AURORAE

11/06/2018

By the way a week ago we published a letter to Science on the risk of extinction of the Greenland sled dogs.

Dog ( Canis familiaris ) and sled remains found together suggest that the first sled dogs arose approximately 10,000 years ago ([ 1 ][1]). The ancestors to current sled dog breeds were essential to the Inuit's conquest of the Arctic. Sled dogs provided the main transport and hunting platform ([ 2 ][

11/06/2018

We also recently got a paper out in Environment International on Immunologic, reproductive, and carcinogenic risk assessment from POP exposure in East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus) during 1983–2013.

11/06/2018

Another paper was spearheaded by Tom A. Davidson and was on the history of seabird colonies and the North Water ecosystem: Contributions from palaeoecological and archaeological evidence https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1031-1

11/06/2018

We terminated our three year Northwater project NOW with a special issue in AMBIO. here is one of the papers that I took the lead on.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13280-018-1033-z

03/04/2018

We're organising a session on POPs in Polar, Circumpolar and Alpine Regions at the upcoming DIOXIN 2018 conference in Krakow, Poland.

See here for more information, and come and join us in presenting and discussing on the newest research !

Dioxin 2018 | 38th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants Dioxin 2018 and 10th International PCB Workshop 26 – 31 August 2018, Kraków, Poland

08/02/2018

This is a great article by Adelle who have worked with some of the live liver cells to study biotransformation of PFAS, cells we sampled from ringed seals and polar bear during our high quality sampling in Scoresby Sound.

ChemosphereVolume 196, April 2018, Pages 240-250Organophosphate esters in East Greenland polar bears and ringed seals: Adipose tissue concentrations and in vitro depletion and metabolite formationAuthor links open overlay panelAdelleStrobelabWilliam G.WillmoreaChristianSonnecRuneDietzcRobert J.Letch...

08/02/2018

Here is one more that Emilie took the lead on 😀

For the first time in > 30 years of routine sampling under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, a parasite was found in the liver of ringed seals ( Phoca hispida) collected near Qaanaaq...

08/02/2018

It’s been a while since we last informed about some of our published work, so her is one of the recent papers

Environmental ResearchVolume 162, April 2018, Pages 74-80Persistent organic pollutants, skull size and bone density of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from East Greenland 1892–2015 and Svalbard 1964–2004Author links open overlay panelTobiasDaugaard-PetersenaRikkeLangebækbFrank F.RigétaRobert J.L...

08/12/2017

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/07/569160429/stressed-out-narwhals-dont-know-whether-to-freeze-or-flee-scientists-find

After being caught in a net, narwhals appear to get confused about what to do. Researchers say the whales' befuddlement could provide clues about how they will adapt to a changing Arctic.

01/10/2017

Check out this article. At least it contains pictures that are quite unusual even when you travel in the Arctic.
https://www.facebook.com/TheSiberianTimes/posts/1532192223503918

10/08/2017

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/09/542488351/some-tuna-can-carry-up-36-times-the-toxins-of-others-heres-why

When it comes to pollutant levels, researchers now say where your tuna was caught can make a huge difference. But tracking your yellowfin to the spot it was caught may be tricky.

13/07/2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/07/13/polar-bears-hurt-by-climate-change-are-more-likely-to-turn-to-a-new-food-source-humans/?utm_term=.5a97d95ed9af

A group of scientists has posited another potential impact of global warming on polar bears. It involves you being lunch.