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ECA-Environmental Contamination in Antarctica

Action Group established under the auspices of the Standing Scientific Group on Physical Sciences of SCAR.

Physical Sciences Report to XXIX SCAR, July 2006

Steering Committee:

Leader: Prof. Paolo Cescon, Institute for the Dynamics of the Environmental Processes-CNR, Venice, E-mail: cescon@unive.it

Co-leader: Prof. Gabriele Capodaglio, Department of Environmental Sciences, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, E-mail: capoda@unive.it

Prof. Claude Boutron, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, CNRS, Grenoble, E-mail: boutron@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr

Prof. Roger Fuoco, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, E-mail: fuoco@dcci.unipi.it
Dr. Sungmin Hong, Korean Polar Research Institute, KORDI, E-mail: smhong@kopri.re.kr

Prof. Guibin Jiang, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, E-mail: gbjiang@mail.rcees.ac.cn

Prof. Berry Lyons, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, E-mail: lyons.142@osu.edu

Prof. Kevin Rosman, Applied Physics Department, Curtin University, E-mail: K.Rosman@curtin.edu.au

Dr Jenny Webster-Brown, SGES-Environmental Science Programme and Dept of Chemistry, University of Auckland, E-mail: j.webster@auckland.ac.nz

Contacts with the AGCS programme:

Ms. Helen Campbell, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (H.Campbell@bas.ac.uk).

Dr. Xiao Cunde, Laboratory of Criosphere and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, China, (cdxiao@lzb.ac.cn)

Actions:

a) Inventory of the past, on-going and future research projects at an international level dealing with environmental contamination in the Antarctic continent.

The following is a preliminary list of topics of interest:

· Database and maps of chemical, physical and biological environmental parameters to follow the evolution of the environment in Polar Regions.

·  Analysis of local and long range contributions to the environmental contamination of polar regions.

·  Exchange processes between atmosphere, hydrosphere and the Antarctic continent involving chemical, physical and biological parameters of environmental interest.

·  Mutual interaction between climate and environmental changes, and processes controlling the dispersion and transport of micro-components in Polar Regions.

b) Extension and aggregation of the researchers involved in studies on Environmental Contamination in Polar regions.

c) Implementation of a web site through which all the information available can be shared with the international community.

d) Formation of new generations of polar scientists.

First Workshop (Venice, 14-16 June 2007)

Workshop on “Environmental Contamination in Antarctica - ECA”.

The main aims of the Workshop are:

· Analysis and comparison of national research projects.

· Coordination of studies on the Environmental Contamination in Polar Regions.

· To identify new research subjects for a better understanding and analysis of Environment Contamination on a global scale.

· Start up and implementation of an international program on the Environmental Contamination in Polar Regions

Projects dealing with the ECA activities

Approaches and means for monitorig of chemical pollution: environmental indicators, Antarctic Environmental Specimen Bank and certified reference materials.

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)

McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Tern Ecological Research (MCM-LTER).

Micropollutants and Microchemicals in the Environment: Cycling and Relationshps with Climate Changes (MICRA).

SCAR programmes and action groups

Programme on Antarctica and the Global Climate System (AGCS)

Publications

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