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Heavy Metals In Seaweeds From A Polluted Estuary In Coastal Maine, Ian D. Medeiros, Arthur C. Mathieson, Nishanta Rajakaruna
Heavy Metals In Seaweeds From A Polluted Estuary In Coastal Maine, Ian D. Medeiros, Arthur C. Mathieson, Nishanta Rajakaruna
Biological Sciences
Seaweeds (macroalgae) accumulate heavy metals from seawater and can therefore serve as biological monitors of marine pollution. In this paper, we present data on the tissue chemistry of seaweeds from the area of Callahan Mine, an intertidal copper and zinc mine in Brooksville, ME, USA, abandoned in the 1970s and now designated as a Superfund site. The mine is located on the Goose Pond estuary, which drains into the ocean via a tidal waterfall at Goose Falls. Seaweed tissue samples from this estuary had the same relative concentrations of metals as had been reported previously in water samples from this …