Chemical and Microbiological Studies of the Middle Salt Lagoon, Barrow, Alaska.

• Main Authors: Boyd,William L., Boyd,Josephine W.
• Other Authors: COLORADO STATE UNIV FORT COLLINS DEPT OF MICROBIOLOGY
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1974
• Subjects: Microbiology; Hydrology; Limnology and Potamology; *WATERWAYS; *MICROBIOLOGY; *ECOLOGY; *WATER CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE; BACTERIA; ALASKA; ARCTIC REGIONS; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; *Lagoons(Ponds); Indicator species; *Bioindicators; Barrow(Alaska); Arctic; Chukchi Sea; Salt Lagoon; Barrow; Chukchi; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA001229; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA001229

The Mddle Salt Lagoon, adjacent to the Chukchi Sea, at Barrow, Alaska, is the depository for sewage from the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory. It is covered with ice for most of the year (9-10 months), and during 1972 the salinity reached a maximum of 106.50 degrees/00; concentration of other solute...