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    Finding pesticides in the Arctic and Antarctic

    by richard-hann 10. October 2021

    Another paper on the topic of industrial chemicals that I have contributed to has been published. The paper is titled: “Historic Atmospheric Organochlorine Pesticide and Halogenated Industrial Compound Inputs to Glacier Ice Cores in Antarctica and the Arctic“. In the paper we are looking at…

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    Finding industrial pollutants in the Arctic and the Antarctic

    by richard-hann 4. November 2020

    I have been contributing to a paper that was recently published, where we investigated industrial pollutants found in locations in the Arctic and the Antartic. We analysed ice and firn cores from glaciers and ice sheets for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from two sites – one…

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    Finding Industrial Pollutants on Svalbard Glaciers

    by richard-hann 21. September 2020

    In a recent article that I worked on, we studied winter snow samples from four glaciers on Svalbard. We analyzed the snow for organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and found seven industrial compounds. These pesticides are categorized as persistent organic pollutants – this means that they degrade…

    Atmospheric Pollution, Svalbard 0

    How Atmospheric “Vacuum Cleaners” Work for Science

    by richard-hann 10. December 2019

    Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are a type of human-made toxic chemicals that can be found all over the world. POPs can travel large distances in short time periods in the atmosphere. One of the scientific tools to measure the amount of POPs in the air…

    Atmospheric Pollution, Svalbard 0

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