| Title: | Semi volatile organic compounds in the snow of Russian Arctic islands: Archipelago Novaya Zemlya |
| Author(s): | Lebedev AT; Mazur DM; Polyakova OV; Kosyakov DS; Kozhevnikov AY; Latkin TB; Andreeva Yu I; Artaev VB; |
| Address: | "Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chemistry Department, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119991, Russia; Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Core Facility Center 'Arktika', Nab. Severnoy Dviny 17, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russia. Electronic address: a.lebedev@org.chem.msu.ru. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chemistry Department, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119991, Russia; Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Core Facility Center 'Arktika', Nab. Severnoy Dviny 17, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russia. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chemistry Department, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119991, Russia. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Core Facility Center 'Arktika', Nab. Severnoy Dviny 17, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russia. LECO Corporation, 3000 Lakeview Avenue, St. Joseph, MI, USA" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.03.009 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1873-6424 (Electronic) 0269-7491 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Environmental contamination of the Arctic has widely been used as a worldwide pollution marker. Various classes of organic pollutants such as pesticides, personal care products, PAHs, flame retardants, biomass burning markers, and many others emerging contaminants have been regularly detected in Arctic samples. Although numerous papers have been published reporting data from the Canadian, Danish, and Norwegian Arctic regions, the environmental situation in Russian Arctic remains mostly underreported. Snow analysis is known to be used for monitoring air pollution in the regions with cold climate in both short-term and long-term studies. This paper presents the results of a nontargeted study on the semivolatile organic compounds detected and identified in snow samples collected at the Russian Artic Archipelago Novaya Zemlya in June 2016. Gas chromatography coupled to a high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer enabled the simultaneous detection and quantification of a variety of pollutants including those from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) priority pollutants list, emerging contaminants (plasticizers, flame retardants-only detection), as well as the identification of novel Arctic organic pollutants, (e.g., fatty acid amides and polyoxyalkanes). The possible sources of these novel pollutants are also discussed. GC-HRMS enabled the detection and identification of emerging contaminants and novel organic pollutants in the Arctic, e.g., fatty amides and polyoxyalkanes" |
| Keywords: | Arctic Regions Canada *Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollutants/*analysis Environmental Pollution/analysis/statistics & numerical data Flame Retardants/analysis Islands Norway Pesticides/analysis Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis Russia S; |
| Notes: | "MedlineLebedev, A T Mazur, D M Polyakova, O V Kosyakov, D S Kozhevnikov, A Yu Latkin, T B Andreeva Yu, I Artaev, V B eng England 2018/04/22 Environ Pollut. 2018 Aug; 239:416-427. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.03.009. Epub 2018 Apr 19" |
