For this report, researchers analyzed mussels for oil concentrations and genetic response to the April 2020 spill, both near and far away from the spill site.
The goal of this pilot study was to determine if transcriptomic analysis of mussel tissue would be useful as a part of the Council’s Long-Term Environmental Monitoring Program (LTEMP).
This pilot project provided funding to evaluate if a new environmental monitoring method, transcriptomics, could be used to improve the Council’s Long-Term Environmental Monitoring Program (LTEMP).
This report contains information to help identify potential or actual problems pertaining to the operation and maintenance of the Valdez Marine Terminal’s (VMT) Ballast Water Treatment Facility (BWTF) and Sewage Treatment Plant (STP).