Assessment Studies
The Hudson River Natural Resource Damages unit has a number of studies which have been completed or which are under consideration:
Avian Studies
Fact Sheets:
Spring 2002 Fact Sheet (61 kb pdf) on the Status of the Hudson River Natural Resource Damage Assessment
Preliminary Investigations of Bird Injuries
Screening Level Studies:
Data Report For The Collection Of Eggs From Spotted Sandpipers, American Woodcock, Belted Kingfisher, American Robin, Red-Winged Blackbird, And Eastern Phoebe Associated With The Hudson River From Hudson Falls To Schodack Island, New York
April-June 2002
Data Report (531 kb pdf)
AppendixA.pdf : The Work Plan (560 kb pdf)
AppendixB.pdf : Data Quality Assessment Report (362 kb pdf)
AppendixC.pdf : Data Sheets (1.2 Mb pdf)
Work Summary And Data Report (268 kb pdf) for the Collection Of Eggs From American Peregrine Falcon, Hudson River, New York
May, June 2002
Data Report (833 kb pdf) For The Collection Of Eggs From Eastern Screech Owl Associated With The Hudson River From Hudson Falls To Schodack Island, New York April-May 2003
Injury Investigations with USGS:
Study Plan For Year 2004 (3.2 Mb pdf) Avian Investigations For The Hudson River Hudson River Natural Resource June 15, 2004
Responsiveness Summary For The Study Plan For Year 2004 (195 kb pdf ) Avian Investigations Hudson River Hudson River Natural Resource Damage Assessment
2005 Modification To Study Plan (297 kb pdf)For Avian Investigations For The Hudson River Usgs Study Plan Amendment For 2005 Hudson River Natural Resource Damage Assessment
2006 Modification To Study Plan (104 kb pdf) For Avian Investigations For The Hudson River Usgs Study Plan Amendment.
Egg Injection Studies:
Design And Preparation Of A Custom 58-Congener Pcb Mixture (2.36 Mb pdf) Dosing Solution For Avian Egg Injection Studies
2006 Study Plan For Avian Egg Injection Study (2.17 Mb pdf)
2006 Responsiveness Summary For The Avian Egg Injection Study (183 kb) Plan Hudson River Natural Resource Damage Assessment Hudson River Natural Resource Trustees
Revised 2006 Study Plan (2.71 kb pdf)For Avian Egg Injection Study Hudson River Natural Resource Damage Assessment
2007 Study Plan for Avian Injury Study Amendment for Year 2 (399 kb pdf)
Waterfowl Study:
Draft Study Plan Waterfowl Injury Assessment Plan PCBs in Hudson River Resident Waterfowl (41 kb pdf)
2007 Mallard Fact Sheet (84 kb pdf)
Amphibian and Reptile Studies
Screening Level Studies:
Tadpoles: Data report (1.4 Mb, pdf) 2004. The accumulation of sedimentary PCBs in bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) tadpoles from the Upper Hudson River
Snapping Turtle egg report:
Data Report For The Collection Of Eggs From The Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra Serpentina Serpentina)From The Hudson River, New York ( 740 kb, pdf)
June 2002
Quality Assurance Project Plan (6.6 Mb,pdf)Organochlorine And Metal Contaminant Levels In Hudson River, New York Reptiles And Amphibians
August 11, 1998
February 28,2005
Fish Studies
Fact Sheets:
Fall 2001 Fact Sheet (351 kb, pdf)on the status of the Hudson River Natural Resource Damage Assessment Assessing Fish Health
October 2001
Screening Level Studies:
SAP, Sampling And Analysis Plan (1.6 Mb,pdf) Hudson River Fish Health Assessment Phase I: Field Sampling, Necropsy,Histopathology, Disease,Fish Age (Field Version)
Floodplain Studies
Screening Level Studies:
2001 SETAC presentation: ( 486 kb,pdf)PCBs in Floodplain Soils and Shrews
Floodplain Data Summary (4.9 Mb,pdf) 2001-2004
Mammal Studies
Mink and Otter
Fact Sheets:
Fact Sheet 2006 (591 kb,pdf)
Screening Level Studies:
Mink Progress Report 1998-2000 (544 kb,pdf)
Mink Study Plan 2006 (3 Mb,pdf)
Responsiveness Summary For The 2006 Study Plan For Mink Injury Investigations (189 kb,pdf)
Bats
Fact Sheets:
Fact Sheet 2007 (43 kb,pdf)
Screening Level Studies:
2002 Data Report and Work Summary (462 kb,pdf)
Navigation Service Loss Studies
Navigational Services Loss Report 2006 (370 kb, pdf)
Additional NRD studies will be added to this page in the future. In the meantime the documents from these efforts may also be obtained from the links to the right of the main Hudson River Natural Resource damages page.
