The crew would consist of scientists who would study weather, water, and atmospheric pollution, and ozone depletion in remote and little-documented regions of the world.
Scientists studying pollution often examine oysters and other bivalve mollusks because they are filter-feeders whose organs concentrate oil and its byproducts.
Federal and New Jersey officials said yesterday that they had embarked on a $19 million partnership to study pollution in a heavily industrialized section of the lower Passaic River.
The Department of the Environment has appointed our Modelling and Assessments Department to run a major programme to study pollution in UK cities.
One of the problems of studying nitrate pollution is that the water that replenishes aquifers - particularly the Chalk - typically takes many years to travel from the soil to the water table.
The International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) was first authorized by the two governments to study pollution of the New River from Mexico.
The Agriculture Department has also set up a task force to study ground-water pollution related to chemicals.
The agreement was disclosed today by the National Toxic Campaign Fund, a national environmental group based in Boston studying pollution on the nation's military bases.
From October 4 to November 9, 2012, the Sea Education Association (SEA) conducted a research expedition to study plastic pollution in the North Pacific gyre.
He cited an environmental study by the Ozone Transport Assessment Group, a coalition of 37 states studying pollution.