Additional Web Links on Toxics

Olympic National Park, WA

General Facts

• EPA - Dioxin Overview
• USGS Fact Sheet 146-00 "Mercury in the Environment"
• USGS Fact Sheet 152-95 "Pesticides in the Atmosphere"
• National Park Service "Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia"
• THE ALJOYA CONSENSUS STATEMENT: Long-Range Atmospheric Transport and Effects of Contaminants in the North Pacific Region: Knowledge, Concerns & Research Needs

Impacts of Airborne Toxics on Surface Waters

• EPA and CCME Metaalicus Project
• U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1225--"The Quality of Our Nation's Waters--Nutrients and Pesticides: Sources of Nutrients and Pesticides"
• USGS Water Resources Investigations Report CO-4053 "Organochlorine Pesticides and PCBs in Stream Sediment and Aquatic Biota--Initial Results from the National Water-Quality Assessment Program, 1992-1995"

Organizations Involved With Toxics

• United Nations Environment Programme: Mercury
• North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation: Mercury Hotspots
• EPA - Mercury
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
• The International POPs Elimination Network
• EPA - Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network
• National Institute of Health - TOXNET
• Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
• USDA Forest Service Lichen Site
• American Bryological and Lichenological Society
• Canadian Northern Contaminants Program: Contaminants in Traditionally Harvested Foods
• US Fish and Wildlife Environmental Contaminants Program
• United Nations Environment Programme: Persistent Organic Pollutants
• Circumpolar Conservation Union