Role of Snow Deposition of Perfluoroalkylated Substances at Coastal Livingston Island (Maritime Antarctica)

• Published in: Environmental Science & Technology
• Main Authors: Casal, P., Zhang, Y., Martin, J. W., Pizarro, M., Jiménez, Begoña, Dachs, Jordi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Chemical Society 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Livingston Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/235228; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b02521

Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous in the environment, including remote polar regions. To evaluate the role of snow deposition as an input of PFAS to Maritime Antarctica, fresh snow deposition, surface snow, streams from melted snow, coastal seawater, and plankton samples were collected...