Alaska Marine Mammal Tissue Archival Project: Revised Collection Protocol

摘要

In 1987, the Outer Continental Shelf Studies Program of the Minerals ManagementService (MMS) provided funds to the Ocean Assessments Division (OAD) Alaska Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to establish and conduct a program of collecting tissues from Alaska marine mammals and storing them under conditions which would allow for future analyses for substances indicative of contamination from offshore oil and gas, and mining activities. Cataloging and archiving of samples are conducted at the Alaska Marine Mammal Tissue Archive, which is maintained by NIST in its National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank (NBSB), Gaithersburg, Maryland. The report presents the protocol used in the collection and archival process.