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Cryoconite: a sensitive indicator for anthropogenic contamination in high altitude mountain glaciers

2018/31/B/ST10/03057

Keywords:

cryoconite radionuclides heavy metals Northern Southern Hemisphere

Descriptors:

  • ST10_4: Geochemistry, biogeochemistry
  • ST10_16: Changes/shaping and protection of the natural environment
  • ST10_7: Geomorphology, cryosphere, global and regional changes of the Earth's landscape

Panel:

ST10 - Earth sciences: Earth system science, atmospheric sciences, climatology, geochemistry, geodesy, geoecology, geophysics, physical geography, geoinformatics, planetary geology, pedology, mining, chemical and physical oceanology, environmental protection

Host institution :

Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej im. Henryka Niewodniczańskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Edyta Łokas 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 6

Call: OPUS 16 - announced on 2018-09-14

Amount awarded: 741 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2019-07-24

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2023-07-23

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. 8 komorowy spektrometr alfa (300 000 PLN)

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (4)
  1. Unveiling the extreme environmental radioactivity of cryoconite from a Norwegian glacier
    Authors:
    Łokas, E., Wachniew, P., Baccolo, G., Gaca, P., Janko, K., Milton, A., ... & Zawierucha, K.
    Academic press:
    Science of The Total Environment (rok: 2022, tom: 814, strony: 152656), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152656 - link to the publication
  2. Cryoconite – From minerals and organic matter to bioengineered sediments on glacier's surfaces
    Authors:
    Rozwalak, P., Podkowa, P., Buda, J., Niedzielski, P., Kawecki, S., Ambrosini, R., Azzoni RS, Baccolo G., Ceballos JL, Cook J, Mauro BD, Ficetola FG, Franzetti A, Ignatiuk D, Klimaszyk P, Łokas E, Ono M, Parnikoza I & Zawierucha, K
    Academic press:
    Science of The Total Environment (rok: 2022, tom: 807 part 2, strony: 150874), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150874 - link to the publication
  3. Accumulation of environmental radioactivity on the surface of a High Arctic ice cap (Flade Isblink, NE Greenland)
    Authors:
    Beard, Dylan; Baccolo, Giovanni; Clason, Caroline; Millward, Geoffrey; Lokas, Edyta; Rangecroft, Sally; Sala, Dariusz ; Wachniew, Przemysław; Blake, William
    Academic press:
    Environmental Science & Technology (rok: 2024, ), Wydawca: America Chemical Society
    Status:
    Submitted
  4. Global variability and controls on the accumulation of fallout radionuclides in cryoconite
    Authors:
    Caroline C. Clason, Giovanni Baccolo, Edyta Łokas, Philip N. Owens, Przemyslaw Wachniew, Geoff E. Millward, Alex Taylor, Will H. Blake, Dylan B. Beard, Ewa Poniecka, Nick Selmes, Elizabeth A. Bagshaw, Joseph Cook, Ralph Fyfe, Melanie Hay, Deborah Land, Nozomu Takeuchi, Massimiliano Nastasi, Monica Sisti, Francesca Pittino, Andrea Franzetti, Roberto Ambrosini, Biagio Di Mauro
    Academic press:
    Science of the Total Environment (rok: 2023, tom: 894, strony: 164902), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164902 - link to the publication

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