Subsistence Restoration - Rita Miraglia

[couture322]

New contact for these data: NWFSC - Seattle Reached out to Miraglia who passed the buck to James (Jim) Fall who referred me to NOAA Northwest fisheries science center for data: James 3/6/13: "Hello. Rita Miraglia left ADF&G quite a while ago (10 years at least) and now works at the BIA in Anchorage. I suspect she’d have little to add at this point to what I can provide regarding this project, and would likely just refer you to me. The best place to start is the final report for project 93017. It looks like the primary data collection aspect for this project was the collection of samples of subsistence resources and testing them for potential hydrocarbon contamination. The report, mostly in the appendices, provides lists of samples and tables of results. The tests were done at the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Conservation Division, in Seattle, where more details on the test results are likely archived. I suggest contacting them directly for information on the raw data and any metadata not found in the final report. Unfortunately, after so many years I don’t have a contact name for them anymore; perhaps those who worked on this project in the mid 1990s are still there. I hope this is helpful but please let me know if need additional assistance."

Emailed a few of the general NWFSC email addresses in March 2013 5/3 called and left a message on the general line emailed Robert Keng (science data manager) through the NWFSC site, call if not response (206-860-5612)

Some data in reports. Digitize these and make a package from report info.

[JClark24]

Extracted the raw data and converted the tables into csv files. Created the morpho package and uploaded the data. The package was then saved to the network after some minor issues. After

Emailed both the NWFSC general inquiries address and sent an email to the science and research director, Dr. John Stein. Robert Keng who was previously emailed about the reports is no longer on the NWFSC's staff directory.

[JClark24]

Received a response from Jennie Bolton who works in the Environmental Chemistry program of NWFSC.

3/31/2016: John,

My name is Jennie Bolton, and I'm the data manager for the Center's Environmental Chemistry Program.

I've looked over the metadata file you've created for the subsistence report, and the chemistry part looks good. I'd just like to clarify a few things.

Regarding the FACs done by HPLC-fluorescence, NPH Equivalents is the concentration of all compounds that fluoresce at the same wavelength as NPH, so it encompasses not just NPH metabolites, but also presumably those of all of the alkylated NPHs as well. These are quantitated using the response of NPH, so it is an estimate of the concentration of these metabolites. The same holds for PHN Equivalents as well. For BaP it's a little more complicated, as only very low levels of BaP or alkylated benzopyrenes would be present in the oil that was spilled, so BaP Equivalents if detected may reflect other sources (e.g. pyrogenic).

In addition, for the chemical analysis of the alkylated PAHs in tissues of subsistence items from these villages, I can provide you with some more detailed metadata, including CAS numbers for many of the compounds as well as which compounds in our standards were used as reference compounds to calculate the concentrations of the various alkylated PAH homolog groups and which surrogate standards were used for each homolog group or individual PAH. You may or may not find this useful. I have attached an Excel sheet containing those metadata. Please let me know if you have any questions. I was around back in the days when we did these analyses, as well, so I have some institutional knowledge of what were were doing back then.

Cheers,

Jennie