An antarctic research station as a source of brominated and perfluorinated persistent organic pollutants to the local environment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 103-112

  Wild, Seanan ^a   McLagan, David ^a   Schlabach, Martin ^b   Bossi, Rossana ^c   Hawker, Darryl ^a   Cropp, Roger ^a   King, Catherine K ^d   Stark, Jonathan S ^d   Mondon, Julie ^e   Nash, Susan Bengtson ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^e DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; DUST; EFFLUENTS; POLLUTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; PERFLUOROALKYLATED SUBSTANCES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); SECONDARY TREATMENT PLANTS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; TREATED WASTEWATER;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; DANGEROUS GOODS; DECABROMOBIPHENYL ETHER; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; DUST; FLUORINATED HYDROCARBON; SOIL POLLUTANT; WASTE WATER;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HUMAN ACTIVITY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; RESEARCH PROGRAM;

AMPHIPODA; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BROMINATION; BUILDING; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; DRY WEIGHT; DUST; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOSS; NONHUMAN; PERFLUORINATION; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SOIL; VAPOR; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DANGEROUS GOODS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HALOGENATION; PERCIFORMES; RESEARCH; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BRYOPHYTA; DUST; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HALOGENATION; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; LICHENS; PERCIFORMES; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESEARCH; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84923055897     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5048232     Document Type: Article

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