Deposition and recent trends of atmospherically transported trace organic compounds in Canadian arctic snow ...

Snow pack samples representing snow accumulation for the winters of 1985/86 and 1986/87 were collected at 12 and 15 sites respectively, throughout the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the spring of 1986 and 1987 (from 62°N to 85°N and from 73°W to 130°W). Samples from the annual snow layers wer...

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Main Author: Gregor, Dennis James
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Université de Genève 1989
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spelling ftdatacite:10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:174805 2024-03-31T07:51:03+00:00 Deposition and recent trends of atmospherically transported trace organic compounds in Canadian arctic snow ... Gregor, Dennis James 1989 https://dx.doi.org/10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:174805 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:174805 en eng Université de Genève infoeu-repo/classification/ddc/550 Arctic Pesticides PCBs Atmospheric deposition Snow Glacier info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis thesis Dissertation Thesis 1989 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:174805 2024-03-04T13:05:54Z Snow pack samples representing snow accumulation for the winters of 1985/86 and 1986/87 were collected at 12 and 15 sites respectively, throughout the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the spring of 1986 and 1987 (from 62°N to 85°N and from 73°W to 130°W). Samples from the annual snow layers were also taken on the Agassiz Ice Cap on north central Ellesmere Island for 17 years. All samples were collected as large volume snow samples and were sealed into Teflon bags. The snow was melted at room temperature and extracted in field laboratories for analyses of organochlorine pesticides (OCs), Ttl. PCB, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and chlorobenzenes (CBZs). Hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) usually made up more than 75 % of the total OCs measured. The highest concentration of HCHs was 53.2 ng L -1 . These were followed in abundance by a-endosulfan, dieldrin, chlordane and heptachlor epoxide at concentrations less than 1.0 ng L -1 . PCB concentrations ranged from 0.02 to 1.76 ng L -1 with most of the ... : Les territoires du Nord ouest (TNO) représentent 34 % ou 3.38 millions de km 2 des terres canadiennes. D'une manière générale, cette vaste zone a suscité peu d' intérêt en ce qui concerne les dégâts causés par l'homme à l'environnement, et cela pour plusieurs raisons - l'absence de développement intensif laissant croire que l'environnement reste intact - l'éloignement, qui accroît les coûts et complique la logistique des activités d'évaluation dans le domaine de l'environnement - un manque d'intérêt du pouvoir canadien qui, tout au long de l'histoire du pays, s'est focalisé sur le Sud. Malheureusement, il apparaît de plus en plus clairement que les résidus toxiques dans les organismes marins et d'eau douce, atteignent des concentrations élevées. A nos jours, des données approfondies ont été fournies, concernant les métaux et les composés organochlorés dans les poissons et les mammifères marins de l'Arctique. Cependant, le résultat final de ces contaminants dans cet environnement est perçu au niveau de la ... Thesis Arctic Ellesmere Island glacier* Ice cap Northwest Territories Territoires du Nord-Ouest DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Agassiz Ice Cap ENVELOPE(-75.996,-75.996,80.252,80.252) Arctic Canada Ellesmere Island Northwest Territories
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Pesticides
PCBs
Atmospheric deposition
Snow
Glacier
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Deposition and recent trends of atmospherically transported trace organic compounds in Canadian arctic snow ...
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description Snow pack samples representing snow accumulation for the winters of 1985/86 and 1986/87 were collected at 12 and 15 sites respectively, throughout the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the spring of 1986 and 1987 (from 62°N to 85°N and from 73°W to 130°W). Samples from the annual snow layers were also taken on the Agassiz Ice Cap on north central Ellesmere Island for 17 years. All samples were collected as large volume snow samples and were sealed into Teflon bags. The snow was melted at room temperature and extracted in field laboratories for analyses of organochlorine pesticides (OCs), Ttl. PCB, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and chlorobenzenes (CBZs). Hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) usually made up more than 75 % of the total OCs measured. The highest concentration of HCHs was 53.2 ng L -1 . These were followed in abundance by a-endosulfan, dieldrin, chlordane and heptachlor epoxide at concentrations less than 1.0 ng L -1 . PCB concentrations ranged from 0.02 to 1.76 ng L -1 with most of the ... : Les territoires du Nord ouest (TNO) représentent 34 % ou 3.38 millions de km 2 des terres canadiennes. D'une manière générale, cette vaste zone a suscité peu d' intérêt en ce qui concerne les dégâts causés par l'homme à l'environnement, et cela pour plusieurs raisons - l'absence de développement intensif laissant croire que l'environnement reste intact - l'éloignement, qui accroît les coûts et complique la logistique des activités d'évaluation dans le domaine de l'environnement - un manque d'intérêt du pouvoir canadien qui, tout au long de l'histoire du pays, s'est focalisé sur le Sud. Malheureusement, il apparaît de plus en plus clairement que les résidus toxiques dans les organismes marins et d'eau douce, atteignent des concentrations élevées. A nos jours, des données approfondies ont été fournies, concernant les métaux et les composés organochlorés dans les poissons et les mammifères marins de l'Arctique. Cependant, le résultat final de ces contaminants dans cet environnement est perçu au niveau de la ...
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title Deposition and recent trends of atmospherically transported trace organic compounds in Canadian arctic snow ...
title_short Deposition and recent trends of atmospherically transported trace organic compounds in Canadian arctic snow ...
title_full Deposition and recent trends of atmospherically transported trace organic compounds in Canadian arctic snow ...
title_fullStr Deposition and recent trends of atmospherically transported trace organic compounds in Canadian arctic snow ...
title_full_unstemmed Deposition and recent trends of atmospherically transported trace organic compounds in Canadian arctic snow ...
title_sort deposition and recent trends of atmospherically transported trace organic compounds in canadian arctic snow ...
publisher Université de Genève
publishDate 1989
url https://dx.doi.org/10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:174805
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