NOAA Mussel Watch Project

The longest continuous contaminant monitoring program in U.S. coastal waters. The project analyzes chemical and biological contaminant trends in sediment and bivalve tissue collected at over 280 coastal sites from 1986 to present.

The TDI-Brooks team has over 20 years (1984 to present) of previous involvement in this marquee national environmental monitoring program. For 11 years (1984 to 1996), Dr. Brooks at Texas A&M University directed the Gulf of Mexico portion of this program. In 1994, Dr. Brooks' team was awarded all three U.S. coasts on this project for the five-year Period III contract. The Period IV (2000 to 2005) contract and this new Period V award (2005-2010) will continue the involvement of the TDI-Brooks team on this project until the Year 2010.

Dr. Roger Fay, TDI-Brooks Intl. Field Manager for the NOAA Mussel Watch Project, was credited with several photographs in a recent NOAA article:

NOAA ANALYSIS FOLLOWING WORLD TRADE CENTER COLLAPSE FINDS LITTLE SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN COASTAL CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATIONS — NOAA found in a recent analysis of sites in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary that the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001 caused no significant changes in concentrations of two groups of contaminant compounds.

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