Research Product

The Gulf Breeze Environmental Research Laboratory at Gulf Breeze, Florida, an associate laboratory of the National Environmental Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon, has been conducting research on the effects of pesticides in the marine environment since 1958. Since that time the laboratory has analyzed over twenty thousand samples for these pollutants in water, sediment, oysters, crabs, fish, birds and mammals. From 1965 until 1972 this facility analyzed over eight thousand samples for the National Pesticide Monitoring Program as reported by Butler. This report describes analytical methods employed by this program, some recent studies in water analysis, and the need for adequate analytical quality control in marine monitoring.