1. Southeast Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program Freshwater Contaminants Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Sitka National Historical Park M. Humling/USFS

2. Justification Southeast Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program Airborne contaminants Marine contaminants Freshwater contaminants

3. Justification Southeast Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program M. Humling/USFS ?

4. Objectives Southeast Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program Initial assessment: baselines, geographic and landscape variability? Create long-term status and trends monitoring program for Hg and POPs T. McCabe/USDA NRCS P. Kaiser/USFWS NPS Photo Source: Wikipedia.com

5. Logistics and Budget 2007 initial assessment (Nagorski et al.) = $85K FY12 funding for protocol development (O’Hara et al.) = $55K (incl. initial literature review) Southeast Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program Andres Lopez, UAF Grad student (protocol development) Todd O’Hara Lab, UAF Lisa Hoferkamp, UAS

6. What we’re learning Southeast Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program Generally, the watersheds of SEAN parks are quite clean Mercury and POPs found in all watersheds, but no human or wildlife health exceedances Streamwater and sediments extremely low levels Age-1 coho elevated mercury levels (up to 80 ng/g) But…

7. What we’re learning Southeast Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program Mayflies

8. What we’re learning Southeast Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program Age-0 coho salmon watershed age =methylmercury

9. What we’re considering Southeast Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program (from Van Metre and Mahler 2005) Lakebed sediments (from McIntyre 2004) Fish tissue

10. Southeast Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program Program Delivery + SEAN staff

11. christopher_sergeant@nps.gov 364.1591 M. Humling/USFS