The Research of the Contamination Levels present in Samples of Precipitation and Surface Waters Collected from the Catchment Area Fuglebekken (Hornsund, Svalbard Archipelago)

Marek Ruman; Małgorzata Szopińska; Katarzyna Kozak; Sara Lehmann-Konera; Żaneta Polkowska

The Research of the Contamination Levels present in Samples of Precipitation and Surface Waters Collected from the Catchment Area Fuglebekken (Hornsund, Svalbard Archipelago)

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Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are contaminants that may appear in polar regions. In present work surface water was collected from the main stream water in the Fuglebekken basin. The precipitationsamples was collected from the near area by Polish Polar Station in Hornsund. The present investigationreveals the results of the analysis of these samples for their total phenols, formaldehyde, TOC, PAHs and PCBs content. The presence in the basin (thousands of kilometers distant from industrial centers) of those compounds is testimony to the fact that these compounds are transported over vast distances with air masses and deposited in regions devoid of any human impact.

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Marek Ruman
- Wydział Nauk o Ziemi, Uniwersytet Śląski Katedra Geografii Fizycznej
Małgorzata Szopińska dr inż.
Katarzyna Kozak
Sara Lehmann-Konera
Żaneta Polkowska prof. dr hab. inż.

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Category:: Conference activity
Type:: materiały konferencyjne indeksowane w Web of Science
Published in:: AIP Conference Proceedings no. 1618, pages 297 - 300,
ISSN: 0094-243X
Title of issue:: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING 2014 (ICCMSE 2014) strony 297 - 300
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2014
Bibliographic description:: Ruman M., Szopińska M., Kozak K., Lehmann S., Polkowska Ż..: The Research of the Contamination Levels present in Samples of Precipitation and Surface Waters Collected from the Catchment Area Fuglebekken (Hornsund, Svalbard Archipelago), W: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING 2014 (ICCMSE 2014), 2014, American Institute of Physics,.
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