalves
  • chemistry
  • sediments
  • tissue
  • mussels
  • inorganic analytes
  • organic analytes
  • pollutants
  • metals
  • polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons
  • PAHs
  • butyltins
  • TBTs
  • polychlorinated biphenyls
  • PCBs
  • organochlorine pesticides
  • POPs
  • DDTs
  • grain size
  • TOC
  • TIC
  • Coastal Monitoring
  • NSandT
  • NS&T
  • coastal ecosystem science
  • oceans
Place keywords
  • UNITED STATES
  • Absecon Inlet, Atlantic City
  • Altamaha River, Wolfe Island
  • Anaheim Bay, West Jetty
  • Apalachee Bay, Spring Creek
  • Apalachicola Bay, Cat Point Bar
  • Apalachicola Bay, Dry Bar
  • Aransas Bay, Harbor Island
  • Aransas Bay, Long Reef
  • Atchafalaya Bay, Oyster Bayou
  • Barataria Bay, Bayou Saint Denis
  • Barataria Bay, Middle Bank
  • Barataria Bay, Turtle Bay
  • Barber's Point, Barber's Pt. Harbor
  • Barnegat Inlet, Barnegat Light
  • Beaufort Inlet, Pivers Island
  • Bellingham Bay, Squalicum Marina Jet.
  • Biscayne Bay, Gould's Canal
  • Biscayne Bay, Princeton Canal
  • Block Island Sound, Block Island
  • Bodega Bay Bodega, Bay Entrance
  • Boston Harbor, Brewster Island
  • Boston Harbor, Deer Island
  • Boston Harbor, Dorchester Bay
  • Boston Harbor, Hingham Bay
  • Brazos River, Cedar Lakes
  • Brazos River, Freeport Surfside
  • Breton Sound, Bay Gardene
  • Breton Sound, Sable Island
  • Buzzards Bay, Angelica Point
  • Buzzards Bay, Angelica Rock
  • Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod Canal
  • Buzzards Bay, Goosebury Neck
  • Buzzards Bay, Naushon Island
  • Buzzards Bay, Round Hill
  • Buzzards Bay, West Falmouth
  • Caillou Lake, Caillou Lake
  • Calcasieu Lake, Lake Charles
  • Calcasieu Lake, St. Johns Island
  • Cape Ann, Gap Head
  • Cape Arundel, Kennebunkport
  • Cape Cod, Nauset Harbor
  • Cape Fear, Battery Island
  • Cedar Key, Black Point
  • Charleston Harbor, Fort Johnson
  • Charleston Harbor, Shutes Folly Island
  • Charlotte Harbor, Bird Island
  • Charlotte Harbor, Fort Meyers
  • Chesapeake Bay, Bodkin Point
  • Chesapeake Bay, Cape Charles
  • Chesapeake Bay, Choptank River
  • Chesapeake Bay, Dandy Point
  • Chesapeake Bay, Hackett Point Bar
  • Chesapeake Bay, Hog Point
  • Chesapeake Bay, Ingram Bay
  • Chesapeake Bay, James River
  • Chesapeake Bay, Mountain Point Bar
  • Chincoteague Bay, Chincoteague Inlet
  • Choctawhatchee Bay, Ben's Lake
  • Choctawhatchee Bay, Boggy Bayou
  • Choctawhatchee Bay, Joe's Bayou
  • Choctawhatchee Bay, Off Santa Rosa
  • Choctawhatchee Bay, Postil Point
  • Columbia River, North Jetty
  • Columbia River, South Jetty
  • Columbia River, Youngs Bay
  • Commencement Bay, Browns Point
  • Commencement Bay, Tahlequah Point
  • Cook Inlet, Homer Spit
  • Coos Bay, Coos Head
  • Coos Bay, Russell Point
  • Copano Bay, Copano Reef
  • Corpus Christi, Boat Harbor
  • Corpus Christi, Ingleside Cove
  • Corpus Christi, Nueces Bay
  • Crescent, Point St. George
  • Delaware Bay, Arnolds Point Shoal
  • Delaware Bay, Ben Davis Pt. Shoal
  • Delaware Bay, Cape Henlopen
  • Delaware Bay, Cape May
  • Delaware Bay, False Egg Island Point
  • Delaware Bay, Hope Creek
  • Delaware Bay, Kelly Island
  • Delaware Bay, Woodland Beach
  • Duxbury Bay, Clarks Island
  • East Cote Blanche, South Point
