PMID- 33957587
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210608
LR  - 20210608
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 785
DP  - 2021 Sep 1
TI  - Low levels of PAHs and organotin compounds in surface sediment samples from a 
      broad marine area of 25 de Mayo (King George) Island, South Shetland Islands.
PG  - 147206
LID - S0048-9697(21)02277-4 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147206 [doi]
AB  - The Northern region of the Antarctic Peninsula constitutes the area with the 
      highest human presence in West Antarctica. The human presence, with all the 
      activities associated such as logistic, scientific and tourism operations, 
      represents a potential risk of chemical pollution with both, organic and 
      inorganic contaminants. Under these conditions knowledge about the presence and 
      levels of the main persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is essential to evaluate 
      the environmental status of this ecologically relevant and sensitive area. In 
      this work, which complements our previous study regarding trace elements, we 
      performed the first regional-scale monitoring of 24 PAHs (16 of them included in 
      EPA list of primary pollutant), and organotin compounds (OTCs:TBT, DBT and MBT) 
      in surface sediment from 68 sites comprising six different areas in Maxwell Bay, 
      southeast coast of 25 de Mayo (King George) Island. POPs were quantified in 
      surface sediment samples (20-30 m depth) obtained during two summer Antarctic 
      expeditions by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The two most 
      anthropized areas (South Fildes and Potter Cove) showed moderated evidence of 
      pollution for PAHs and OTC. In some sampling sites the concentration of total 
      PAHs was higher than 100 ng/g dw, while TBT was detected in only five samples, 
      two of them located in Potter Cove (ranged between 14 and 18 ng/g dw), and three, 
      located in South Fildes area (ranged between 118 and 416 ng/g dw). Although POPs 
      contamination was evidenced in some samples close to scientific stations, a 
      pollution pattern was not clearly identified.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Vodopivez, C
AU  - Vodopivez C
AD  - Instituto Antartico Argentino, 25 de Mayo 1143, San Martin B1650HMK, Provincia de 
      Buenos Aires, Argentina.
FAU - Curtosi, A
AU  - Curtosi A
AD  - Instituto Antartico Argentino, 25 de Mayo 1143, San Martin B1650HMK, Provincia de 
      Buenos Aires, Argentina.
FAU - Pelletier, E
AU  - Pelletier E
AD  - Institut des Sciences de la Mer de Rimouski (ISMER), Universite du Quebec a 
      Rimouski, 310 Allee des Ursulines, Rimouski G5L 3A1, Canada.
FAU - Saint-Louis, R
AU  - Saint-Louis R
AD  - Departement de biologie, chimie et geographie, Universite du Quebec a Rimouski, 
      300 Allee des Ursulines, Rimouski G5L 3A1, Canada.
FAU - Spairani, L U
AU  - Spairani LU
AD  - Instituto Antartico Argentino, 25 de Mayo 1143, San Martin B1650HMK, Provincia de 
      Buenos Aires, Argentina.
FAU - Hernandez, E A
AU  - Hernandez EA
AD  - Instituto Antartico Argentino, 25 de Mayo 1143, San Martin B1650HMK, Provincia de 
      Buenos Aires, Argentina; Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Farmacia y 
      Bioquimica, Instituto NANOBIOTEC UBA-CONICET, Junin 956 6to piso, CABA, 
      Argentina.
FAU - Zakrajsek, A
AU  - Zakrajsek A
AD  - Instituto Antartico Argentino, 25 de Mayo 1143, San Martin B1650HMK, Provincia de 
      Buenos Aires, Argentina.
FAU - Genez, A
AU  - Genez A
AD  - Instituto Antartico Argentino, 25 de Mayo 1143, San Martin B1650HMK, Provincia de 
      Buenos Aires, Argentina.
FAU - Mac Cormack, W P
AU  - Mac Cormack WP
AD  - Instituto Antartico Argentino, 25 de Mayo 1143, San Martin B1650HMK, Provincia de 
      Buenos Aires, Argentina; Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Farmacia y 
      Bioquimica, Instituto NANOBIOTEC UBA-CONICET, Junin 956 6to piso, CABA, 
      Argentina.. Electronic address: wmac@ffyb.uba.ar.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210420
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
SB  - IM
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Antarctica
OT  - Maxwell Bay sediments
OT  - PAHs
OT  - POPs
OT  - organotin compounds
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2021/05/07 06:00
MHDA- 2021/05/07 06:01
CRDT- 2021/05/06 20:46
PHST- 2019/12/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/04/13 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/04/13 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/05/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/05/07 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/05/06 20:46 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(21)02277-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147206 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2021 Sep 1;785:147206. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147206. 
      Epub 2021 Apr 20.