Anthropogenic particles in sediment from an Arctic fjord
peer reviewed The research on plastic pollution is increasing worldwide but little is known about the contamination levels in the Arctic by microplastics and other anthropogenic particles (APs) such as dyed !bres. In this study, two different sampling designs were developed to collect 68 sediment su...
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ftorbi:oai:orbi.ulg.ac.be:2268/257141 2024-04-21T08:06:36+00:00 Anthropogenic particles in sediment from an Arctic fjord Collard, France Husum, Katrine Eppe, Gauthier Malherbe, Cédric Hallanger, Ingeborg Divine, Dmitry Gabrielsen, Geir MolSys - Molecular Systems - ULiège 2021 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/257141 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145575 en eng Elsevier urn:issn:0048-9697 urn:issn:1879-1026 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/257141 info:hdl:2268/257141 doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145575 scopus-id:2-s2.0-85100691688 info:pmid:33770875 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Science of the Total Environment (2021) Anthropogenic particles Microplastics Arctic Sediment dye Fibres Physical chemical mathematical & earth Sciences Chemistry Physique chimie mathématiques & sciences de la terre journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 info:eu-repo/semantics/article peer reviewed 2021 ftorbi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145575 2024-03-27T14:56:53Z peer reviewed The research on plastic pollution is increasing worldwide but little is known about the contamination levels in the Arctic by microplastics and other anthropogenic particles (APs) such as dyed !bres. In this study, two different sampling designs were developed to collect 68 sediment subsamples in !ve locations in a remote Arctic fjord, Kongsfjorden, northwest of Svalbard. Those !ve stations composed a transect from a sewage outlet recently installed close to the northernmost settlement, Ny-Ålesund, to an offshore site. Plastics and other APs were ex- tracted by density separation and analysed by both Raman and Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy. Among the 37 APs found, 19 were microplastics. The others were classi!ed as APs due to the presence of a dye or another additive. On average, 0.33 AP 100 g!1 were found in the surface sediment and their sizes ranged between 0.10 and 6.31 mm. The site most polluted by APs was located at the mouth of the fjord while the less polluted ones were the offshore and the outlet sites. We believe that currents in the fjord have carried APs towards the mouth of the fjord where an eddy could retain APs which might sink the sea"oor due to various reasons (ingestion & packag- ing, fouling-induced changes in buoyancy). In the cores, several different APs were found down to a depth of 12 cm. These APs may have been present in the sediments for decades or been transported deeper by biota. Here we pro- vided data on plastic but also on other anthropogenic particles from a remote fjord in Svalbard. Article in Journal/Newspaper Kongsfjord* Kongsfjorden Ny Ålesund Ny-Ålesund Svalbard University of Liège: ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) Science of The Total Environment 772 145575 |
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Anthropogenic particles Microplastics Arctic Sediment dye Fibres Physical chemical mathematical & earth Sciences Chemistry Physique chimie mathématiques & sciences de la terre Collard, France Husum, Katrine Eppe, Gauthier Malherbe, Cédric Hallanger, Ingeborg Divine, Dmitry Gabrielsen, Geir Anthropogenic particles in sediment from an Arctic fjord |
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peer reviewed The research on plastic pollution is increasing worldwide but little is known about the contamination levels in the Arctic by microplastics and other anthropogenic particles (APs) such as dyed !bres. In this study, two different sampling designs were developed to collect 68 sediment subsamples in !ve locations in a remote Arctic fjord, Kongsfjorden, northwest of Svalbard. Those !ve stations composed a transect from a sewage outlet recently installed close to the northernmost settlement, Ny-Ålesund, to an offshore site. Plastics and other APs were ex- tracted by density separation and analysed by both Raman and Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy. Among the 37 APs found, 19 were microplastics. The others were classi!ed as APs due to the presence of a dye or another additive. On average, 0.33 AP 100 g!1 were found in the surface sediment and their sizes ranged between 0.10 and 6.31 mm. The site most polluted by APs was located at the mouth of the fjord while the less polluted ones were the offshore and the outlet sites. We believe that currents in the fjord have carried APs towards the mouth of the fjord where an eddy could retain APs which might sink the sea"oor due to various reasons (ingestion & packag- ing, fouling-induced changes in buoyancy). In the cores, several different APs were found down to a depth of 12 cm. These APs may have been present in the sediments for decades or been transported deeper by biota. Here we pro- vided data on plastic but also on other anthropogenic particles from a remote fjord in Svalbard. |
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Anthropogenic particles in sediment from an Arctic fjord |
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Anthropogenic particles in sediment from an Arctic fjord |
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