This
module is based on work by members of the Bowdoin College Hydrocarbon Research
Center and the Marine Research Laboratory in 1987-1989. In particular,
David S. Page, Professor of Chemistry at Bowdoin, and Tamara Dassanayake,
Bowdoin Class of 1990, analyzed the relationship between mussel shell thickness
and the concentration of TBT found in the cell tissues of the organisms.
This work was subsequently published by D. S. Page, T. M. Dassanayake, and E. S. Gilfillan, The
Relationship Between Tissue Concentrations of Tributyltin and Shell
Morphology in Field Populations of Mytilus edulis, Bulletin of
Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 56 (1996), 500-504.
The
first version of this module and the follow-up Writing about Marine Pollution
module were written in Mathematica by William H. Barker, Professor of Mathematics
at Bowdoin, to supplement the Project CALC lab modules developed at Duke
University by David A. Smith and Lawrence C. Moore.
Barker's
Mathematica version was converted to Maple by Richard Schori, Professor
of Mathematics at Oregon State University. Smith worked from Schori's Maple
version to create this HTML version.
