Everglades National Park

Tokyo Bay, Japan, total chlordanes SOILS, in mg/kg dry weight Everglades National Park, Florida, 1976, total chlordanes 0.002 8... 

Requejo, A.G., R.H. West, P.G. Hatcher, and P.A. McGillivary. 1979. Polychlorinated biphenyls and chlorinated pesticides in soils of the Everglades National Park and adjacent agricultural areas. Environ. Sci. Technol. 13 931-935. 

Fig. 9. GC-MS TIC traces for silylated total extracts of soil, river sediment and aerosol samples (a) Amazon Forest soil (Manaus, Brazil) (b) almond orchard agricultural field soil (CA, USA) (c) Harney River sediment in Everglades National Park (FL, USA), and (d) Gosan Island (Korea) aerosol during Asian dust event (April 27—28, 2001). Numbers refer to carbon chain length of homologous series ( = rj-alkane, o = rj-alkanol, A = rj-alkanoic acid, DHA = dehydroabietic acid, ik = isoprenoid ketone, S = sitosterol). 

In a study of pesticide levels in ambient suburban air, diazinon was detected in 80, 80, and 40% of samples collected in three cities (Miami, Florida Jackson, Mississippi and Fort Collins, Colorado), respectively. The maximum diazinon concentration detected in each city was 3.9, 2.0, and 2.2 ng/m3 for Miami, Florida Jackson, Mississippi and Fort Collins, Colorado, respectively (Kutz et al. 1976). During 1973-1974, diazinon concentrations in air were measured in urban Miami, Florida, and in the adjacent Everglades National Park. Urban diazinon levels ranged from not detectable to 3.3 ng/m3 (1.5 ng/m3 mean) corresponding levels in Everglades National Park ranged from not detectable to 1.9 ng/m3 (0.6 ng/m3 mean) (Lewis and Lee 1976). Nationwide, diazinon was detected in 48% of 123 urban air samples collected in ten U S. cities during 1980. The maximum diazinon concentration reported was 23 ng/m3 (mean 2.1 ng/m3) (Carey and Kutz 1985). 

A brown pelican Pelecanus occidenUiIis at the Everglades National Park, Florida. Unlike the American white pelican, the brown is nonmigratory, preferring saltwater habitats year round. Photograph by Robert J. Huffman. Fieic Mark Pub-kcations. Reproduced by permission. 

In another setting of heavy DEET use, National Park Service employees in the Everglades National Park used heavy applications of DEET (McConnell et al. 1986). A government study of the workers found that high DEET exposure correlated with insomnia, muscle cramps, mood disturbances, and skin and urinary problems. A second study of the group with neurobehavioral testing correlated heavy DEET use with sleep disturbances, psychic distress, and impaired cognitive function (McConnell et al. 1986 Robbins and Cherniack 1986). 

McConnell R, Fidler AT, Chrislip D Health Hazard Evaluation Report NTIS, HETA 83-085-1757, Everglades National Park, Everglades, Florida. Cincinnati, OH, Hazard Evaluations and Technical Assistance Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1986 Misra NP, Pathak R, Gaur KJBS, et al Clinical profile of gas leak victims in acute phase after Bhopal episode. Indian J Med Res 86 (suppl) ll-19,1987 Moses M, Lilis R, Crow KD, et al Health status of workers with past exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in the manufacture of 2,4,5-trichloro-phenoxyacetic acid comparison of findings with and without chloracne. Am J Ind Med 5 161-182,1984... 

Originally, the water conservation areas were designed as buffer zones for waters destined for the southern Everglades and Everglades National Park. However, phosphorus impacts in these areas have shown signs of spreading to the pristine Everglades. Various... 

Comprises Water Conservation Areas 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, and 3B Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge and Everglades National Park... 

Established in 1974 to protect natural and recreational values of the Big Cypress Watershed land supports hunting, fishing, and oil and gas production provides an ecological buffer zone and water supply for Everglades National Park... 

About 80% of the bay hes within Everglades National Park a broad, shallow expanse of brackish-to-salty water that contains numerous small islands, extensive sandbars and grass flats mangroves and sea grasses provide valuable habitat for many species keys watershed consists of a limestone island archipelago of about 800 islands extending southwest for over 320 km... 

Osborne, T. Z., K. R. Reddy, S. Newman, and S. Grunwald. 2008. Spatial distribution of soil properties in the Everglades National Park (submitted for publication). 

Front cover image (clockwise from top right) (1) Rice paddy under cultivation, Wargal (near Hyderabad), Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo by K. Ramesh Reddy) (2) pitcher plants (Sarracenia flava) in wet prairie of Tate s Hell Swamp, Florida (Photo by Todd. Z. Osborne) (3) mangrove swamp. Lost Man s River, Everglades National Park, Florida (photo by Todd Z. Osborne) and (4) shore of Blue Cypress Lake, Blue Cypress Marsh, Florida (Photo by Todd Z. Osborne). 

In more recent work in our laboratory, fluorescence lifetime studies on a series of South Florida riverine to marine water samples (Shark River in Everglade National Park to Florida Bay in the Gulf of Mexico) also indicated that several fluorophores are present, with multiple lifetimes in the range of... 

The tropical dry forests that occur as fragments within pine savannas in the Horida Everglades are extremely well protected by the National Park Service. The world s largest restoration project is underway in the Everglades National Park, at the cost of over one billion dollars. Part of this restoration project has been to replant tropical dry forests and pine savannas in areas that were... 

Robertson, W.B., Jr, A Survey of the Effects of Fire in the Everglades National Park, National Park Service, Homestead, 1953, 68. 

Barnard, D. R., Bernier, U. R., Posey, K. H., andXue,R.D.Repellency of IR3535, KBR3023,para-men-thane-3,8-diol, and deet to black salt marsh mosquitoes (Diptera Culicidae) in the Everglades National Park. J Med Entomol 39, 895-899 (2002). 

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