Balsa raft crossing the pacific finds low contaminant levels

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4783-4790

  Goksøyr, Anders ^a,b   Tollefsen, Knut Erik ^c,d   Grung, Merete ^c   Løken, Katharina ^d   Lie, Elisabeth ^d   Zenker, Armin ^e   Fent, Karl ^e,f   Schlabach, Martin ^g   Huber, Sandra ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Biosense Laboratories AS   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SURFACES; BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; FISH BILE; ORGANOCHLORINE CONTAMINANTS; ORGANOCHLORINES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENTS; SAMPLING RATES; SEMIPERMEABLE MEMBRANE DEVICES; UV-FILTERS; WATER CONCENTRATIONS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; FLAME RETARDANTS; IMPURITIES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; WATER POLLUTION;

SURFACE WATERS;

ANTHRACENE; CHLORDANE; CHLORINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORPHENOTANE; FLAME RETARDANT; FLUORENE; NAPHTHALENE; NONACHLOR; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PESTICIDE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; PYRENE; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY METHOD; ORGANOCHLORINE; PERMEABILITY; SAMPLING; SURFACE WATER; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BILE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FISH; PACIFIC OCEAN; TRAVEL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

CHLORINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PESTICIDES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; PACIFIC OCEAN; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 67649967191     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900154h     Document Type: Article

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