  • Elliott Bay, Duwamish Head
  • Elliott Bay, Four-Mile Rock
  • Espiritu Santo, Bill Days Reef
  • Espiritu Santo, South Pass Reef
  • Eureka, Humboldt Bay Jetty
  • Eureka, Samoa Bridge
  • Everglades, Faka Union Bay
  • Farallon Islands, East Landing
  • Florida Bay, Flamingo
  • Florida Bay, Joe Bay
  • Florida Keys, Bahia Honda
  • Galveston Bay, Confederate Reef
  • Galveston Bay, Hanna Reef
  • Galveston Bay, Offatts Bayou
  • Galveston Bay, Ship Channel
  • Galveston Bay, Todd's Dump
  • Galveston Bay, Yacht Club
  • Gray's Harbor, Westport Jetty
  • Great Bay, Dover Point
  • Green Bay, Bayshore Park
  • Gulf of Alaska, Shuyak Harbor
  • Gulf of Alaska, Windy Bay
  • Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay
  • Honolulu Hrb., Keehi Lagoon
  • Hudson River, Cruger Island
  • Hudson/Raritan Estuary, Jamaica Bay
  • Hudson/Raritan Estuary, Lower Bay
  • Hudson/Raritan Estuary, Raritan Bay
  • Hudson/Raritan Estuary, Upper Bay
  • Imperial Beach, North Jetty
  • Indian River, Sebastian River
  • Joseph Harbor Bayou, Joseph Harbor Bayou
  • Kauai, Nawiliwili Harbor
  • Ketchikan, Mountain Point
  • Klamath River, Flint Rock Head
  • La Jolla, Point La Jolla
  • Lake Borgne, Gulf Outlet
  • Lake Borgne, Malheureux Point
  • Lake Erie, Ashtabula
  • Lake Erie, Dunkirk
  • Lake Erie, Lorain Lake Erie, Lorain
  • Lake Erie, Old Woman Creek
  • Lake Erie, Peach Orchard Pt.
  • Lake Erie, Reno Beach
  • Lake Erie, Stony Point
  • Lake Huron, Black River Canal
  • Lake Huron, Thunder Bay
  • Lake Michigan, Calumet Breakwater
  • Lake Michigan, Hammod Marina
  • Lake Michigan, Holland Breakwater
  • Lake Michigan, Milwaukee Bay
  • Lake Michigan, Muskegon
  • Lake Michigan, North Chicago
  • Lake Ontario, Cape Vincent
  • Lake Ontario, Olcott
  • Lake Ontario, Oswego
  • Lake Ontario, Rochester
  • Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans
  • Lake St. Clair, Anchor Bay
  • Las Tunas Beach, Santa Monica Bay
  • Long Beach, Breakwater
  • Long Island, Fire Island Inlet
  • Long Island, Gardiners Bay
  • Long Island, Jones Inlet
  • Long Island Sound, Connecticut River
  • Long Island Sound, Hempstead Harbor
  • Long Island Sound, Housatonic River
  • Long Island Sound, Huntington Harbor
  • Long Island Sound, Mamaroneck
  • Long Island Sound, New Haven
  • Long Island Sound, New Haven
  • Long Island Sound, Port Jefferson
  • Long Island Sound, Sheffield Island
  • Long Island Sound, Throgs Neck
  • Lower Laguna Madre, Arroyo Colorado
  • Lower Laguna Madre, Port Isabel
  • Lower Laguna Madre, South Bay
  • Marina Del Rey, South Jetty
  • Massachusetts Bay, Nahant Bay
  • Massachusetts Bay, North River
  • Matagorda Bay, Carancahua Bay
  • Matagorda Bay, Dog Island
  • Matagorda Bay, East Matagorda
  • Matagorda Bay, Gallinipper Point
  • Matagorda Bay, Lavaca River Mouth
  • Matagorda Bay, Tres Palacios Bay
  • Matanzas River, Crescent Beach
  • Merriconeag Sound, Stover Point
  • Mesquite Bay, Ayres Reef
  • Mission Bay, Ventura Bridge
  • Mississippi River, Pass A Loutre
  • Mississippi River, Tiger Pass
  • Mississippi Sound, Biloxi Bay
  • Mississippi Sound, Pascagoula Bay
  • Mississippi Sound, Pass Christian
  • Mobile Bay, Cedar Point Reef
  • Mobile Bay, Dog River
  • Mobile Bay, Hollingers Is. Chan.
