Great Lakes Environmental Center - GLEC has diverse capabilities focused on aquatic/sediment toxicology & environmental assessment. Provides description of services, projects & links. Go

Toxic Chemicals in Coastal Sediment - National Ocean Service Office of Response & Restoration. Toxicity-related guidelines to determine ecological risk, for use in evaluating sediment contaminated with toxic chemicals. Go

University of California at Davis Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory - Provides activities, publications, staff & resources. Go

Biochemistry in Marine Research - Comet assay, apoptosis, cell culture & biomarkers for marine research are topics on Dr. Ulrike Kammann's homepage. Also has pictures of ships & some fish screensaver downloads. Go

Neurotoxin Fish Kills - Pfiesteria & Chattonella subsalsa aquatic health concerns in cold water climates. Go

Toxic Chemicals in Coastal Environments (NOAA) - The US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Office of Response & Restoration, the Coastal Protection & Restoration Division assesses the effects of contaminants on the environment, assists in developing protective cleanups & coordinates projects to restore affected rivers, estuaries & other coastal ecosystems. Go

Species & Seasonality Aspects of Marine Biotoxins - Information on analysis of samples of shell fish for paralytic shell fish poisoning toxin (PSP - saxitoxins) & amnesic shell fish poisoning (ASP - domoic acid) by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). Go

Marine Biotoxins - About natural toxic algae in the coastal environment. From the Center for Coastal Environmental Health & Biomolecular Research Biotoxin division of the Department of Commerce, NOAA, & NOS. Go

LimCo International - Consulting & research bureau specialized in aquatic ecology, sediment toxicology, biotests, pollution assessment & pollution control. Description of services & publications. Go

Tubifex Test of Pesticides, Fertilizers & Other Chemicals - Inexpensive laboratory test with the annelid Tubifex tubifex Müll. for pesticides & other substances in a water-soil medium. Test determines a general toxicity level (LC50). Provides results of tests of 300+ pesticides, fertilizers & other chemicals. Go

Aquatic Toxicology - An international journal on mechanisms of & responses to toxic agents in the aquatic environment. Available on line with free access to table of contents, abstracts & search. Go