PMID- 27983810
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170609
LR  - 20180919
IS  - 1520-5851 (Electronic)
IS  - 0013-936X (Linking)
VI  - 51
IP  - 3
DP  - 2017 Feb 7
TI  - Aquatic Global Passive Sampling (AQUA-GAPS) Revisited: First Steps toward a 
      Network of Networks for Monitoring Organic Contaminants in the Aquatic 
      Environment.
PG  - 1060-1067
LID - 10.1021/acs.est.6b05159 [doi]
AB  - Organic contaminants, in particular persistent organic pollutants (POPs), 
      adversely affect water quality and aquatic food webs across the globe. As of now, 
      there is no globally consistent information available on concentrations of 
      dissolved POPs in water bodies. The advance of passive sampling techniques has 
      made it possible to establish a global monitoring program for these compounds in 
      the waters of the world, which we call the Aquatic Global Passive Sampling 
      (AQUA-GAPS) network. A recent expert meeting discussed the background, 
      motivations, and strategic approaches of AQUA-GAPS, and its implementation as a 
      network of networks for monitoring organic contaminants (e.g., POPs and others 
      contaminants of concern). Initially, AQUA-GAPS will demonstrate its operating 
      principle via two proof-of-concept studies focused on the detection of legacy and 
      emerging POPs in freshwater and coastal marine sites using both polyethylene and 
      silicone passive samplers. AQUA-GAPS is set up as a decentralized network, which 
      is open to other participants from around the world to participate in deployments 
      and to initiate new studies. In particular, participants are sought to initiate 
      deployments and studies investigating the presence of legacy and emerging POPs in 
      Africa, Central, and South America.
FAU - Lohmann, Rainer
AU  - Lohmann R
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8796-3229
AD  - Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island , Narragansett, Rhode 
      Island 02882-1197, United States.
FAU - Muir, Derek
AU  - Muir D
AD  - Environment and Climate Change Canada, Aquatic Contaminants Research Division, 
      867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario Canada L7S 1A1.
AD  - School of Environment, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Exposure and 
      Health and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health, Jinan 
      University , Guangzhou 510632, China.
FAU - Zeng, Eddy Y
AU  - Zeng EY
AD  - School of Environment, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Exposure and 
      Health and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health, Jinan 
      University , Guangzhou 510632, China.
FAU - Bao, Lian-Jun
AU  - Bao LJ
AD  - School of Environment, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Exposure and 
      Health and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health, Jinan 
      University , Guangzhou 510632, China.
FAU - Allan, Ian J
AU  - Allan IJ
AD  - Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) , Gaustadalleen 21, NO-0349 Oslo, 
      Norway.
FAU - Arinaitwe, Kenneth
AU  - Arinaitwe K
AD  - Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University , P.O. 
      Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda.
FAU - Booij, Kees
AU  - Booij K
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3962-3155
AD  - PaSOC, Greate Pierwei 25, 8821 LV Kimswerd, The Netherlands.
FAU - Helm, Paul
AU  - Helm P
AD  - Environmental Monitoring and Reporting Branch, Ontario Ministry of the 
      Environment and Climate Change, Toronto, Ontario Canada M9P 3 V6.
FAU - Kaserzon, Sarit
AU  - Kaserzon S
AD  - The Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University 
      of Queensland , 39 Kessels Road, Coopers Plains, Queensland 4108, Australia.
FAU - Mueller, Jochen F
AU  - Mueller JF
AD  - The Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University 
      of Queensland , 39 Kessels Road, Coopers Plains, Queensland 4108, Australia.
FAU - Shibata, Yasuyuki
AU  - Shibata Y
AD  - Center for Environmental Measurement and Analysis, National Institute for 
      Environmental Studies , 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan.
FAU - Smedes, Foppe
AU  - Smedes F
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1018-0063
AD  - Research Center for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX), Masaryk 
      University , Kamenice 5/573, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic.
FAU - Tsapakis, Manolis
AU  - Tsapakis M
AD  - Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography , Gournes, Crete 
      Greece.
FAU - Wong, Charles S
AU  - Wong CS
AD  - School of Environment, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Exposure and 
      Health and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health, Jinan 
      University , Guangzhou 510632, China.
AD  - Richardson College for the Environment, University of Winnipeg , Winnipeg 
      Manitoba R3B 2E9 Canada.
FAU - You, Jing
AU  - You J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4006-8339
AD  - School of Environment, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Exposure and 
      Health and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health, Jinan 
      University , Guangzhou 510632, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20170111
PL  - United States
TA  - Environ Sci Technol
JT  - Environmental science & technology
JID - 0213155
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - 059QF0KO0R (Water)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Fresh Water
MH  - Humans
MH  - Water
MH  - *Water Pollutants, Chemical
MH  - Water Quality
EDAT- 2016/12/17 06:00
MHDA- 2017/06/10 06:00
CRDT- 2016/12/17 06:00
PHST- 2016/12/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/06/10 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/12/17 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1021/acs.est.6b05159 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Technol. 2017 Feb 7;51(3):1060-1067. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b05159. 
      Epub 2017 Jan 11.