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10 year trend of levels of organochlorine pollutants in Antarctic seabirds
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2357 See the link below for public details on this project.
---- Public Summary from Project ----
Contaminants like PCBs and DDE have hardly been used Antarctica. Hence, this is an excellent place to monitor global background levels of these organochlorines. In this project concentrations in penguins and petrels will be compared to 10 years ago, which will show time trends of global background contamination levels.
Data set description
From several birds from Hop Island, Rauer Islands near Davis, samples were collected from preenoil (oil that birds excrete to preen their feathers. This preenoil was then analysed for organochlorine pollutants like polychlorinated biphenyls, (PCBs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), DDE and dieldrin. The species under investigation were the Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) and the Southern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides). The samples were collected from adult breeding birds, and stored in -20 degrees C as soon as possible. The analysis was done with relatively standard but very optimised methods, using a gas-chromatograph and mass-selective detection.
Data sheets:
The data are available in excel-sheets, located at Alterra, The Netherlands (the affiliation of the PI Nico van den Brink.). Data are available on PCB153 (polychlorinated biphenyl congener numbered 153), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), DDE (a metabolite of the pesticide DDT), and dieldrin (an insecticide).
The metadata are in 4 sheets (in meta data 2357.xls):
1. 'Concentrations fulmars'
2. 'Morphometric data fulmars'
3. 'Concentrations Adelies'
4. 'Morphometric data Adelies'
The column headings are:
1. 'Concentrations fulmars'
- Fulmar: bird number, corresponds with sheet 'morphometric data fulmars'.
- PCB153: concentration of PCB-congener 153 (ng/g lipids)
- HCB: concentration of hexachlorobenzene (ng/g lipids)
- DDE: concentration of DDE (ng/g lipids)
- Dieldrin: concentration of dieldrin (ng/g lipids)
- Sample size weight of collected amount of preenoil
2. Morphometric data fulmars
- Fulmar: bird number, corresponds with sheet 'Concentrations fulmars'.
- Bill Length (mm): length of bill (tip to base)
- Head Length (mm): length of head (tip of bill to back of head)
- Tarsus (mm): length of tarsus
- Wing Length (cm): length of right wing
- Weight (kg): weight of bird (without bag)
3. 'Concentrations Adelies'
Adelie: bird number, corresponds with sheet 'morphometric data Adelies'.
- PCB153: concentration of PCB-congener 153 (ng/g lipids)
- HCB: concentration of hexachlorobenzene (ng/g lipids)
- DDE: concentration of DDE (ng/g lipids)
- Dieldrin: concentration of dieldrin (ng/g lipids)
- Sample size weight of collected amount of preenoil
4. 'Morphometric data Adelies'
- Adelie: bird number, corresponds with sheet 'Concentrations Adelies'.
- Bill (mm): length of bill (tip to base)
- Head Length (mm): length of head (tip of bill to back of head)
- Tarsus (mm): length of tarsus
- Flipper Length (cm): length of right flipper (wing)
- Weight (kg): weight of bird (without bag)
In sheets on concentrations: less than d.l.: concentrations below detection limits.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- 10 year trend of levels of organochlorine pollutants in Antarctic seabirds
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-11-15
- Edition
- 2
- Citation identifier
-
Dataset DOI
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-04-23
- Citation identifier
- ISO 26324:2012
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.4225/15/574BBCA366F61
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
-
- Biota
- Environment
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 2003-12-16 2004-01-18
- Title
- Penguin colonies as secondary sources of contamination with persistent organic pollutants
- Date (Publication)
- 2007
- Citation identifier
- 9
Author
- Name
- Journal of Environmental Monitoring
- Issue identification
- 8
- Page
- 822-825
- Title
- Contrasting time trends of organic contaminants in Antarctic pelagic and benthic food webs
- Date (Publication)
- 2010
Author
- Name
- Marine Pollution Bulletin
- Other citation details
- In press
- Title
- Correspondence on Geisz et al. Melting Glaciers: A Probable Source of DDT to the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem
- Date (Publication)
- 2009
- Citation identifier
- 43
- Citation identifier
- DOI: 10.1021/es8034494
Author
- Name
- Environ. Sci. Technol.
- Issue identification
- 10
- Page
- 3976-3977
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOTOXICOLOGY > SPECIES BIOACCUMULATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOTOXICOLOGY > TOXICITY LEVELS
- Keywords
-
- ANTARCTICA
- ORGANOCHLORINES
- SEABIRDS
- fulmar
- Adelie penguin
- preenoil
- polychlorinated biphenyls
- hexachlorobenzene
- dieldrin
- PCB
- HCB
- DDE
- Pygoscelis adeliae
- Fulmarus glacialoides
- morphometrics
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- LABORATORY
- FIELD INVESTIGATION
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Rauer Group
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- These data are publicly available for download at the provided URL. Copies of three publications are also available for download by Australian Antarctic Division staff.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
-
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- Use constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_2357 when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- free
- Planned available datetime
- 2010-11-15T00:00:00
Distributor
- Fees
- free
- Planned available datetime
- 2010-11-15T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- kb
- Transfer size
- 42
- Distribution format
-
- Excel, csv
- Units of distribution
- MB
- Transfer size
- 1.77
- Distribution format
-
- OnLine resource
-
GET DATA
Download Point for the data
- OnLine resource
-
PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 2357
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION > PUBLICATIONS
Download point for the publications
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- The concentrations were very low. Only for PCB153 several observations could be detected above detection limits. For other congeners most observations were below detection limits. Generally the samples of the Adelie penguins were smaller. 2018-08-29 - The original files was reformatted to fit OBIS/GBFI/IPT Biodiversity.AQ tracking standards, and a new datasheet "PollutantsInSeabirds_2003_04.csv" was created. The new dataset contains datasetID, occurrenceID, recordNumber, locationID, lifeStage, locality, verbatimLatitude, verbatimLongitude, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, eventDate, year, month, day, samplingProtocol, institutionCode, country, countryCode, measurementType, measurementUnit, measurementValue, dynamicProperties, occurrenceStatus, occurrenceRemarks, basisOfRecord, and associatedReferences. The lowest taxonomical rank of the species identified that could be determined is provided, after matched in WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species).
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2010-11-15 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data and add publications. 2016-04-14 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2018-08-29 - record updated by Dave Connell after a reformatted dataset was provided by Daniela Farias.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/ASAC_2357
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- fb11cf0e-675b-488c-ab47-da9f70875767
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2015-11-29T18:25:29
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
-
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2357
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2003-05-26T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2018-08-29
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
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