Updated 2001-02-19
1. Sediment study for heavy metals and selected organic contaminants.
2. Analysis of benthic organisms for heavy metals and selected organic contaminants.
3. Study of suspended sediment distribution, composition and sources.
4. Determination of partitioning of heavy metals between dissolved and particulate phases.
This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project
Time frame
- Status
- Ongoing
- Project time span
- 1999 - 2003
- Data collection
- 1999 - 2003
- Data processing
- 1999 - 2003
- Data reporting
- 2000 - 2004
Data availability
- Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?
- yes-partly
- Data centres
- Marine TDC
If no (or only part of data are reported to a TDC), where and how are (other) data stored?
No data have been transferred to AMAP yet. We will facilitate such transfer during 2001.
- Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
- Yes
- Specimen banking information
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Methods & Procedures
Not specified
Additional Information
- Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
- No
Study area focuses on Northstar and Liberty Development Projects near Prudhoe Bay in the coastal Beaufort Sea.