Spring Melt and the Redistribution of Organochlorine Pesticides in the Sea-Ice Environment: A Comparative Study between Arctic and Antarctic Regions

• Published in: Environmental Science & Technology
• Main Authors: Bigot, Marie, Hawker, Darryl W, Cropp, Roger, Muir, Derek CG, Jensen, Bjarne, Bossi, Rossana, Nash, Susan M Bengtson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 2017
• Subjects: Atmospheric composition; chemistry and processes; Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Greenland; Griffith; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/349005; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b02481

Complementary sampling of air, snow, sea-ice, and seawater for a range of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) was undertaken through the early stages of respective spring sea-ice melting at coastal sites in northeast Greenland and eastern Antarctica to investigate OCP concentrations and redistribution...