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Modelling organic pollutants in permafrost soils (ModPOPper)
Call year: 2022
Status: active
IADC_id: 231
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A new assessment of the implications of climate change for Arctic contamination by persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is being produced during 2019/2020 by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program. POPs are chemicals that are characterized by their properties of persistence, which gives potential for long-range transport, bioaccumulation and toxicity. This raises concerns for both local human and wildlife health. (Miner et al., 2021). The main purpose is to combine large scale to local perspective is upscaling the data projections, from modelling inside a catchment area to regional scale, inspired by the approach of CryoGrid (Chaudhary et al., 2020). The Svalbard location is vital to the project, beyond the relevant collaboration with the University of Oslo research group, which has been conducting complementary studies in the last decades (Boike et al., 2018). The better understanding of POPs fate, developing fundamental datasets and process understanding, is an hot topic to quantify thawing permafrost and its impact on storage and vulnerability of organic contaminants on land. Measurements and projections of contaminants at the ecosystem and the soil level, in particular at different soil depths, can be directly related to results obtained by the Working Groups of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Ny-Ålesund Flagship focussing on environmental dynamics, soil processes and freshwater systems.
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Univeristy of Oslo and Stockholm University
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