Prince William Sound, Alaska Ballast Sediment Study 1998-1999
Data provider
Anson Hines, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland.
Location
Ports in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
Summary
Collected 11 samples from the ballast tanks of 10 vessels.
Info derived
Abundance and taxonomy of foraminifera in ballast sediment collected from vessels arriving in Port Valdez, Prince William Sound, Alaska from domestic (San Francisco, CA, Puget Sound, WA, and Long Beach, CA) and international (China, Japan, and Korea) ports. Also looking for the invasive foraminifera Trochammina hadai.
Results of a survey of samples collected from 1930 to 2024 along the west coast of the United States from Alaska to San Diego, California as well as Honolulu, Hawaii for the presence of the Asian nonindigenous benthic foraminifera Trochammina hadai.
