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Three weeks later investigators are still trying to figure out what the mystery material is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not for lack of effort. State scientists, federal agencies, and a lab in Britain are all trying to identify the substance. To get a behind-the-scenes look at the forensic science involved, I drove to the state’s Fish and Wildlife lab, to find out why it’s taking so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lab’s headquarters, a half-hour east of Sacramento, are completely unassuming. One paved road winds past discreetly marked stucco buildings: Petroleum Chemistry Laboratory, Water Pollution Control Laboratory, Aquatic Bioassessment Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each lab tests for different types of chemicals and once you’re inside, it’s kind of a geek’s paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘You’re basically trying to reconstruct a vase from a pile of powder.’\u003ccite>–Gail Cho,\u003cbr>\nChemist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Inside, various instruments click away, running simultaneous tests on the goo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They look a little bit like a microwave oven but with a lot more buttons,” says chemist Gail Cho, who is showing me around, tossing out a dizzying stream of jargon. “And over here we’re standing in front of the gas mass-spec triple quad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s short for \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography%E2%80%93mass_spectrometry\">gas chromatography mass spectrometry\u003c/a>. It’s a method for analyzing different substances within a test sample. The sample must be a gas and the device is able to identify trace organic compounds within the sample.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho says, forget what you’ve seen on TV crime dramas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A typical ‘CSI’ show takes about 40 minutes minus the commercials,” Cho said. “A typical run for analyzing one compound like polychloride biphenyl takes almost an hour for one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 209 \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl\">polychloride biphenyls\u003c/a>, so that’s nearly nine days just to clear all the varieties of one chemical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving on to another chemical could mean another nine days. After two weeks, working around the clock, you’d only have eliminated eliminate two chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27008\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 357px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/02/bird-release_1-1024x683.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27008\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/02/bird-release_1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"After cleaning goo-covered birds with baking soda, vinegar and dish soap. the International Bird Rescue Center has released 101 back into the wild. (Anya Schultz/KQED)\" width=\"357\" height=\"238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After cleaning gunked birds with baking soda, vinegar and dish soap, responders have released more than 100 back into the wild.\u003cbr>(Anya Schultz/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s the problem with an unidentified compound. 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We’ve got a couple hundred reported from San Leandro Marina to Hayward Shoreline that may be ‘oiled’.” This was a call that came into the \u003ca title=\"Crab Cove Visitor Center, EBRPD\" href=\"http://www.ebparks.org/parks/vc/crab_cove\">Crab Cove Visitor Center\u003c/a>, where I work as a naturalist for the East Bay Parks, last Friday morning, January 23\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup>, at about 9:30am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I took a co-worker out with me and we began our walk from the visitor center down the shoreline. We saw a couple of eared grebes in the cove that were unusually close to shore and bathing vigorously. Usually eared grebes stay further offshore unless they were catching fish close by. Rounding the concrete wall, my heart sank. Dotting the shoreline were small groups of beached \u003ca title=\"Surf Scoter, All About Birds website\" href=\"http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Surf_Scoter/lifehistory\">surf scoters\u003c/a>. Normally, surf scoters only come to shore when they’re sick or injured –- or to breed in the tundra of northern Canada and Alaska. They’re sea birds in the diving duck family with feet set far back on their bodies, perfect for maneuvering underwater but very unbalanced for walking on land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26669\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 243px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/1-Jan-18-Horned-Grebe-243x162.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26669\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/1-Jan-18-Horned-Grebe-243x162.jpg\" alt=\"A horned grebe covered in the sticky goo gets ready for cleaning at International Bird Rescue. 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It was important to get them some help as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I contacted Mark Taylor, Park Supervisor at Hayward Regional Shoreline. His park was “ground zero” for the impact of the spill and he was already coordinating with California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the \u003ca title=\"OSPR website\" href=\"https://calspillwatch.dfg.ca.gov/Spill-Archive/East-Bay-Bird-Incident\">Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR)\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"International Bird Rescue website\" href=\"http://bird-rescue.org/\">International Bird Rescue (IBR)\u003c/a> to capture sick birds, collect dead ones and get the chemical tested. It was terrible scene with nearly 300 sick or dead birds affected by the goo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We got our Crown Beach ranger-naturalist team together and patrolled the shoreline with a successful first catch of a surf scoter near Crab Cove. Into the box he went. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26463\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Goo-bird-e1421799850872-1024x576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26463 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Goo-bird-e1421799850872-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">International Bird Rescue’s Mark Russell points to the unidentified substance which induced hypothermia in this dead bird in San Leandro’s Marina. (Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sarastrummer\">Sara Hossaini\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:45 a.m., Jan. 28:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today the International Bird Rescue Center released 24 birds that were found covered in a mysterious goo in San Francisco Bay. After spending ten days in captivity receiving medical treatment, the birds were well enough to return to the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m., Jan. 27:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/\">California Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/a> say they’re