Author: Yaroslaw Fitchko
Publisher: Windsor, Ont. : International Joint Commission, Great Lakes Regional Office
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Gilbertson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 940115290X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →`Are the Great Lakes getting better or worse?' This is the question that the public, scientists and managers are asking the International Joint Commission after a quarter-century of cooperative action by the United States and Canadian governments to clean up the Great Lakes. This volume contains papers from the workshop on Environmental Results, hosted in Windsor, Ontario, by the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, on September 12 and 13, 1996. The Great Lakes have been through almost a century of severe pollution from the manufacture, use and disposal of chemicals. In the 1960s wildlife biologists started to investigate the outbreaks of reproductive failure in fish-eating birds and ranch mink and to link these to exposure to organochlorine compounds. Human health researchers in the 1980s and 1990s linked growth retardation, behavioral anomalies and deficits in cognitive development with maternal consumption of Great Lakes fish prior to pregnancy. The Great Lakes became the laboratory where the theory of endocrine disruptors was first formulated. Now a group of Great Lakes scientists, hosted by the International Joint Commission, has compiled the story of the trends in the concentrations and effects of persistent toxic substances on wildlife and humans. The technical papers review the suitability of various organisms as indicators, and present the results of long-term monitoring of the concentrations and of the incidence of effects. The evidence shows that there was an enormous improvement in the late 1970s, but that in the late 1990s there are still concentrations of some persistent toxic substances that have stubbornly remained at levels that continue to cause toxicological effects.
Author: Barry L. Johnson
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2000-07
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 0756700124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1990, Congress amended the Great Lakes (GL) Critical Programs Act, also known as the Fed. Water Pollution Control Act, mandating that the EPA and the ATSDR and the GL states submit a research report assessing the harmful human health effects of water pollutants in the GL basin. ATSDR developed the GL Health Effects Research Strategy to identify human populations residing in the GL basin that may be at greater risk of exposure to chemical contaminants, and to help prevent any adverse health effects. This report provides insight into ATSDR efforts to assess the adverse effects of water pollutants in the GL system on the health of people in the GL states.
Author: Barry Leonard
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2000-02
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 0788187228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chapters: historical overview; persistent toxic substances; pathways of exposure; a review of the Great Lakes (GL) human health literature; human health studies outside of the Great Lakes -- exposure to similar persistent toxic substances; limitations of human health studies; characterization of exposure and determination of the profiles and levels in human biologic tissues and fluids; identification of sensitive and specific human reproductive end points; determination of the short- and long-term risk(s) of adverse health effects in the children of exposed parents; and establishment of registries &/or surveillance cohorts in the GL. Illustrated.
Author: Michael Gilbertson
Publisher:
Published: 1998-10-31
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789401152914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Schmidtke
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780873710893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every notable aspect of Toxic Contamination in Large Lakes is examined by known experts from every continent. Authors represent the U.S. and Canada, Argentina, Sweden, USSR, Israel, Great Britain, Japan, China, The Netherlands, Germany, Kenya, Austria. Authors represent the entire spectrum-academia, government, and industry. The first published work offer such a diverse and complete examination of this subject, it provides valuable information and data for today and tomorrow-and the basis for stimulating new research. Chapters in this work were reviewed and carefully edited, after initial presentation at the World Conference on Large Lakes held May 18-21, 1986 at Mackinac Island, Michigan. It presents a wealth of information...a resource for continued use over the years...and should do much to stimulate further study. This vital work is especially of interest to environmental scientists and toxicologists, fisheries professionals, researchers, aquatic resource managers, ecologists, biologists, chemists, and engineers. Every science or engineering library with a water interest should have this notable reference.
Author: Great Lakes Water Quality Board. Toxic Substances Committee
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Canada. Environment Canada
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report summarizes what is currently known about the levels and the effects of toxic chemicals in the water, sediments, fish, wildlife and human residents of the Great Lakes basin. A list of critical pollutants is included. Particular attention is paid to the effects of toxic contaminants on double-crested cormorants, bald eagles, herring gulls, common terns, mink, common snapping turtles, and lake trout.