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Historical Programs

QAPP

Striplin, P.L., 1988. Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program: Marine Sediment Quality Implementation Plan. Washington State Department of Ecology, Environmental Investigations and Laboratory Services Program, Olympia, WA.  Publication No. 88-37.

Data years 1989-1995

Llansó, R.L., S. Aasen, and K. Welch. 1998. Marine Sediment Monitoring Program - I. Chemistry and Toxicity Testing, 1989-1995. Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA. Publication No. 98-323. 101 pp. + appendices.

Llansó, R.L., S. Aasen, and K. Welch. 1998. Marine Sediment Monitoring Program - II. Distribution and Structure of Benthic Communities in Puget Sound, 1989-1993. Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA. Publication No. 98-328. 114 pp. + appendices.

Data year 1992

Dutch, M., H. Dietrich, and P. Striplin. 1993. Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program 1992: Marine Sediment Monitoring Task Annual Report 1992. Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia WA. Publication 93-87, 50 pp. + appendices.

EcoChem, Inc. 1993. Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program 1992: Marine Sediment Monitoring Data Validation Report. Prepared for Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA.

Data year 1991

EILS. 1994. Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program: Marine Sediment Monitoring Task Annual Report 1991. Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia WA. Publication 94-93, . 491 pp.

BCI, 1991. Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program 1991: Marine Sediment Monitoring Data Validation Report. Prepared for Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA.

Data year 1990

Striplin, P., P. Sparks-McConkey, D. Davis, and F. Svendsen. 1992. Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program, Marine Sediment Monitoring Program: Annual Report 1990. Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia WA. Publication 92-47. 39 pp. + appendices.

PTI Environmental Services. 1991. Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program Quality Assurance Reviews of Chemical and Bioassay Analyses – 1990 Field Survey. Prepared for Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA. 109 pp. + appendices.

Data year 1989

Tetra Tech, Inc. 1990. Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program 1989: Marine Sediment Monitoring. Washington State Department of Ecology Publication 90e76, Olympia WA. 262 pp. + appendices.

Long-Term/Temporal Monitoring

Partridge, V., K. Welch, S. Aasen, and M. Dutch. 2005. Temporal Monitoring of Puget Sound Sediments: Results of the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program, 1989-2000. Washington state Department of Ecology Publication 05-03-016.

Dutch, M., V. Partridge, S. Aasen, and K. Welch. 2005. Changes and Trends in Puget Sound Sediments: Results of the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program, 1989-2000. Washington State Department of Ecology Publication 05-03-024.

Partnership with NOAA

Long, E., M. Dutch, S. Aasen, K. Welch and M.J. Hameed. 2005. Spatial extent of degraded sediment quality in Puget Sound (Washington State, U.S.A.) based upon measures of the sediment quality triad. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 111: 173-222. To order a copy of this article contact http://springerlink.metapress.com

Long, E., M. Dutch, S. Aasen, and K. Welch. 2004. Sediment Quality Triad Index in Puget Sound. Washington State Dept. of Ecology Publication No. 04-03-008, Olympia, WA.

Long, E., M. Dutch, S. Aasen, K. Welch, and M.J. Hameedi. 2003. Chemical Contamination, Acute Toxicity in Laboratory Tests, and Benthic Impacts in Sediments of Puget Sound: A summary of results of the joint 1997-1999 Ecology/NOAA survey. Washington State Dept. of Ecology Publication No. 03-03-049, Olympia, WA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Technical Memo No. 163, Silver Spring, MD. 101 pp. + appendix.*

*Note: These spatial extent calculations have been updated after sampling additional regions of Northern PS in 2002 and 2003. (Current Spatial Temporal Monitoring Program, Baseline Revision poster)

Long, E. R., M.J. Hameedi. A. Robertson, M. Dutch, S. Aasen, K. Welch, S. Magoon, R. S. Carr, T. Johnson, J. Biedenbach, K. J. Scott, C. Mueller, and J. Anderson. 2002. Sediment Quality in Puget Sound. Year 3 Report - Southern Puget Sound. Washington State Dept. of Ecology Publication No. 02-03-033, Olympia, WA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Technical Memo No. 153, Silver Spring, MD. 182pp + appendices.