  • Monterey Bay, Elkhorn Slough
  • Monterey Bay, Moss Landing
  • Monterey Bay, Point Santa Cruz
  • Moriches Bay, Tuthill Point
  • Nahku Bay, East Side
  • Naples Bay, Naples Bay
  • Narragansett Bay, Dutch Island
  • Narragansett Bay, Dyer Island
  • Narragansett Bay, Mount Hope Bay
  • Narragansett Bay, Patience Island
  • New York Bight, Long Branch
  • New York Bight, Sandy Hook
  • New York Bight, Shark River
  • Newport Beach, West Jetty
  • Niagara River, Niagara Falls
  • North Miami, Maule Lake
  • Oceanside, Municipal Beach Jetty
  • Pacific Grove, Lovers Point
  • Palos Verdes, Royal Palms State Pk.
  • Pamlico Sound, Cape Hatteras
  • Pamlico Sound, Neuse River
  • Pamlico Sound, Pungo River
  • Pamlico Sound, Wysocking Bay
  • Panama City, Little Oyster Bar
  • Panama City, Municipal Pier
  • Penobscot Bay, Pickering Island
  • Penobscot Bay, Sears Island
  • Pensacola Bay, Indian Bayou
  • Pensacola Bay, Public Harbor
  • Pensacola Bay, Sabine Point
  • Point Arena, Lighthouse
  • Point Conception, Point Conception
  • Point Delgada, Shelter Cove
  • Point Dume, Point Dume
  • Point Loma, Lighthouse
  • Point Roberts, Point Roberts
  • Point Santa Barbara, Point Santa Barbara
  • Port Valdez, Mineral Creek Flats
  • Potomac River, Mattox Creek
  • Potomac River, Ragged Point
  • Potomac River, Swan Point
  • Prince William Sound, Disk Island
  • Prince William Sound, Knowles Head
  • Prince William Sound, Sheep Bay
  • Prince William Sound, Sleepy Bay
  • Puerto Rico, Bahia Montalva
  • Puerto Rico, Bahia de Boqueron
  • Puerto Rico, Bahia de Jobos
  • Puget Sound, Everett Harbor
  • Puget Sound, Hood Canal
  • Puget Sound, Port Angeles
  • Puget Sound, Port Townsend
  • Puget Sound, South Seattle
  • Quinby Inlet, Upshur Bay
  • Rappahannock River, Ross Rock
  • Redondo Beach, Municipal Jetty
  • Roanoke Sound, John Creek
  • Rookery Bay, Henderson Creek
  • Sabine Lake, Blue Buck Point
  • Saginaw Bay, Saginaw River
  • Saginaw Bay, Sandpoint
  • Salem Harbor, Folger Point
  • San Antonio Bay, Mosquito Point
  • San Antonio Bay, Panther Point Reef
  • San Diego Bay, Coronado Bridge
  • San Diego Bay, Harbor Island
  • San Francisco Bay, Dumbarton Bridge
  • San Francisco Bay, Emeryville
  • San Francisco Bay, San Mateo Bridge
  • San Luis Obispo Bay, Point San Luis
  • San Miguel Island, Tyler Bight
  • San Pablo Bay, Point San Pedro
  • San Pablo Bay, Semple Point
  • San Pedro Harbor, Fishing Pier
  • San Simeon Point, San Simeon Point
  • Santa Cruz Island, Fraser Point
  • Santee River, North Bay
  • Sapelo Sound, Sapelo Island
  • Savannah River Estuary, Tybee Island
  • Sinclair Inlet, Waterman Point
  • South Catalina Island, Bird Rock
  • South Puget Sound, Budd Inlet
  • St. Andrew Bay, Watson Bayou
  • St. Johns River, Chicopit Bay
  • Strait of Juan de Fuca, Cape Flattery
  • Strait of Juan de Fuca, Neah Bay
  • Suwannee River, West Pass
  • Tampa Bay, Cockroach Bay
  • Tampa Bay, Hillsborough Bay
  • Tampa Bay, Mullet Key Bayou
  • Tampa Bay, Navarez Park
  • Tampa Bay, Old Tampa Bay
  • Tampa Bay, Papys Bayou
  • Tampa Bay, Peter O. Knight Airport
  • Terrebonne Bay, Lake Barre
  • Terrebonne Bay, Lake Felicity
  • Tillamook Bay, Hobsonville Point
  • Tomales Bay, Spenger's Residence
  • Traverse Bay, Leelanau State Park
  • Unakwit Inlet, Siwash Bay
  • Vermilion Bay, Southwest Pass
  • Whidbey Island, Possession Point
  • Willapa Bay, Nahcotta
  • Winyah Bay, Lower Bay
  • Yaquina Bay, Fogarty Creek
  • Yaquina Bay, Oneatta Point
  • Yaquina Bay, Sally's Slough
  • Yaquina Bay, Yaquina Head
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