Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are chemicals that are added to many industrial and consumer products to decrease their flammability and reduce the risk of fire. Fire incidence has dropped over the past 25 years partly as a result of government regulations and fire prevention policies which mandate the use of flame retardants in many automotive [...]
In July 2006, NOAA’s Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program conducted the second year of our dolphin health assessment research project in St. Joseph Bay, Florida with support from partners including the Chicago Zoological Society’s Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, Mote Marine Laboratory, NOAA’s Ocean Service, Ocean Embassy, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Florida [...]
Little is known about the distributions, concentrations, or types of trace elements in cetacean skin. Cetacean skin has physiology that is unique from other marine mammals, allowing for distinct trace element accumulation patterns. Trace elements mainly accumulate in the multilayered epidermis and dermis. The high lipid content in blubber prevents the deposition of trace elements [...]
Starting in 1987, the SDRP pioneered a program of health assessment of free-ranging bottlenose dolphins in an effort to be proactive in understanding health threats to dolphins, providing an alternative to the previous approach of recovery and examination of beach-cast carcasses. This approach continues to evolve, and subsequent programs in Texas, along the mid-Atlantic coast, [...]
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