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National Mussel Watch Program - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
coastalscience.noaa.gov/science-areas/pollution/mussel-watch/
The program utilizes a sentinel-based approach to monitoring by collecting and analyzing sediment and bivalves (oysters and mussels) as surrogates for ...
A 2025 Assessment of Metals, Legacy Contaminants, and Contaminants of ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/a-2025-assessment-of-metals-legacy-contaminants-and-contaminants-of-emerging-concern-in-the-u-s-coastal-northeast/
Bivalves are used as indicator organisms for chemical contaminants in their local environments because they are immobile and they bioaccumulate ...
Influenza A Virus Detected in Native Bivalves in Waterfowl Habitat of ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/influenza-a-virus-detected-in-native-bivalves-in-waterfowl-habitat-of-the-delmarva-peninsula-usa/
We evaluated the prevalence of influenza A virus (IAV) in different species of bivalves inhabiting natural water bodies in waterfowl habitat along the ...
A 2019 Assessment of Metals, Legacy Contaminants, and Contaminants of ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/a-2019-assessment-of-metals-legacy-contaminants-and-contaminants-of-emerging-concern-in-the-pacific-northwest/
The Mussel Watch Program uses an ecosystem-based approach to monitoring, which entails measuring the concentration of chemical contaminants in ...
Diurnal fluctuations in CO2 and dissolved oxygen concentrations do not ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/diurnal-fluctuations-in-co2-and-dissolved-oxygen-concentrations-do-not-provide-a-refuge-from-hypoxia-and-acidification-for-early-life-stage-bivalves/
This study assessed the effects of constant and diurnally fluctuating acidification and hypoxia on the survival, growth, and development of larval ...
Histological Techniques for Marine Bivalve Mollusks and Crustaceans
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/histological-techniques-marine-bivalve-mollusks-crustaceans/
To best manage marine resources such as bivalve mollusks (i.e., clams, oysters) and crustaceans (i.e., crabs), scientists must have access to the ...
Great Lakes Mussel Watch Program: An Assessment and Characterization of ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/great-lakes-mussel-watch-program-an-assessment-and-characterization-of-per-and-polyfluoroalkyl-substances-pfass-within-the-great-lakes-basin/
Bivalves are used as indicator organisms for chemical contaminants in their local environments because they are sessile and sedentary, and they ...
Histological techniques for marine bivalve mollusks and crustaceans ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/histological-techniques-for-marine-bivalve-mollusks-and-crustaceans/
During the mid-1950s, massive and widespread oyster mortalities, particularly in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bay areas, served as a stimulus to ...
Diurnal Fluctuations in Acidification and Hypoxia Reduce Growth and ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/diurnal-fluctuations-in-acidification-and-hypoxia-reduce-growth-and-survival-of-larval-and-juvenile-bay-scallops-argopecten-irradians-and-hard-clams-mercenaria-mercenaria/
In contrast, when both pH and DO varied diurnally, the survival rates of larval bivalves were significantly lower than the survival of individuals ...
Histological Techniques for Marine Bivalve Molluscs: Update
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/histological-techniques-for-marine-bivalve-molluscs-update/
This chapter describes the procedures for determining the reproductive stage of oysters, mytilid mussels, and dreissenid mussels collected for NOAA s ...
An Assessment of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Sediments ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/an-assessment-of-polybrominated-diphenyl-ethers-pbdes-in-sediments-and-bivalves-of-the-u-s-coastal-zone/
This report, which represents the first national assessment of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the U.S. coastal zone, shows that they are ...
Scientists Use Land Use, Demographics Data to Model Distribution of ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/modeling-coastal-contaminant-distribution-from-land-use-and-demographics/
NST uses a multi-matrix approach that utilizes sediment, fish, bivalves, and macro infauna for contaminant monitoring (national and regional) and site ...
Transgenerational exposure of North Atlantic bivalves to ocean ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/transgenerational-exposure-of-north-atlantic-bivalves-to-ocean-acidification-renders-offspring-more-vulnerable-to-low-ph-and-additional-stressors/
While early life-stage marine bivalves are vulnerable to ocean acidification, effects over successive generations are poorly characterized. The ...
Ocean Acidification: NCCOS-funded Research Reveals Legacy Effect of ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/nccos-funded-research-reveals-legacy-effect-of-co2-on-bivalve-larvae-survival/
While, the negative impacts of increasing ocean acidification on clams, scallops and other bivalves the biological basis is still unclear,’legacy ...
Hypoxia and acidification have additive and synergistic negative ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/hypoxia-and-acidification-have-additive-and-synergistic-negative-effects-on-the-growth-survival-and-metamorphosis-of-earlylife-stage-bivalves/
Collectively, these findings demonstrate that the consequences of low oxygen and acidification for early life stage bivalves, and likely other marine ...
Are Growth and Toxicity of the Dinoflagellate Alexandrium Controlled by ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/are-growth-and-toxicity-of-dinoflagellate-alexandrium-controlled-by-grazer-induced-defense/
Blooms of Alexandrium fundyense result in economic losses to fisheries, aquaculture, and pose public health risks. Typically, A. fundyense growth and ...
Effects and Discovery of Chronic Domoic Acid Exposure on Gene ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/chronic-domoic-acid-exposure-gene-expression-central-nervous-system/
DA usually transfers to higher trophic level animals via filter feeding bivalves or fish, exposing many vertebrate species including marine mammals ...