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 Organization:
Massachusetts Licensed Site Professional Association
(LSPA)
Internet Address:
Description:
"The LSPA operates this World Wide Web site to assist LSPs and environmental
consultants in staying current with the LSP Regulations, the Massachusetts
Contingency Plan (MCP), and environmental matters in general." This site
contains several links to risk assessment organizations and web sites used to
gather information for risk assessments.
Organization:
National Shellfisheries Association (NSA)
Internet Address:
Description:
The National Shellfisheries Association is an "international organization of
scientists, management officials and members of industry, concerned with the
biology, ecology, production, economics and management of shellfish resources B
clams, oysters, mussels, scallops, snails, shrimp, lobsters, crabs, among many
other species of commercial importance." The NSA publishes the Journal of
Shellfish Research as well as a Quarterly Newsletter which are available to view
on-line.
Organization:
National Status and Trends Program, Mussel and Mollusk
Watch
Internet Address:
Description:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Ocean Service,
Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment (ORCA), has a National
Status and Trends Program that, since 1984, has monitored spatial and temporal
distributions of chemical contamination and biological responses to that
contamination" across the United States. "Temporal trends are being monitored
through the Mussel Watch project that analyzes mussels and oysters collected
annually at about 200 of those sites. Spatial trends have been described on a
national scale from chemical concentrations measured in surface sediments
collected by both the Mussel Watch and The Benthic Surveillance Projects from
240 sites distributed throughout the coastal and estuarine United States." The raw
data from these projects are available on-line.
Organization:
RiskWORLD
Internet Address:
Description:
RiskWORLD has links to many risk assessment and risk management sites.
Organization:
Society for Risk Analysis
Internet Address:
Description:
"The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) provides an open forum for all those
interested in risk analysis. Risk analysis is broadly defined to include risk
assessment, risk characterization, risk communication, risk management, and
policy relating to risk...Our membership is multidisciplinary and international."
The website of the SRA features links to sites of scientific societies or
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Appendix C Information Sources
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