An evaluation of the U.S. Navy's Extremely Low Frequency Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program /

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Corporate author / creator:National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Evaluate the U.S. Navy's Extremely Low Frequency Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program, author.
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1997.
Description:1 online resource (1 PDF file (xiv, 162 pages)) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11106027
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ISBN:0585037655
9780585037653
9780309055901
0309055903
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Title from PDF title page.
Includes bibliographical references.
The project was supported by contract DAMD 17-89-C-9086 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Defense. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the organizations or agencies that provided support for this project.
Version viewed February 12, 2015.
Summary:The U.S. Navy established an ecological monitoring program to determine whether electric and magnetic fields from extremely low frequency (ELF) communications systems influenced plant and animal populations near the transmitting facilities. Although some of the researchers believe that a few biological changes might have occurred, they concluded that the results do not indicate significant adverse ecological effects. This book evaluates the 11 ecological studies of the Navy's monitoring program and examines the adequacy of experimental design, the data collection and analysis, and the soundness of the conclusions. It also addresses whether the monitoring program was capable of detecting subtle effects due to ELF exposure and examines the biological changes observed by some program researchers, such as enhanced tree growth.
Other form:Print version: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Evaluate the U.S. Navy's Extremely Low Frequency Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program. Evaluation of the U.S. Navy's extremely low frequency communications system ecological monitoring program. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1997 0309055903