Transfer of organic pollutants from the abiotic environment to the lowest tropic levels of the ice associated food chain

Updated 2000-10-24

The aim of the project is to detrmine the content of organic contaminants in sea ice (including dirty ice), sea water (particulate and dissolved), snow, ice algae and phytoplankton collected in the marginal ice zone of the Barents Sea and in Fram Strait, and to calculate bioconcentration factors from the abiotic compartments to the lowest trophic levels of the food chain. Silicate measurements were included in the Fram Strait as water mass tracer. The Barents Sea represents an area influence mainly by first year ice with sea ice formed in the area and or in the Kara Sea, and and strongly influenced by the inflowing two branches of water of Atlantic origin. Samples were collected on a transect along the ice edge and at two transects into the ice. The stations across the Fram Strait were taken in regions affected by water masses and sea ice from differents regions and age. In the western sector, the upper water column was influenced by the inflowing west Spitsbergen current of Atlantic origin and mainly with first-second year ice, while the easter station was influenced by outflowing water from the Arctic Ocean and multiyear sea ice of more eastern origin.

This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project

Time frame

Status
Ongoing
Project time span
1998 - 2001
Data collection
1997 - 1999
Data processing
2000 - 2001
Data reporting
2001 - 2001

Contact information

Contact person
Kristina Olsson
Address
Akvaplan-niva Polar Environmental Centre N-92 96 Tromsoe Norway
Phone
+47 77 75 03 00
Fax
+47 77 75 03 01
Email
on.avin.nalpavka@nosslo.anitsirk
Other project contacts
Salve Dahle (Akvaplan-niva) Anita Evenset (Akvaplan-niva)

Parameters and Media

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
Media sampled/studied/modelled
Algae (algae, phytoplankton)
Ice/snowpack
Precipitation/snow
Seawater/suspended particulate matter

Geography

Regions studied
Marine TDC
Other areas
Fram Strait

Data availability

Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?
yes-all
Data centres
Marine TDC
Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
No

Methods & Procedures

Procedures and methodology used for, e.g., sampling and sample storage, sample pretreatment, extraction and analysis, including which laboratories are involved, references to methods employed, etc.

Sampling (storage): 1) Snow: 50 L stainless steel container (-20 C) 2) sea ice: Metal ice drill (aluminum foil in ziplock bags, -20 C) 3) sea water: large volume filtration unit, particulate (GFF/GFC) and dissolved (PUFs) phase (filters and PUFs in aluminum foil, ziplock bags,-20 C) 4) ice algae: diver, suction pump, 25 um filter (filters in pyrex bottles, -20 C) 5) phytoplankton: 25 um nets(filters in pyrex bottles, -20 C) Analyses in ongoing and performed by the Department of Applied Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden

Additional Information

Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
No
Other institutes involved in the project

Department of Applied Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University

Is this project reporting to other organizations/programmes?

The Effects Programme, which is a programme by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment

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