Chesapeake Bay
Environmental Effects Studies

Toxic Research Program Funded Projects

Air-Water Partitioning and Transfer

R. M. Dickhut, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Air/water partitioning and mass transfer properties of toxic organic chemicals.
R/CBT-1 1990-1991

R. M. Dickhut, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Determination of the volatile/absorptive exchange of hydrophobic organic contaminants across the air/water interface of lower Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-18 1993-1994

Sediment-Associated Resuspension and Transport

G. T. F. Wong, Old Dominion University

Particle-reactive radionuclides as analogues of particle-reactive pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-2 1990-1991

D. J. P. Swift, Old Dominion University

Particle-reactive pollutants in southern Chesapeake Bay: accumulation, resuspension and flux into the bottom.
R/CBT-3 1990-1991

L. D. Wright, J. D. Boon, J. P. -Y. Maa, and L. C. Schaffner, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Dynamics of sediment resuspension: Bay-stem plains of the lower Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-4 1990-1991

L. P. Sanford,J. P. Halka and J. M. Hill, Maryland

Resuspension and transport of sediment associated toxics in the northern Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-9 1991-1992

Sediment Flux Processes

G. F. Riedel, J. G. Sanders, R. W. Osman, and C. C. Gilmour, Maryland

The role of benthic infauna and fluctuating oxygen concentrations in the flux of toxic trace elements from Chesapeake Bay sediments.
R/CBT-7 1990-1991

D. G. Capone, J. W. Gooch, and J. E. Baker, Maryland

Microbial degradation of chlorinated hydrocarbons under alternating redox conditions in Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-11 1992

J. C. Cornwell, Maryland; D. J. Burdige, Old Dominion University, and W. R. Boynton, Maryland

Direct measurements and biogeochemical controls of sediment-water flux of trace metals from estuarine sediments.
R/CBT-12 1992-1993

L. C. Schaffner and R. M. Dickhut, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Role of benthic communities in sediment-associated toxic organic chemical fate and transport in lower Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-15 1992-1993

Contaminant Speciation and Exposure

J. R. Donat, Old Dominion University

Determination of the chemical speciation of dissolved copper and cadmium in Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-14 1992

D. A. Wright and R. Dawson, Maryland

A risk assessment for Dimilin use in the northern Chesapeake Bay: a model study for non point-source runoff.
R/CBT-24 1994-1995

R. P. Mason and D. A. Wright, Maryland

Factors controlling the food chain accumulation and transfer of inorganic and methylmercury in Chesapeake Bay organisms.
R/CBT-27 1995-1996

J. S. Weis and P. Weis, Rutgers University

Impacts of CCA pressure-treated wood structures in Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-29 1995-1996

Uptake and Trophic Transfer

J. E. Baker, H. R. Harvey and R. Dawson, Maryland

Role of plankton in controlling the partitioning and transport of hydrophobic organic contaminants in Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-8 1990-1991

G. B. McManus and M. R. Roman, Maryland

Role of plankton in controlling the partitioning and transport of hydrophobic organic contaminants in Chesapeake Bay: zooplankton feeding and excretion.
R/CBT-10 1990-1991

J. G. Sanders and K. G. Sellner, Maryland

The importance of dinoflagellate blooms in the transport of carbon and toxic trace elements in Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-13 1992-1993

D. P. Weston, University of California, Berleley, D. L. Penry,University of California, Berleley, R. I. E. Newell, Maryland, and J. E. Baker, Maryland

Uptake of dissolved and particle-associated toxicants by the eastern oyster.
R/CBT-16 1992-1993

G. F. Riedel, J. G. Sanders, and C. C. Gilmour, Maryland

Contaminant flux from sediments: impact on Chesapeake Bay food webs.
R/CBT-20 1993-1994

R. M. Dickhut and L. C. Schaffner, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Organic contaminant metabolite production, elimination, and bioavailability in benthic macrofauna of lower Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-25 1994-1995

L. C. Schaffner and R. M. Dickhut, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Role of Benthic macrofauna in trophic transfer of organic contaminants (PAHs, PCBs) to demersal predators.
R/CBT-28 1995-1996

J. G. Sanders and G. F. Riedel, Maryland

Impact of sediment-associated contaminants on benthic species in Chesapeake Bay: implications for carbon and contaminant transfer in food webs.
R/CBT-31 1995-1996

Contaminant-Organism Response Interactions

F. -L. Chu and R. Hale, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Relationship of pollutants to the onset of disease in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica.
R/CBT-5 1990-1991

M. Faisal, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Use of fish and oyster cell cultures to study toxic effects of chemical pollutants of the Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-6 1990-1991

T. P. Chen and G. Roesijadi, Maryland

Effects of trace metals and organic pollutants on stress-induced proteins and metallothionein in oyster larvae and spat: a molecular approach.
R/CBT-17 1992

R. Weiner and M. Walch, Maryland

Interaction of copper and cadmium with microbial benthos biofilm and effects on oyster larval set.
R/CBT-19 1993-1994

R. S. Anderson, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, UMCES, and E. M. Burreson, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

The effects of environmental contaminants on the progression of Perkinsus marinus infection in the Eastern oyster.
R/CBT-22 1994-1995

J. G. Kramer, Maryland

Metallothionein in marine coccoid cyanobacteria: cloning, transcriptional analysis and application to the assessment of metal stress in natural communities of picoplankton in Chesapeake Bay.
R/CBT-23 1994-1995

F.-L. Chu, R. Hale and W. Vogelbein, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Role of sediment associated pollutants in infectious disease susceptibility in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica.
R/CBT-30 1995-1996

Modelling Framework

W. M. Kemp, J. W. Gooch, and J. E. Baker, Maryland

Ecosystem processes related to transport, partitioning and effects of organic contaminants in Chesapeake Bay: a simulation modeling study.
R/CBT-21 1992-1993

C. J. Madden, J. R. Kucklich and J. Baker, Maryland

Quantitative Evaluation of Contaminants in a Chesapeake Bay Region of Concern: A Simulation model of exposure and bioaccumulation in Baltimore Harbor.
R/CBT-26 1995-1996