Monitor air quality in ship-affected border regions, especially for bioaerosols of threat micro-organisms produced with ballast water discharge splash-spray of waters from around the world--or deliberately tainted with biohazard substances as terrorist acts.

Sampling in and around the Great Lake ports served by international vessels using the St. Lawrence Seaway, and Baltimore Harbor, as well as the biofilms in ballast tanks of around-the-world ships homeported in Israel, has shown the universal presence of infective micro-organisms like Vibrio alginolyticus and Vibrio cholera that can cause diseases in populations exposed to fine sprays (bioaerosols) or border waters receiving these discharges.  Terrorist "seeding" of ballast water in a ship entering Lake Erie from the Welland Canal could produce ballast water discharge plumes carrying infective organisms over Buffalo and Western New York while otherwise proceeding un-noticed to further inland ports near Cleveland and Chicago.