Long range toxic metal pollution in Australia and the Southern Ocean

澳大利亚和南大洋的远距离有毒金属污染

• 批准号: DP220100828
• 负责人: A/Prof Larissa Schneider
• 金额: $ 29.18万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-12-23 至 2025-12-23
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP220100828
• 关键词: Long; range; toxic; metal; pollution

This project aims to investigate how environmental change and human activities since industrialisation have impacted toxic metal transport and deposition on the south coast of Australia, Tasmania and Southern Ocean islands. This project expects to fill gaps in understanding of the global mercury cycle using a state-of-the-art multidisciplinary methodology including the role of sea salt aerosols and hemispheric-scale wind patterns . Anticipated outcomes involve a novel palaeo-atmospheric model that can be applied in other parts of the world. This should provide significant benefits, such as science-based evidence to ratify the Minamata Convention on Mercury and guide new regulations to reduce environmental/health risks from metal pollution.

该项目旨在调查工业化以来的环境变化和人类活动如何影响澳大利亚南海岸、塔斯马尼亚和南大洋岛屿的有毒金属运输和沉积。该项目预计利用最先进的多学科方法，包括海盐气溶胶的作用和半球规模的风型，来填补对全球汞循环的理解空白。预期结果涉及一种可应用于世界其他地区的新型古大气模型。这应该会带来显着的好处，例如批准《水俣公约》的科学证据，并指导新法规减少金属污染带来的环境/健康风险。