Baseline metal concentrations in Paramoera walkeri from East Antarctica

• Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Main Authors: Palmer, AS, Snape, I, Stark, JS, Johnstone, GJ, Townsend, AT
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: 259902 Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry); Trace metals; Magnetic sector ICP-MS; Casey Station; Rare earth elements; Biomonitoring; Euphausia superba; East Antarctica; Austral; Windmill Islands; Thala Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/6820/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/6820/1/06_Palmer_Gammarids_MPB.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2006.04.012

Remediation of the Thala Valley waste disposal site near Casey Station, East Antarctica was conducted in the austral summer of 2003/2004. Biomonitoring of the adjacent marine environment was undertaken using the gammaridean amphipod Paramoera walkeri as a sentinel species [Stark, J.S., Johnstone, G....