Coastal and Marine Monitoring

The EC Water Framework Directive (WFD) essentially combines the efforts in protecting gronndwater and all surface waters on land and in the territorial waters of the EU Member States, and therefore also transitional and coastal marine waters. As a result. 

The Water Framework Directive Ecological and Chemical Stanis Monitoring 

Edited by Philippe Quevauviller, Ulrich Borchers, Clive Thompson and Tristan Simonart 

AMAP 1978 HM, PCBs. PAHs. OCPs biota, sedimenL water 

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Monitoring of changes in the radioecological situation around each radiation-hazardous enterprise is the main methodic principle of information survey. Measurements, which frequency and scope depend on location and specific condition of every environmental contamination source, are conducted as follows monitoring of seawater, aerosols - every day dry land, atmospheric depositions - every week drinking water - every month coastal and marine vegetation, fish, benthos - once a year. 

X HE LEVELS OF INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL WASTES BEING DUMPED into our nation s coastal waters are constantly being monitored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NO A A). To carry out the frequent marine monitoring programs necessary to stay abreast of this problem, it was determined in 1977 that more expedient shipboard sampling and analyses systems would have to be developed. One area of prime interest for sampling and scrutiny was the surficial seafloor sediments. To enhance rapid data collection, the ability to analytically measure samples while at sea was essential. This capability would allow areas of interest to be delineated and studied in detail before the survey vessel returned to port. 

ScANES P (1997). Oyster Watch Monitoring trace metal and organochlorine concentrations in Sydney s coastal waters. Marine Pollut Bulletin 33 226 -238. 

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