Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut
Tags: contaminants, biology, benthic invertebrates, toxicology
| Principal Investigator: | Gandia, Ruben (1) |
| Licence Number: | 12390 |
| Organization: | Beak Consultants Ltd. |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1993
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1993 |
| Project Team: | B. Doige, G. Harris, J. Hunt, S. Jewitt, K. Reimer, M. Stabler (Jt. Secret.), H. Welch (DFO), B. Ferguson (DFO), D. Pike (DFO) |
Objective(s): To develop a test protocol for using two (or more) arctic infaunal amphipod species (B. affinis and O. littoralis) in the 10-acute test for sediment toxicity to be published by Environment Canada; to develop a test protocol for using arctic (and perhaps other) mysid shrimp to monitor the acute toxicity of liquid-phase substances; to compare the sensitivities of the selected cold water species to warmer water species currently being used as standard test organisms in Canada and the US; to develop Canadian mysid protocol/validation with east and west coast species; to generate data on temperature and lighting preferences of selected species.
Project Description: Clean and contaminated sediments, effluent and liquid municipal waste, and selected species of amphipods will be collected by government and non-government researchers as other field research is conducted. All collections will be shipped to the Beak laboratory for analyses. Testing will involve a measurement of the contaminants in the sediments as well as measuring the degree of toxicity that these contaminants are to marine organisms.
