Project information
VAN DEN BRINK, Dr Nico
Wageningen University
Davis, Rauer Islands
Project aim
Contaminants like PCBs and DDE have hardly been used Antarctica. Hence, this is an excellent place to monitor global background levels of these organochlorines. In this project concentrations in penguins and petrels will be compared to 10 years ago, which will show time trends of global background contamination levels.
Related publications
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Penguin colonies as secondary sources of contamination with persistent organic pollutants Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2007
(Ref: 13074)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
Although long-range atmospheric transport has been described as the predominant mechanism … for exposing polar regions to persistent organic pollutants (POPs), recent studies have suggested … that bird activity can also contribute substantially to contaminant levels in some environments. However…