Effects of fuel spills on Arctic soil, 32 years later (Hornsund, Svalbard)

• Main Authors: Anna J. Krzyszowska Waitkus, Brian Waitkus
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polish Academy of Sciences 2019
• Subjects: arctic; spitsbergen; polish polar station; soil pollution; total petroleum hydrocarbons; dissipation rate; Geology; QE1-996.5; Arctic; Svalbard; Hornsund; permafrost; Polar Research; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24425/ppr.2019.130900; https://doaj.org/article/9b92b45532ef41cb891707e619a0f272

The purpose of the study was to estimate in 2012 range and degree of soil contamination due to local diesel fuel leakage spills that occurred in 1980 and from any subsequent activities in the vicinity of the scientific Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The area of the study covered the imm...