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Gulf of Maine Council. Gulfwatch Project Standard Procedures: Field and Laboratory. Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment. August 1997. 115 pp.

In 1989, the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment endorsed the concept of a Gulf-wide environmental health monitoring project and funded a pilot project consistent with the goals of the Gulf of Maine Environmental Monitoring Plan. Gulfwatch was the main result of this plan. The monitoring Plan is based on a mission statement provided by the Council: It is the mission of the Gulf of Maine Marine Environmental Quality Monitoring Program to provide environmental and resource managers with information to support sustainable use of the Gulf and allow assessment and management of risk to public and environmental health from current and potential threats. This resource is a detailed account of the standard procedures used by the Gulfwatch Program for the implementation period (1993 to 2001). This report includes both the field procedures and the laboratory methods for the extraction and quantification of the concentrations of organic and inorganic contaminants. The laboratory protocol for the contaminants are presented in the annual results publishing the results of the Gulfwatch. This report, however, is the first to combine the methods for laboratory and field procedures used in the Gulfwatch program.

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