Prince Edward Island province

Initial results of the North American Soil Geochemical Landscapes project (NASGLP) are presented from the Northeast United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York) and the Maritime provinces of Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island). 

The full-scale sampling of North American soils was initiated in 2007 with completion of the Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island in Canada and the New England states and New York in the US. Sample coverage at the end of 2008 is shown in Fig. 1. It is anticipated that this project will take approximately ten years to complete. 

Following a spectacular sequence of scientific detective work that relied on the cooperation and round-the-clock effort of multiple government and university researchers, the causative agent was identified as domoic acid on 18 December 1987, and the vehicle by which this toxin found its way into the diets of the victims, was the lowly cultured blue mussel Mytilus edulis) harvested from a small region in the eastern part of Canada s smallest province. Prince Edward Island. 

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