Ice characteristics, and mercury content of ice, air and underlying seawater in the eastern Beaufort Sea

• Main Authors: Chaulk, Amanda, Stern, Gary A, Armstrong, Debbie, Barber, David G, Wang, Feiyue
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Beaufort Sea; ice core; International Polar Year; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.808217; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.808217

The Arctic sea-ice environment has been undergoing dramatic changes in the past decades; to which extent this will affect the deposition, fate, and effects of chemical contaminants remains virtually unknown. Here, we report the first study on the distribution and transport of mercury (Hg) across the...