The fate of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in a marine food web influenced by land-based sources in the Norwegian Arctic

• Published in: Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
• Main Authors: Aasim, Ali M, Langberg, Håkon Austad, Hale, Sarah, Kallenborn, Roland, Mortensen, Åse-Karen, Hartz, William F, Ciesielski, Tomasz Maciej, McDonought, Carrie A., Jenssen, Bjørn Munro, Breedveld, Gijs D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Longyearbyen; Svalbard; Glaucous Gull
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2827820; https://doi.org/10.1039/d0em00510j

Although poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous in the Arctic, their sources and fate in Arctic marine environments remain unclear. Herein, abiotic media (water, snow, and sediment) and biotic media (plankton, benthic organisms, fish, crab, and glaucous gull) were sampled to study PFAS uptake and fate in the marine food web of an Arctic Fjord in the vicinity of Longyearbyen (Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic). Samples were collected from locations impacted by a firefighting training site (FFTS) and a landfill as well as from a reference site. publishedVersion