Project information

BENGTSON NASH, A/Prof. Susan
Griffith University
Australia (or home country), Casey

Project aim

Understanding the sources, transport and fate of toxic compounds such as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and emerging contaminants of concern is central to the protection of the Antarctic environment from human activities. We propose land-based monitoring of the chemical composition of air masses arriving in the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) thus facilitating, for the first time, information regarding long-range atmospheric transport of POPs to the AAT. We will examine eastern Antarctic research stations as potential local sources of polybrominated diphenylether (PBDE) contamination. Finally, the uptake kinetics of PBDEs in krill will be experimentally investigated as markers of krill population movement.

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