Origin of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Antarctic Atmosphere, Snow and Marine Food Web

• Main Author: Lohmann, Rainer
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2015
• Subjects: Animal Tracking; Seals; Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems; Pollution; Biology; Chemistry:Fluid; Sample/Collection Description; Antarctica; Southern Ocean; Atmosphere; Biosphere; Human Dimensions; Oceans; Antarctic Peninsula; McMurdo Sound; Palmer Station; Ross Sea; Weddell Sea; US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC); Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell; Palmer-Station; Antarc*; Climate change
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/600138

Abstract: Many persistent organic pollutants (POPs), though banned in the U.S. since the 1970s, remain in the environment and continue to reach hitherto pristine regions such as the Arctic and Antarctic. The overall goals of this RAPID project are to better understand the remobilization of POPs from...