Monitoring Environmental Materials and Specimen Banking Proceedings of the International Workshop, Berlin (West), 23–28 October 1978

Ever since the industrial revolution, large numbers of environmentally hazardous materials are in­ troduced into the global environment annually; a list of all substances which are at present re­ garded as environmentally hazardous might contain thousands of compounds, and new substan­ ces are still...

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Other Authors: Luepke, N.P. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1979, 1979
Edition:1st ed. 1979
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • List of contributors and participants
  • VI. Programme Design and Organizational Aspects
  • 1. Goal and objectives
  • 2. Statistical and biomathematical requirements
  • 3. General guidelines
  • 4. Recommendations for further research
  • VII. Cost Estimation
  • 1. Monitoring environmental materials
  • 2. Specimen banking
  • 3. Conclusions
  • VIII. Ethical and Legal Considerations
  • Annex I
  • Abstracts of working papers
  • Annex II
  • Working papers submitted for the Workshop
  • Monitoring inorganic pollutants in domestic and farm animals
  • Monitoring environmental materials and specimen banking using terrestrial insects with particular reference to inorganic substances and pesticides
  • Use of oysters and related molluscs as biological monitors of synthetic organic pollutants
  • Specimen banking marine organisms
  • Advantage and problems of usung wild-living animals as indicators for environmental pollution
  • Monitoring environmental materials and specimen banking — state-of-the-art of Japanese experience and knowledge
  • Organo-halogenated compounds in aquatic ecosystems
  • Statement of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
  • Organo-halogenated compounds in farm and domestic animals
  • Monitoring environmental materials and specimen banking for organohalogenated compounds in aquatic ecosystems
  • Experiences in monitoring and banking human biological specimen
  • Organohalogenated compounds in plants and soil
  • Terrestrial vertebrate animals as biological monitors of pollution
  • The mussel watch biological monitoring research program
  • Collection, storage and analysis of freshwater fish for monitoring environmental contaminants
  • State-of-the-art of biological specimen banking in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Ecological action of mercury by-products on different animaltissues
  • Organo-halogenated compounds in terrestrial wildlife
  • Conclusions and Recommendations
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. Terminology and definitions
  • 2. Objectives of the workshop and the final document
  • 3. Monitoring environmental materials
  • 4. Specimen banking
  • II. Selection of Pollutants and Pollutant Categories of Interest for Monitoring Environmental Materials
  • III. Selection of Environmental Materials Related to Ecosystems and Pollutants or Pollutant Categories
  • 1. General aspects
  • 2. Review of past and current programmes
  • 3. Criteria for the selection of ecosystem compartments and processes
  • IV. Technical Considerations
  • 1. General remarks
  • 2. Collection, collection equipment, sample preparation and transportation
  • 3. Container materials
  • 4. Storage methods
  • 5. Conclusions and recommendations
  • V. Analytical Aspects
  • 1. Analytical methods
  • 2. Profile and fingerprint methods
  • 3. Partly of fully automatized analysis
  • 4. Standardisation and quality control
  • Basic ecological concepts and urban ecological systems
  • Considerations applicable to the monitoring of organohalogenated compounds in terrestrial wildlife, especially birds
  • The role of deep-sea organisms in monitoring environmental xenobiotics
  • The grey mullet (Mugil cephalus L.) as a marine bioindicator
  • Archiving wildlife specimens for future analysis
  • Trace metals in living marine resources taken from north atlantic waters
  • Some U.S. legal concerns in obtaining, archiving, and using non-human tissue samples
  • Pollution effects in freshwater communities
  • The use of fishes in the monitoring environmental materials and specimen banking
  • Monitoring serial inorganic pollutants by plant indicator specimens
  • Choice of species, sampling and sample pretreatment for subsequent analysis and banking of marine organisms useful for Hg, Pb and Cd monitoring
  • Specimen banking of food samples for long term monitoring of nutrient trace elements
  • Annex III
  • Naturally occuring steroids and synthetic hormones as sensitive monitoring compounds for the suitability of pretreatment procedures in specimen banking and for the long-term stability of stored biological samples
  • Container materials for the preservation of trace substances in environmental specimens
  • Monitoring of plants and soil for analysis of possible hazardous contaminants and banking of these environmental specimens
  • Non-halogenated organic compounds in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
  • Organic and inorganic compounds — analytical aspects
  • Use of macroalgae as a reference material for pollutant monitoring and specimen banking
  • A comparative analysis among responses to acute toxicity in standard laboratory bioassays and in natural streams
  • Specimen bank research at the National Bureau of Standards to insure proper scientific protocols for the sampling, storage and analysis of environmental materials