Long, E. R., M.J. Hameedi. A. Robertson, M. Dutch, S. Aasen, K. Welch, S. Magoon, R. S. Carr, T. Johnson, J. Biedenbach, K. J. Scott, C. Mueller, and J. Anderson. 2000. Sediment Quality in Puget Sound. Year 2 Report - Central Puget Sound. Washington State Dept. of Ecology Publication No. 00-03-055, Olympia, WA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Technical Memo No. 147, Silver Spring, MD. 198 pp. + appendices.

Long, E. R., M.J. Hameedi. A. Robertson, M. Dutch, S. Aasen, C. Ricci, K. Welch, W. Kammin, R. S. Carr, T. Johnson, J. Biedenbach, K. J. Scott, C. Mueller, and J. Anderson. 1999. Sediment Quality in Puget Sound. Year 1 Report - Northern Puget Sound. Washington State Dept. of Ecology Publication No. 99-347, Olympia, WA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Technical Memo No. 139, Silver Spring, MD. 221 pp. + appendices.

QAPP

Dutch, M., E. Long, W. Kammin, and S. Redman. 1998. Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program Marine Sediment Monitoring Component - Final Quality Assurance Project and Implementation Plan. Measures of bioeffects associated with toxicants in Puget Sound: Survey of sediment contamination, toxicity, and benthic macroinfaunal community structure. Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA. 31 pp.

Presentations

Dutch, M., S. Aasen. and E. Long. 2004. PCB Aroclor Concentrations in Puget Sound Sediments. In T.W. Droscher and D.A. Fraser (eds). Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference. Presentation.

Dutch, M., S. Aasen. and E. Long. 2004. PCB Congener Concentrations in Puget Sound Sediments. In T.W. Droscher and D.A. Fraser (eds). Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference. Presentation.

Long, E., M. Dutch, S. Aasen, K. Welch and M.J. Hameed. 2003. Relationship Among Elements of the Sediment Quality Triad in Puget Sound. Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference. Presentation.

Spatial/Temporal Monitoring

Dutch, M., S. Aasen, E. Long, and K. Welch. (In preparation.) A Revision of the Sediment Quality Triad Index in Puget Sound (1997-2003). Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA.  XX pp.

Long, E., S. Aasen, M. Dutch, K. Welch and V. Partridge. (In preparation.) 2002-2003 Sediment Quality Assessment of the Bays and Inlets of the San Juan Archipelago, eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound. Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA.  XX pp.

QAPP

Dutch, M., E. Long, S. Aasen, K. Welch and V. Partridge. (In Preparation.) Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program Marine Sediment Monitoring Component - Revision to the Quality Assurance Project and Implementation Plan. Spatial/Temporal Monitoring. Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA.

Presentations

Dutch, M., S. Aasen. 2007. Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) In Puget Sound Sediments (2004 – 2006). Poster presentation - 2007 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference, Vancouver, BC.  Poster.

Dutch, M., S. Aasen, E. Long, K. Welch. 2005. Concentrations of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDE) in Puget Sound  Sediments.  In T.W. Droscher and D.A. Fraser (eds). Proceedings of the 2005 Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Research Conference.  Poster.

Aasen, S., Dutch M., Long E.R., and Welch K.I. Sediment Quality In Puget Sound:  1997 - 2003 Baseline Conditions. Poster.

Aasen, S., Dutch,M., K. Welch, E. Long. 2005.  Sediment Quality in the San Juan Islands, Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Admiralty Inlet. In T.W. Droscher and D.A. Fraser (eds). Proceedings of the 2005 Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Research Conference.  Poster.

Dutch, M., S. Aasen, E. Long, V. Partridge and K. Welch. 2004. Revision of the Sampling Design for the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program (PSAMP) Sediment Component. In T.W. Droscher and D.A. Fraser (eds). Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference. Poster.  Presentation.

Hood Canal

Long, E.R., S. Aasen, M. Dutch, K. Welch, and V.  Partridge and D. Shull. 2007. Relationships between the Composition of the Benthos and Sediment and Water Quality Parameters in Hood Canal, WA: Task IV – Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Program. Washington State Department of Ecology Publication No. 07-03-040, Olympia, WA and Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.  197 pp. + appendices.

Dutch M., E.R. Long, S. Aasen, V. Partridge, K. Welch, and D. Shull. 2007. The Influence of Sediment Quality and Dissolved Oxygen on Benthic Invertebrate Communities in Hood Canal. Washington State Department of Ecology Publication No. 07-03-047, Olympia, WA and Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.  4 pp.

