Fine-grained sediments contaminated with complex mixtures of organic and inorganic
chemical contaminants can be toxic in laboratory tests and/or cause adverse impacts to …

This review of 19 chemical approaches used in assessing sediment quality are classified
into empirical, mechanistic and sediment quality indices (SQI) groups. Empirical sediment …

Concerns regarding marine plastic pollution and its affinity for chemical pollutants led us to
quantify relationships between different types of mass-produced plastic and organic …

Plastic debris were collected from eight beaches around San Diego County, California.
Debris collected include: pre-production pellets and post-consumer plastics including …

The green turtle, Chelonia mydas, is a circumglobal species that is susceptible to
overexploitation as a food resource, incidental mortality in fisheries, and coastal foraging …

Rapid expansion of coastal anthropogenic development means that critical foraging and
developmental habitats often occur near highly polluted and urbanized environments …

Heavy metal pollution in lake systems has arisen plenty of threats for public health because
of its high toxicity, persistence, and bioaccumulation. Whereas heavy metals are inextricably …

The Southern California Bight (SCB) has undergone tremendous changes over the last 100
years resulting from natural and anthropogenic alteration of the coastal zone. A large influx …

An inventory of marine biotest methods for the evaluation of dredged material and sediments
was compiled on behalf of the Federal Environmental Agency of Germany. Relevant assays …

While the concentrations of heavy metals in pore water provide important information about
their bioavailability, to date few studies have focused on this topic. In this study, pore water in …