Argumentative Essay Sources by Katelyn Spear

Saving Washington's salmon from toxic tire dust

katlynmoon21 — 2024-11-22 12:33:26 UTC

This source was published on January 25, 2023 by Mugdha Flores as a part of a blog posted by the Department of Ecology State of Washington. This source gives more in depth information about how intense the effect of losing Coho Salmon is to the environment as well as discussing different strategies that the state of Washington has been trying in order to limit the amount of 6PPD-quinone that is polluting their streams. With this information of what is succeeding and not succeeding, these good strategies could potentially be enforced in other states that are having the same issues.

Abiotic oxidative transformation of 6-PPD and 6-PPD quinone from tires and occurrence of their products in snow from urban roads and in municipal wastewater

katlynmoon21 — 2024-11-22 12:52:05 UTC

In association with the International Water Association this journal article was published on January 24, 2022 and was written by Bettina Seiwert, Maolida Nihemaiti, Mareva Troussier, Steffen Weyrauch, and Thorsten Reemtsma. This source gives much more information on not only 6PPD-quinone but also on the different and specific transformation products that have occurred from road runoff that are specifically affecting the water systems.

An urban storm water runoff mortality syndrome in juvenile Coho salmon

katlynmoon21 — 2024-11-22 13:01:06 UTC

This article was published on June 19, 2019 and was written by Michelle I. Chowa, Jessica I. Lundinb, Chelsea J. Mitchellc, Jay W. Davisd, Graham Younga, Nathaniel L. Scholze, and Jenifer K. McIntyre. This article is focused on explaining how road runoff has significantly increased mortality for Coho Salmon. It also discusses how all age groups are effected and that if the fish have already been exposed to the lethal contaminants they do not recover even when they are put into clean healthy environments afterwards.

The lethal and sublethal impacts of two tire rubber-derived chemicals on brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) fry and fingerlings

katlynmoon21 — 2024-11-22 13:17:35 UTC

This international journal article was published on May 9, 2024 and was written by Danielle Philibert, Ryan S. Stanton, Christine Tang, Naomi L. Stock, Tillmann Benfey, Michael Pirrung, and Benjamin de Jourdan. While this article is discussing the effect of these road runoff chemicals on a different type of salmon, these salmon are very similar in a physiological way to Coho salmon. Their findings discuss how there are more dangerous chemicals from road runoff being pushed into water ways besides the 6PPD-quinone and because of this it is important that toxicology tests are done on water ways more often, similar to the one they do in this study in order to see what chemicals are polluting water sheds and to see how the different chemicals are effecting different life stages of the salmon.

6PPD-Quinone and Beyond: Tire Rubber Additives and Transformation Products as Emerging Contaminants

katlynmoon21 — 2024-11-22 13:29:33 UTC

In this YouTube video, published on April 19, 2023, a Doctor by the name of Zhenyu Tian talks about 6PPD-quinone and how it effects urban storm water. In this video you receive more of an explanation behind what is going on and more importantly what big organizations like NOAA Fisheries is doing to help reduce the issues at hand. I also find it more enlightening to hear from this Doctor because he has studied environmental chemistry for years so he already has a deeper understanding of what is really happening.

Roadway Runoff Known to Kill Coho Salmon also Affects Steelhead, Chinook Salmon

katlynmoon21 — 2024-11-22 13:36:40 UTC

This article was published on August 24, 2022 and was written by NOAA Fisheries. This article not only continues to discuss the detriments of road runoff in relation to Coho Salmon, but it also includes how it is negatively effecting two other species of salmon that also happen to be on the endangered species list. It also includes how if we do nothing to correct these issues that in the next 30-40 years those species of salmon will be wiped out in the areas of this pollution which would have a huge effect on the ecosystems that they inhabit.

Beyond PFAS: What's up with emerging contaminant N-(l,3-Dimethylbutyl)-N'-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD)?

katlynmoon21 — 2024-11-22 13:42:36 UTC

This journal was published in April of 2024 and was written by Sean Dixon and Kelsey Furman. This journal entry is discussing how a team of researchers have been working on creating more eco friendly infrastructure as well as trying to get a clean water act passed to help protect our water ways from more potential pollution. They have been working for the past 2 years to increase funding to certain companies that have been constructing research projects to figure out alternatives to the harmful 6PPD-quinone chemicals that are being used.

The Breach ~ Feature Documentary

katlynmoon21 — 2024-11-22 13:49:22 UTC

This documentary was posted to YouTube on July 4, 2022 by an account called Eva's Wild. In this documentary it is talking about how a fishing guide by the name of Mark Titus went on a mission to see where all the salmon had gone too because he had noticed a significant lack of them in their normal habitat. On this adventure he explains how this significant of a loss of salmon is negatively impacting fishermen, tribal leaders, tribal ceremonies, and much more.

Road Runoff a No-No for Coho

katlynmoon21 — 2024-11-22 13:59:26 UTC

This short podcast recording was published on October 26, 2015 and recorded by Julia Rosen. Although this Podcast is from almost 10 years ago, I think it is important because it is the first time the scientists could prove that it was road runoff that was in fact increasing the mortality of Coho salmon to such a great extent. It also uses a lot of important statistics that I think would be good to look at in reference from then to now to see how we are either improving or declining in our endeavors to save the Coho salmon.