working around the clock to categorize the elusive substance that killed and injured hundreds of the seabirds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far they have ruled out petroleum and polyisobutylene, or high-viscosity PIB, a synthetic rubber and marine fuel additive that was \u003ca href=\"http://www.theinformationdaily.com/2013/10/23/chemical-pib-responsible-for-mass-seabird-deaths-to-be-banned\">responsible for bird kills\u003c/a> along the coast of England in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They now believe the gunk is a chemical mixture but are still trying to figure out whether it’s natural or man-made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental scientist Daniel Orr said, unfortunately, there isn’t a single instrument to test the material. “When you have a fully unknown compound, there’s no [one] tool I can put that into,” said Orr. “I certainly wish there was in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, his team relies on infrared technology, mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance, sometimes testing multiple samples simultaneously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To speed up the investigation, his team is now sending samples to laboratories at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/\">Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/\">Department of Toxic Substances Control\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orr says the process isn’t as simple as TV crime dramas suggest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the biggest differences in the reality between ‘CSI’ and my day-to-day work is the preparation of the sample,” said Orr. Removing materials like feathers and sand prior to processing can take hours, Orr says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 scientists are now working on the case, with no word on how long it might take to have results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 a.m. Jan. 21:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of birds that have died from a mysterious goo has doubled since yesterday. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says 200 birds are dead and another 315 are being treated by International Bird Rescue. The organizations still haven’t identified the sticky substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26470\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 310px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Goo-bird__2-682x1024.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26470 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Goo-bird__2-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Labs are investigating the cause of the mysterious gunk which has killed at least 100 birds since Friday, including this bufflehead in San Leandro Marina. (Sara Hossaini)\" width=\"310\" height=\"465\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Labs are investigating the cause of the mysterious gunk which has killed at least 100 birds since Friday, including this bufflehead in San Leandro Marina. (Sara Hossaini)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife officials are still seeking the source of a strange, sticky substance fouling birds around San Francisco Bay. It’s already killed at least 200 birds and injured hundreds more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these dead birds are my failures,” lamented Mark Russell of \u003ca href=\"http://bird-rescue.org/\">International Bird Rescue\u003c/a>, as he heaved a bag full of dead birds into his van at the San Leandro Marina on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a team of volunteers, boxes of living birds await cleanup — but of \u003cem>what\u003c/em>, they’re not sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Non-petroleum substance has wildlife experts baffled\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not oil. That’s one reason why volunteer groups like Russell’s have been doing most of the work since the gooey substance was first reported at multiple sites on Friday, including Alameda County, the Crab Cove Visitor Center in Alameda, Hayward Regional Shoreline and the San Leandro Marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/\">California Department of Fish and Wildlife \u003c/a>spokesman Andrew Hughan says extra resources that might have been triggered by a petroleum incident aren’t available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news, according to Hughan, is that the substance doesn’t appear to be toxic. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far they have ruled out petroleum and polyisobutylene, or high-viscosity PIB, a synthetic rubber and marine fuel additive that was \u003ca href=\"http://www.theinformationdaily.com/2013/10/23/chemical-pib-responsible-for-mass-seabird-deaths-to-be-banned\">responsible for bird kills\u003c/a> along the coast of England in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They now believe the gunk is a chemical mixture but are still trying to figure out whether it’s natural or man-made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental scientist Daniel Orr said, unfortunately, there isn’t a single instrument to test the material. “When you have a fully unknown compound, there’s no [one] tool I can put that into,” said Orr. “I certainly wish there was in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, his team relies on infrared technology, mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance, sometimes testing multiple samples simultaneously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To speed up the investigation, his team is now sending samples to laboratories at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/\">Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/\">Department of Toxic Substances Control\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orr says the process isn’t as simple as TV crime dramas suggest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the biggest differences in the reality between ‘CSI’ and my day-to-day work is the preparation of the sample,” said Orr. Removing materials like feathers and sand prior to processing can take hours, Orr says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 scientists are now working on the case, with no word on how long it might take to have results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 a.m. Jan. 21:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of birds that have died from a mysterious goo has doubled since yesterday. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says 200 birds are dead and another 315 are being treated by International Bird Rescue. The organizations still haven’t identified the sticky substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26470\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 310px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Goo-bird__2-682x1024.