Dutch, M. 2007.  Focus on Hood Canal: Relationships between Sediment Quality, Dissolved Oxygen, and Benthic Invertebrates in Hood Canal. 2007.  Washington State Department of Ecology Publication No. 07-03-048, Olympia, WA and Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. 2 pp.

Long, E., S. Aasen, M. Dutch, K. Welch and V. Partridge. (In preparation.) Sediment Quality Status Report: Sediment quality assessment of the Hood Canal Region of Puget Sound. Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA.

Presentations

Dutch M., E.R. Long, S. Aasen, V. Partridge, K. Welch, and D. Shull. 2008. The Influence of Sediment Quality and Dissolved Oxygen on Benthic Invertebrate Communities in Hood Canal. Poster presentation - 2008 PERS Conference, Newport, Oregon; the 2008 PNW SETAC Conference, Corvallis, Oregon; ad the 2008 South Sound Science Symposium, Lacey, Washington. Poster.

Dutch, M., E. Long, S. Aasen, K. Welch, and V. Partridge. 2007. Relationships between Benthos, Sediment Quality, and Dissolved Oxygen Levels in Hood Canal, WA. Oral presentation - 2007 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference, Vancouver, BC.  Presentation.

Dutch, M., S. Aasen, E. Long. 2007. Chemical Contamination and Toxicity in Sediments from Hood Canal, WA (1952 – 2005). Poster presentation - 2007 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference, Vancouver, BC. Poster.

Dutch, M., S. Aasen, E. Long, K. Welch. 2007. Infaunal Invertebrate Assemblage Structure in Hood Canal, WA (1989 – 2005). Poster presentation - 2007 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference, Vancouver, BC.  Poster.

Dutch, M., E. Long, S. Aasen, and K. Welch. Benthic infaunal community structure in Hood Canal in relation to sediment and water quality variables. Poster.

Dutch, M., S. Aasen, K. Welch, E. Long, B. Grantham, D. Shull. 2005. Relationships between benthic infaunal community structure and dissolved oxygen levels in bottom waters of Hood Canal. In T.W. Droscher and D.A. Fraser (eds). Proceedings of the 2005 Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Research Conference. Presentation.

Aasen, S., Dutch,M., K. Welch, E. Long. 2005. Sediment Quality In Hood Canal. In T.W. Droscher and D.A. Fraser (eds). Proceedings of the 2005 Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Research Conference.  Poster.

Urban Waters Initiative

Dutch, M. V. Partridge, and S. Aasen.  2008.  Sediment Monitoring for Ecology's Urban Waters Initiative.  Presentation to Ecology's Southwest Regional Office - Hazardous Waste Treatment Section meeting 04-07-08.  Presentation.

Partridge, V., S. Aasen, and M. Dutch.  2008.  Ecology's Urban Waters Initiative - Assessing Changes in Sediment Quality in Urban Bays.  Poster presentation for the 2008 PERS Conference, Newport, Or.  Poster.

Western Coastal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) Pilot

Wilson, S. and V. Partridge. 2007. Condition of Outer Coastal Estuaries of Washington State, 1999. A Statistical Summary. Washington State Department of Ecology Publication No. 07-03-012, Olympia, WA. 76 pp. + appendices.

Partridge, V. 2007. Condition of Coastal Waters of Washington State, 2000-2003. A Statistical Summary. Washington State Department of Ecology Publication No. 07-03-051, Olympia, WA. 146 pp. + appendices.

EPA publications

United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2007. National Estuary Program Coastal Condition Report. Office of Water/Office of Research and Development. Washington, DC 20460. EPA-842/B-06/001.

United States Environmental Protection Agency. 2004. National Coastal Condition Report II. Office of Research and Development/Office of Water. Washington, DC 20460. EPA-620/R-03/002.

United States Environmental Protection Agency. 2001. National Coastal Condition Report. Office of Research and Development/Office of Water. Washington, DC 20460. EPA-620/R-01/005.

QAPP

U.S. EPA. 2001. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP):  National Coastal Assessment Quality Assurance Project Plan 2001-2004. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Gulf Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze, FL. EPA/620/R-01/002. ii

Puget Sound Update

The PSAMP sediment component data is also published in the 1991, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2007 editions of the Puget Sound Update, a periodic publication of the Puget Sound Partnership.