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Great Salt Lake Water Quality Steering Committee

General Contractor Instructions to Principal Investigators and Laboratories

 

 

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Data Quality Objectives

• Developing a Site-specific Selenium Standard for Great Salt Lake
• Great Salt Lake Project 2A: Synoptic Survey of Selenium in Periphyton and Brine Fly Larvae from the Benthic Zone of the Great Salt Lake (Preliminary Study)
• Great Salt Lake Project 2B: Synoptic Survey of Selenium in Water, Seston, and Artemia
• Great Salt Lake Project 3: Measurement and Modeling of Selenium Loads to Great Salt Lake
• Great Salt Lake Project 4: Measurement of Selenium Flux
• Great Salt Lake Project 5: Predictions of Selenium Accumulation in Artemia franciscana Under Conditions Realistic for the Populations Residing in the Great Salt Lake
• Project 1A: Concentration and Effects of Selenium in Shorebirds
• Project 1B: Concentrations and Effects of Selenium in Gulls, Grebes, and Ducks

Standard Operating Procedures

• Avian Diet Sampling
• Avian Egg Collection
• Determination of Dietary Selenium Intake and Assimilation Efficiency: Brine Shrimp Kinetics Study
• Determination of Water-borne Selenium Assimilation Efficiency
• Dietary Acclimation Experiment: Brine Shrimp Kinetics Study
• Egg Breakout
• Feeding Rate Experiment: Brine Shrimp Kinetics Study
• Flow Measurement
• Harvest of Adult Birds
• Sampling of Benthic Zone
• Sediment Trap Samples
• Sediment via Eckman Dredge
• Seston Sampling
• Total and Dissolved Water Samples
• Total Dissolved Gas
• Uptake From Water; Se-75: Brine Shrimp Kinetics Study
• Volatile Selenium
• Water Acclimation Experiment: Brine Shrimp Kinetics Study

Other Documents

• Great Salt Lake Water Quality Studies Quality Assurance Project Plan

Revised: November 3, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

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