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26470 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Goo-bird__2-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Labs are investigating the cause of the mysterious gunk which has killed at least 100 birds since Friday, including this bufflehead in San Leandro Marina. (Sara Hossaini)\" width=\"310\" height=\"465\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Labs are investigating the cause of the mysterious gunk which has killed at least 100 birds since Friday, including this bufflehead in San Leandro Marina. (Sara Hossaini)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife officials are still seeking the source of a strange, sticky substance fouling birds around San Francisco Bay. It’s already killed at least 200 birds and injured hundreds more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these dead birds are my failures,” lamented Mark Russell of \u003ca href=\"http://bird-rescue.org/\">International Bird Rescue\u003c/a>, as he heaved a bag full of dead birds into his van at the San Leandro Marina on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a team of volunteers, boxes of living birds await cleanup — but of \u003cem>what\u003c/em>, they’re not sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Non-petroleum substance has wildlife experts baffled\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not oil. That’s one reason why volunteer groups like Russell’s have been doing most of the work since the gooey substance was first reported at multiple sites on Friday, including Alameda County, the Crab Cove Visitor Center in Alameda, Hayward Regional Shoreline and the San Leandro Marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/\">California Department of Fish and Wildlife \u003c/a>spokesman Andrew Hughan says extra resources that might have been triggered by a petroleum incident aren’t available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news, according to Hughan, is that the substance doesn’t appear to be toxic. No fish have died and residents continued to cast their poles along the shoreline on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a mystery, says Hughan, “you know, I’ve heard it described as rubber cement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chemical analysis may lead to source\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughan says two labs are currently trying to pin down the nature of the substance,which gunks up feathers and leads to hypothermia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it turns out that this is man-made, we’re going to try to find them, and if it comes to it, we’re going to file criminal charges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughman hopes to announce the findings as early as this week on California Fish and Wildlife’s Twitter feed: @CaliforniaDFW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the stuff is finding its way primarily onto common shoreline birds, such as buffleheads, surf scoters, and horned grebes. 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(Sarah van Schagen/The Marine Mammal Center)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year a record number of sea lions washed up on Central and Northern California beaches, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/\">The Marine Mammal Center\u003c/a>, the organization that treats wounded wild marine animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually the center near Sausalito treats fewer than 20 sea lion pups a year, but in 2014 that spiked to 245. Older sea lions also stranded themselves in record numbers last year, 449 up from 176 in 2013. A neurotoxin found in algal blooms affected 34 percent of the adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sea lions were sighted all the way from San Luis Obispo to Mendocino. When rescuers responded to calls, said Shawn Johnson, Director of Veterinary Science, the emaciated pups looked extremely undernourished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very sad,” Johnson said. “Imagine starving to death and not eating for many weeks, where your skin is just hanging off you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Do Pups Get Stranded?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strandings happen when sea lion moms abandon their pups before they are ready to feed on their own. Scientists are unsure precisely what is causing these events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26410\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 335px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Blarney-McCresty-rehab-1024x682.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26410 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Blarney-McCresty-rehab-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Blarney McCresty, an adult male California sea lion, was treated for domoic acid toxicity during his rehabilitation at The Marine Mammal Center.\" width=\"335\" height=\"223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blarney McCresty, an adult male California sea lion, was treated for domoic acid toxicity during his rehabilitation at The Marine Mammal Center. (The Marine Mammal Center)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One possibility is rising ocean temperatures. Fish live in specific temperature ranges and warmer water could change their habitat, which means sea lion moms swim father afield to find the same amount of nutrients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists do know that when the adults are unable to provide for the pups they abandon them. If the infants are younger than 10 months, they don’t know how to fend for themselves and wind up on beaches throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year the center is able to save about 50 percent of the pups that are rescued, by nourishing them back to health with a slurry of ground-up fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center is working with biologists from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/nmml/\">National Marine Mammal Laboratory\u003c/a> to study the health of sea lion populations on the Channel Islands, where the animals breed. They’re hoping to help predict future strandings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re bracing for another very big year in 2015,” Johnson said. “The biologists observing sea lions at the Channel Islands say the pups are underweight so we’ll likely have another busy spring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sea Lions Have Brain Damage, Experience Seizures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26414\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 324px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Atlas-Orbit-Caelum_release__Conner-Jay-242x162.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26414\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Atlas-Orbit-Caelum_release__Conner-Jay-242x162.jpg\" alt=\"California sea lions Atlas, Orbit and Caelum return to the ocean at Chimney Rock in Point Reyes after receiving care at The Marine Mammal Center. (Conner Jay/ The Marine Mammal Center)\" width=\"324\" height=\"217\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California sea lions Atlas, Orbit and Caelum return to the ocean at Chimney Rock in Point Reyes after receiving care at The Marine Mammal Center. (Conner Jay/ The Marine Mammal Center)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 1998, scientists have discovered sea lions with a neurotoxin that causes memory loss and seizures. Domoic acid is created by certain types of algae and passed up the food chain from fish to the animals that eat them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once ingested, the toxin enters the bloodstream, traveling to the brain where it starts causing brain damage. 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