Geographic Patterns?

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Geographic Patterns?
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Species Differences?
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Temporal Trends?
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Summary - Murres

• For most OCs Hg Gulf of Alaska gt Bering Sea
  (HCB shows a reverse pattern)
• OCs Hg Alaska murres murres from other parts
  of the northern hemisphere
• Differences in TBMU vs COMU vary by region
• Organotin murres gt gulls
• Too early to see temporal trends
• Difficult to compare to 1970s work of Ohlendorf,
  but contemporary murres generally have lower OCs,
  except for HCB

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Improve geographical trends information
Cape Lisburne
St. Lawrence I.
Middleton I.
2002 Thick-billed murres
East Amatuli I.
St. Lazaria I.
St. George I.
2003 Common murres Gulf of Alaska
Thick-billed murres Common murres
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Acknowledgments
Funding USGS/BRD, USFWS, NIST, BIA,
NPRB Partners and Collaborators Point Hope IRA
CouncilEarl Kingik, Wildlife and Parks Director
and Russel Lane, resident) Maniilaq
AssociationEnoch Schiedt and residents of
Deering Little Diomede Island residents
Kawerak Inc.Austin Ahmasuk, Subsistence
Director, and residents of Nome and Shaktoolik
St. Lawrence Island (Brandon Waghiyi and local
residents) Paimiut Traditional CouncilAlbert
Simon, Hooper Bay Native Village of
MekoryukMarvin Kiokun, Natural Resources
Director Togiak Traditional CouncilFrancisca
Kamkapak, Tribal Environmental Program Manager
and Peter Lockuk Sr. St. George Traditional
CouncilAnthony Merculieff, Executive Director,
and Andy Malavansky, Island Sentinel Sitka Tribe
and Jack Lorrrigan, Tribal Fisheries Biologist
Loran Buck, Kodiak local biologist Seldovia
TribeMichael Opheim, Environmental Coordinator
and Paul McCollum, Seldovia Tribe Environmental
Program Consultant Nick Tanape Sr., Traditional
Ecological Knowledge Specialist, Nanwalek Paul
McCollum, Nanwalek IRA Council Environmental
Program Consultant University of Alaska
USGS/BRD USFWS BIA ADFG Canadian Wildlife
Service. Special Thanks to Glenn Chen (BIA)
Vern Byrd (USFWS) Tony DeGange (USGS-BRD)
Michael Smolen, WWF Lyman Thorsteinson
(USGS-BRD) Minerals Management Service (MMS)