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Development of a murre (Uria spp.) egg control material

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The Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Project (STAMP) is a collaborative Alaska-wide effort by the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (USFWS/AMNWR), the US Geological Survey’s Biological Resources Division (USGS/BRD), the Bureau of Indian Affairs Alaska Region Subsistence Branch (BIA/ARSB), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to monitor long-term (decadal) trends in environmental contaminants using seabird eggs. To support this effort, a matrix- (seabird egg) and concentration-specific control material was needed to ensure quality during analytical work. Although a herring gull egg quality assurance (HGQA) material is available from Environment Canada (EC), contaminant concentrations in this material tended to be higher than those observed in Alaskan murre (Uria spp.) eggs. Therefore, to prepare a more appropriate control material, a total of 12 common murre (U. aalge) and thick-billed murre (U. lomvia) eggs from four Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska nesting locations were cryohomogenized to create 190 aliquots each containing approximately 6 g. This new control material was analyzed by different methods at NIST and EC facilities for the determination of concentrations and value assignment of 63 polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners, 20 organochlorine pesticides, and 11 polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) congeners. The total PCB concentration is approximately 58 ng g−1 wet mass. Results obtained for analytes not listed on the certificates of analysis of the previously used control materials, HGQA and NIST’s Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1946 Lake Superior Fish Tissue, are also presented.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the egg collectors: Andrew Ramey (USGS), Kent Sundseth (USFWS), Bruce Tungwenuk (Sitnasuak Native Corporation) and Brandon Waghiyi (St. Lawrence Island).

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  1. Hollings Marine Laboratory, Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 331 Fort Johnson Rd., Charleston, SC, 29412, USA

    Stacy S. Vander Pol, Michael B. Ellisor, Rebecca S. Pugh & Paul R. Becker

  2. Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA

    Dianne L. Poster & Michele M. Schantz

  3. Statistical Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA

    Stefan D. Leigh

  4. National Wildlife Research Centre, Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0H3, Canada

    Bryan J. Wakeford

  5. Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 95 Sterling Highway, Suite 1, Homer, AK, 99603, USA

    David G. Roseneau

  6. Alaska Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 1011 E. Tudor Road, Anchorage, AK, 99503, USA

    Kristin S. Simac

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Vander Pol, S.S., Ellisor, M.B., Pugh, R.S. et al. Development of a murre (Uria spp.) egg control material. Anal Bioanal Chem 387, 2357–2363 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-006-0887-2

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