A brown shrimp stock model was developed at the NMFS Galveston Laboratory to assess the effects of the Mega Borg oil spill on the brown shrimp population along the Texas coast. Water and sediment samples from near the Mega ...

Western sandpipers (Calidris maun) were studied at an oilfield brinewater discharge site near Corpus Christi, Texas, and at a reference site near Galveston, Texas. Morphological indices, hepatic mono oxygenase activities, ...

Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is the initial rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of polyamines, the organic cations of the cell. Expression of ODC is absolutely required for the growth of all cell types. Ornithine ...

Christmas Bay, of the Galveston Bay system, has no point source discharges and minimal non-point contaminant sources. Due to its excellent water quality and habitats, this site was used to obtain baseline or control data ...

A preliminary survey and site identification for a U.S. monitoring program to assess environmental concentrations of tributylin, and its degradation intermediates, was conducted in the following four estuaries or lakes: ...