Concepts in Marine Pollution Measurements

In 1966 Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act to promote marine research, education, and extension services in institutions along the nation's ocean and Great Lakes coasts. In Maryland a Sea Grant Program -- a partnership among federal and state governments, universities, and industries -- began in 1977, and in 1982 the University of Maryland was named the nation's seventeenth Sea Grant College.The Maryland Sea Grant College focuses its efforts on the Chesapeake Bay, with emphasis on the marine concerns of fisheries, seafood technology, and environmental quality.The forty-three papers in this major work address diverse techniques for measuring marine pollution and its effects on the environment and argue that any useful assessment of pollution impact depends on holistic conceptual approaches and suites of measurements that require coordinated team planning. The interdisciplinary nature of past work has often been the result of a posteriori reconstruction, an attempt at developing explanatory models from uncoordinated pieces of research.The final chapter, "Summary and Synthesis, " presents the issues that must be seriously considered if environmental science is to develop a realistic groundwork for understanding the dynamics of the marine environment -- a foundation that will lead to more effective controls for protecting the health of that environment.White, Harris H. is the author of 'Concepts in Marine Pollution Measurements' with ISBN 9780943676180 and ISBN 0943676185.