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EPA research vessel to make ‘Bold’ visit
Monday, June 02, 2008 | No comments posted.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency researchers will be poking into dredge material off Coos Bay, Bandon and Brookings in June.
This will be the ocean survey vessel Bold’s first Northwest appearance along the coast.
The vessel is equipped with state-of-the art sampling, mapping, and analysis equipment including side scan sonar, underwater video, water sampling instruments, and sediment sampling devices, which scientists use in various monitoring activities. The vessel will study water and sediment quality.
A converted U.S. Navy T-AGOS class ship, the Bold is 224 feet long and 43 feet wide. EPA acquired it in 2004. The ship and its crew collect water quality and sediment samples, fish and other organisms in the Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
“The OSV Bold represents EPA’s technological leadership in environmental protection and cutting edge aquatic research,” Elin Miller, EPA regional administrator in Seattle, said in a press release.
The Bold just finished seafloor monitoring off Arcata, Calif.
During its tour of duty in the Northwest this summer, the ship’s crew will:
* Study discharges of Alaskan cruise ships in the coastal sea between Juneau and Skagway.
* Monitor ambient dioxin concentrations in sediments at background reference areas throughout Puget Sound in Washington in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Washington Department of Ecology and the Washington Department of Natural Resources.
* Monitor dissolved oxygen and nutrient concentrations throughout Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca in collaboration with the Washington Department of Ecology.
The ship also worked in the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, serving as a floating laboratory and research platform. The science teams did testing and analysis in the Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi Sound and the Gulf. The water, sediment and fish tissue samples were analyzed and contributed to the comprehensive database collected of pathogens and pollutants release following the storms.
This will be the ocean survey vessel Bold’s first Northwest appearance along the coast.
The vessel is equipped with state-of-the art sampling, mapping, and analysis equipment including side scan sonar, underwater video, water sampling instruments, and sediment sampling devices, which scientists use in various monitoring activities. The vessel will study water and sediment quality.
A converted U.S. Navy T-AGOS class ship, the Bold is 224 feet long and 43 feet wide. EPA acquired it in 2004. The ship and its crew collect water quality and sediment samples, fish and other organisms in the Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
“The OSV Bold represents EPA’s technological leadership in environmental protection and cutting edge aquatic research,” Elin Miller, EPA regional administrator in Seattle, said in a press release.
The Bold just finished seafloor monitoring off Arcata, Calif.
During its tour of duty in the Northwest this summer, the ship’s crew will:
* Study discharges of Alaskan cruise ships in the coastal sea between Juneau and Skagway.
* Monitor ambient dioxin concentrations in sediments at background reference areas throughout Puget Sound in Washington in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Washington Department of Ecology and the Washington Department of Natural Resources.
* Monitor dissolved oxygen and nutrient concentrations throughout Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca in collaboration with the Washington Department of Ecology.
The ship also worked in the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, serving as a floating laboratory and research platform. The science teams did testing and analysis in the Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi Sound and the Gulf. The water, sediment and fish tissue samples were analyzed and contributed to the comprehensive database collected of pathogens and pollutants release following the storms.
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