Galveston Bay, Texas

Tank vessel Burmah Agate 11-01-79 Galveston Bay, Texas 254,761... 

American oyster, Crassostrea virginica Galveston Bay, Texas 1992-93 soft parts ... 

Jiann, K.T. and B.J. Presley. 1997. Variations in trace metal concentrations in American oysters (Crassostrea virginica) collected from Galveston Bay, Texas. Estuaries 20 710-724. 

King, K.A. and E. Cromartie. 1986. Mercury, cadmium, lead, and selenium in three waterbird species nesting in Galveston Bay, Texas, USA. Colon. Waterbirds 9 90-94. 

Mytilus edulis) from the dissolved phase of seawater was predictable from the log of the bioconcentration factor and the log Kow of the congeners (Bergen et al. 1993). American oysters (Crassostrea virginica) from Galveston Bay, Texas, contained as much as 1100 pg/kg total PCBs DW soft parts, whereas conspecihcs from Tampa Bay, Florida, contained only 580 pg/kg DW soft parts most (54 to 94%) of the relative toxicity in both groups was due to PCBs 77,126, and 169 (Sericano et al. 1994). 

In a study of the bioaccumulation of metals as colloid complexes and free ions by the marine brown shrimp, Penaeus aztecus [29] the colloids were isolated and concentrated from water obtained from Dickinson Bayou, an inlet of Galveston Bay, Texas, using various filtration and ultrafiltration systems equipped with a spiral-wound 1 kDa cutoff cartridge. The total colloidal organic carbon in the concentrate was found to be 78 lmgdm 3. The shrimps were exposed to metals (Mn, Fe, Co, Zn, Cd, Ag, Sn, Ba and Hg) as radiolabelled colloid complexes, and free-ionic radiotracers using ultrafiltered seawater without radiotracers as controls. The experiments were designed so that the animals were exposed to environmentally realistic metal and colloid concentrations. 

Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate has been detected in 24% of 901 surface water supplies at a median concentration of 10 pg/L and in 40% of 367 sediment samples at a median concentration of 1000 pg/kg in samples recorded in the STORET database in the United States (Staples et al., 1985). Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate concentrations in water from Galveston Bay, Texas, ranged from < 2 to 12 000 ng/L (average, 600 ng/L) (Murray etal., 1981), somewhat higher than those found earlier for the Mississippi Delta... 

Moser, V.C., Cheek, B.M. MacPhail, R.C. (1995) A multidisciplinary approach to toxicological screening 111. Neurobehavioral toxicity. J. Toxicol environ. Health, 45, 173-210 Miiller-Tegethoff, K., Kasper, P. Muller, L. (1995) Evaluation studies on the in vitro rat hepatocyte micronucleus assay. Mutat. Res., 335, 293-307 Murray, H.E., Ray, L.E Giam, C.S. (1981) Phthalic acid esters, total DDTs and polychlorinated biphenyls in marine samples from Galveston Bay, Texas. Bull, environ. Contam. Toxicol, 26, 769-774... 

Zimmerman, A.R., and Benner, R. (1994) Denitrification, nutrient regeneration and carbon mineralization in sediment of Galveston Bay, Texas, USA. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 114, 275-288. 

Murray HE, Ray EE, Giam CS. 1981. Phthalic acid esters, total DDTs and polychlorinated biphenyls in marine samples from Galveston Bay, Texas. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 26 769-774. 

King, KA, Krynitsky, AJ. 1986. Population trends, reproductive success and organochlorine chemical contaminants in waterbirds nesting in Galveston Bay, Texas. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 15 367- 376. 

Maximum concentrations of total silver recorded in selected nonbiological materials were 36.5 ng/m in air near a smelter in Idaho 2.0 jig/m in atmospheric dust O.lp-g/L in oil well brines 6.0 (Xg/L in groundwater near a hazardous waste site 8.9 xg/L in seawater from Galveston Bay, Texas 260.0 p,g/L in the Genesee River, New York - the recipient of photoprocessing wastes 300.0 p,g/L in steam wells 300.0 (xg/L in treated photoprocessing wastewaters 4500.0 txg/L in precipitation from clouds seeded with silver iodi ... 

J.S. Park, T.L. Wade, and S. Sweet, Atmospheric distributions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and depositions to Galveston Bay, Texas. Atmos. Environ. 39 (2001) 3241-3249. 

Ellis MS, Choi K-S, Wade TL, Powell EN, Jackson TJ, Lewis DH (1993) Sources of local variation in polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon and pesticide body burdens in oysters (Crassostrea virginica) from Galveston Bay, Texas. Comp Bio-chem Physiol 100C 689-698. 

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