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Gulfwatch Program

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

Gulfwatch is presently a program in which the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, is used as an indicator for habitat exposure to organic and inorganic contaminants.

Description

Bivalves, such as M. edulis, have been successfully used as indicator organisms in environmental monitoring programs throughout the world to identify variation in chemical contaminants between sites, and contribute to the understanding of trends in coastal contamination.

Sponsor: Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment

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Documentation and papers

  • gulfofmaine.org /gulfwatch ↗

    Additional information about this monitoring program and data are available from this web site.

    documentation · from NASA CMR

Catalogue records · 2

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Provenance · 1 source records, 14 field assertions
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NASA Earthdata CMRC1214155273-SCIOPS14 d agoJSON v1
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access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/animals-invertebratessource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/animals-invertebrates/mollusks/bivalves/musselssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecological-dynamics/community-dynamics/indicator-speciessource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-chemistry/inorganic-mattersource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-chemistry/organic-mattersource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/water-quality/ocean-contaminantssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-providedsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
license_textsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0