10 year trend of levels of organochlorine pollutants in Antarctic seabirds

Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2357 See the link below for public details on this project.\n\n --- Public Summary from Project --- \nContaminants like PCBs and DDE have hardly been used Antarctica. Hence, this is an excellent place to monitor global background levels of these organochlor...

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Other Authors: Australian Antarctic Division (isOwnedBy)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: data.gov.au
Subjects:
AMD
ANTARCTICA
Adelie penguin
CEOS
DDE
FIELD INVESTIGATION
Fulmarus glacialoides
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS
HCB
LABORATORY
ORGANOCHLORINES
PCB
Pygoscelis adeliae
SEABIRDS
dieldrin
fulmar
hexachlorobenzene
morphometrics
polychlorinated biphenyls
preenoil
Antarctic
Fulmar
Hop Island
Rauer Islands
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://researchdata.edu.au/10-year-trend-antarctic-seabirds/1929078
http://data.gov.au/dataset/bff57bb6-700c-4021-8265-782790c9d323
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Summary:Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2357 See the link below for public details on this project.\n\n --- Public Summary from Project --- \nContaminants 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.\n\nData set description\nFrom several birds from Hop Island, Rauer Islands near Davis, samples were collected from preenoil (oil that birds excrete to preen their feathers. This preenoil was then analysed for organochlorine pollutants like polychlorinated biphenyls, (PCBs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), DDE and dieldrin. The species under investigation were the Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) and the Southern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides). The samples were collected from adult breeding birds, and stored in -20 degrees C as soon as possible. The analysis was done with relatively standard but very optimised methods, using a gas-chromatograph and mass-selective detection. \n\nData sheets:\nThe data are available in excel-sheets, located at Alterra, The Netherlands (the affiliation of the PI Nico van den Brink.). Data are available on PCB153 (polychlorinated biphenyl congener numbered 153), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), DDE (a metabolite of the pesticide DDT), and dieldrin (an insecticide).\n\nThe metadata are in 4 sheets (in meta data 2357.xls):\n1. 'Concentrations fulmars'\n2. 'Morphometric data fulmars'\n3. 'Concentrations Adelies'\n4. 'Morphometric data Adelies'\n\nThe column headings are: \n\n1. 'Concentrations fulmars'\n\n- Fulmar: bird number, corresponds with sheet 'morphometric data fulmars'.\n- PCB153: concentration of PCB-congener 153 (ng/g lipids)\n- HCB: concentration of hexachlorobenzene (ng/g lipids)\n- DDE: concentration of DDE (ng/g lipids)\n- Dieldrin: concentration of dieldrin (ng/g lipids)\n- Sample size weight of collected amount of ...

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