Project information
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.
Related publications
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Implementing the tissue residue approach for a key Antarctic species - Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe 21st Annual Meeting, Milan, Italy, 15-19 May 2011, 2011
(Ref: 14678)
Category 3: Poster
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are well known to accumulate in polar food webs; yet there is little ecotoxicological data available for environmental risk assessment of POPs in these extreme ecosystems. The premise of the tissue residue approach (TRA)…
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An Antarctic Research Station as a Source of Brominated and
Perfluorinated Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Local
Environment Environmental Science and Technology, 2015
(Ref: 15441)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Behavioural sensitivity of a key Southern Ocean species (Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba) to p,p'-DDE exposure. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2012
(Ref: 14623)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Aqueous uptake and sublethal toxicity of p,p'-DDE in non-feeding larval stages of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Environmental Pollution, 2012
(Ref: 14624)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Persistent Organic Pollutants in Antarctica; System Input from Distant and Local Contaminant Sources. Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 20-24 May 2012, 2012
(Ref: 14785)
Category 3: Abstract