{"id":2350,"date":"2014-06-15T21:54:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T21:54:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-09-24T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:13:57","slug":"pah-in-coquina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/pah-in-coquina\/","title":{"rendered":"PAH in Coquina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PAH concentrations in Coquina (Donax spp.) on a sandy beach shoreline impacted by a marine oil spill<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Typically, mussels and oysters are used in the Gulf of Mexico as biological indicators of coastal pollution. \u00a0These organisms populate low energy, estuarine regions. \u00a0What kinds of organisms can scientists look at in higher energy regions, like sandy coastlines? \u00a0C-IMAGE researcher, Richard Snyder, and his collaborators at the University of West Florida take a look at the PAH concentrations in Coquina clams who make their home in higher energy environments and found higher levels of PAHs in the clams than in the surrounding sand after the BP MC252 well failure. \u00a0With continued sampling, they found a gradual decrease of PAH concentrations in Coquina tissues.<\/p>\n<p>Ref:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0025326X14002288\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #4571a4; opacity: 0.8; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 18px;\">Snyder, R. A., Vestel, A., Barnes, G., Pelot, R., Ederington-Hagy, M., Hileman, PAH concentrations in Coquina (Donax spp.) on a sandy beach shoreline impacted by a marine oil spill, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 83, 87-91, 2014<\/a>.<span style=\"color: #656565; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAH concentrations in Coquina (Donax spp.) on a sandy beach shoreline impacted by a marine oil spill Typically, mussels and oysters are used in the Gulf of Mexico as biological indicators of coastal pollution. \u00a0These organisms populate low energy, estuarine&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-work","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}