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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Weight of evidence approach"”.
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Climate change in the newsroom : journalists' evolving standards of objectivity when covering global warming
… well be the most important environmental issue of our time. For journalists covering the environmental beat, there is no bigger story - and none more treacherous. Journalists have been accused of distorting the scientific consensus by applying "false balance" to those who say anthropogenic …
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Reconstructing the depositional history of the Eel River paleo meltwater channel, northeastern Indiana using sediment provenance techniques
The outwash deposits of the Eel River paleo meltwater channel in DeKalb and Allen Counties, Indiana predominantly originated from the Erie Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, but do contain some sediment from the Saginaw Lobe. This determination helps clarify the ice dynamics and Last Glacial Maximum …
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Análisis Ecotoxicológico Integrado de la Contaminación Marina en los Sedimentos de la Costa De Murcia: El Caso de Portmán, Sudeste - España
… seriously heavy metal contaminated sediments of the Mediterranean Sea. From 1958 to 1991, approximately 50 million tons of mine tailings were dumped into the bay, completely filling up the bay and dispersing over an extensive area of the continental platform and continental slope. The …
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Computational Methods in Support of Chemical Risk Assessment
… in order to establish safe exposure levels of chemicals to which individuals are exposed. The process of risk assessment traditionally involves the generation of toxicological studies from which health based guidance values are derived for a specific chemical. For low level exposures to …
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Investigating the cause(s) of benthic macroinvertebrate community impairment downstream of two Saskatchewan uranium operations
… community impairment downstream of both the Key Lake and Rabbit Lake uranium operations in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The objective of this research was to try to identify the cause(s) of these impacts using a weight-of-evidence approach. Given that sediments generally …
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Caracterización de la calidad de sedimentos afectados por vertidos de petróleo: comparación entre casos de vertidos accidentales (impacto agudo) frente a derrames continuos (impacto crónico)
… calidad de los sedimentos dentro del marco del "Weight of Evidence approach" que ha permitido obtener resultados más objetivos. Se ha demostrado como tras el vertido los PAHs ifieron el principal contaminante de la costa gallega. Se ha identificado la existencia de fuentes de metales en el Parque …
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Assessing variability in standardised harvest rates from shore-based recreational fishing surveys
… to communities and stakeholders. The popularity of recreational fishing requires both stewardship and monitoring for sustainable conservation of resources. In Western Australia, recreational fishing is highly valued with 30% of the population participating each year, and with more than 50% of …