Science for Alaska Lecture Series

Science for Alaska Guides 2011
Links to all the reading lists for the Fairbanks 2011 Lecture Series, including this one.
Healthy Alaska: What's In Our Fish?
Thawing Permafrost: What Does it Mean for the Arctic?
Lessons Learned From the Gulf Oil Spill
Survivor Kasatochi: Insects After the Volcanic Eruption
Whale Tales: A Thirty-Year Perspective on Humpback Whales in Alaska Waters
Websites
Fish Consumption Guidelines for Alaskans
http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/eh/fish/default.htm#guidelines
Alaska Department of Fish & Game
Occurrence of antibiotics in water from fish hatcheries
http://ks.water.usgs.gov/pubs/fact-sheets/fs.120-02.html
National Lake Fish Tissue Study
http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/techguidance/study/index.cfm
Effects of marine oil pollution on economy and human health
Books
Silent snow : the slow poisoning of the Arctic / Marla Cone. New York : Grove Press, 2005.
Pacific Salmon environmental and life history models : advancing science for sustainable salmon in the future / edited by E. Eric Knudsen, J. Hal Michael. Bethesda, Md. : American Fisheries Society, 2009.
Four fish : the future of the last wild food / Paul Greenberg. New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
An introduction to pollution science. / Roy M. Harrison, editor. Cambridge, UK : Royal Society of Chemistry, 2006.
Assessment of fish habitat, water quality, and selected contaminants in streambed sediments in Noyes Slough, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2001-2002 / Ben W. Kennedy et al. Anchorage, Alaska : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2004.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri034328/pdf/wrir034328.pdf
The toxicology of fishes / edited by Richard T. Di Giulio, David E. Hinton. Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2008.
Handbook of ecotoxicology (2nd ed.) / edited by David J. Hoffman et al. Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2002.
The national survey of mercury concentrations in fish: data base summary 1990-1995.
Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Standards and Applied Science Division, 1999.
http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/outreach/upload/2000_10_30_fish_mercurydata.pdf
Articles
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water. (2009). EPA releases report on fish contamination in U.S. lakes and reservoirs.
http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/techguidance/study/upload/2009_9_30_fish_study_data_factsheet.pdf
Raloff, J. (2006). Macho Moms: perchlorate pollutant masculinizes fish. Science News, 170 (7), 99-100.
Peterson, Charles H.; Rice, Stanley D.; Short, Jeffrey W.; Esler, Daniel; Bodkin, James L; Ballachey, Brenda E.; Irons, David B. (2003). Long-term ecosystem response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Science, 302 (5653), 2082-2086.
West, Patrick C. (1992). Health concerns for fish-eating tribes? EPA Journal, 18 (1), 15-16.
Pyhtila, Holly (2008). Plastics, pesticides, and pills are contaminating our drinking supply. Earth Island Journal, 23 (3), 45-48.
Arnold, Scott M. et al. (2005) Human biomonitoring to optimize fish consumption advice: reducing uncertainty when evaluating benefits and risks. American Journal of Public Health, 95 (3), 393-397.
Hardell, S, et al. (2010). Levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and three organochlorine pesticides in fish from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. PLOS ONE 5 (8), e12396.
Letcher, R.J., et al. (2010). Exposure and effects assessment of persistent organohalogen contaminants in arctic wildlife and fish. Science of the Total Environment 408 (15) S1, 2995-3043.
Weber, J., et al. (2010). Endosulfan, a global pesticide: a review of its fate in the environment and occurrence in the Arctic. Science of the Total Environment 408 (15) S1, 2966-2984.
Wania, F., MacKay, D. (1993). Global fractionation and cold condensation of low volatility organochlorine compounds in polar regions. Ambio 22 (1) 10-18.
Fisk, A.T., Hobson, K.A.,
Norstrom, R.J. (2001). Influence of chemical and biological factors on trophic
transfer of persistent organic pollutants in the
northwater polynya marine food web. Environmental
Science and Technology 35 (4) 732-738.

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