Description: ESTABLISH is part of the EU-COPERNICUS 2 programme Environment and industry: problems of selected regions and sectors with special focus on sustainable management of natural resources in the coastal areas of the Arctic. ESTABLISH involves 6 partners (Norway (2), Russia (3), Germany (1)) and investigates the bio-geochemical behaviour and fate of heavy metals and radionuclides in the Yenisei estuary, in the Russian/Siberian Arctic. According to recent AMAP studies, the greatest threat to human health and the environment in the Arctic is associated with the potential for nuclear accidents and failures in the containment of the large inventories of radioactive materials in storage, such as high-level liquid and solid wastes. One specific threat stems from the migration of radionuclides from major uncontained sources in the drainage basins of the Ob and Yenisei rivers. Russian studies concluded that many pollutants including heavy metals, enter the Arctic through river input from north-flowing rivers such as the Ob and Yenisei. Most of these pollutants accumulate in river mouths and estuaries before spreading into the Arctic marine basin. The aim of ESTABLISH is to model the biogeochemical behaviour and impact on man of selected heavy metals and radionuclides in the Yenisei Estuary. This will be achieved through the following objectives : (1) to measure contaminant levels in the environment (estuarine waters, sediments, tidally inundated areas and biota) (2) to simulate the transport of aqueous phase and sediment-bound contaminants in the Yenisei Estuary. (3) to identify the biogeochemical reactions at the salt-water/fresh-water interface (4) to determine the long-term fate of contaminants through the study of the spatial distribution of radionuclides and heavy metal in sediment deposits (5) to assess the uptake to biota and the use of these biota by humans for the estuarine aquat ic environment and at the terrestrial land/marine interface in order to assess, at a basic level, the impact of contamination levels on man and the environment. The Institute of Oceanography in Hamburg is, together with the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg (AARI), responsible for the numerical simulation of transport of dissolved and particulate contaminants in the Kara Sea and the Yenisei Estuary.
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Origins: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Ästuar ? Hamburg ? Baumstamm ? Fluss ? Norwegen ? Schwermetall ? Russland ? Containment ? Kataster ? Meereskunde ? Radionuklid ? Fester Abfall ? Metall ? Arktis ? Abfalllager ? Copernicus ? Bewässerung ? Einzugsgebiet ? Kerntechnischer Unfall ? Mensch ? Radioaktiver Stoff ? Simulation ? Studie ? Sediment ? Flussgebiet ? Meeresgewässer ? Küstenregion ? Verbreitungsgebiet ? Bodenschadstoff ? Modellierung ? Menschliche Gesundheit ? Antarktisforschung ? Nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung ? Gezeiten ? Fläche ? Forschung ? Lagerung ? Forschungseinrichtung ? Maßnahme ? Gesundheit ? Gewässer ? Ozeanographie ? Schadstoff ? Verkehr ? Partikel ? Sedimenttransport ? Oder [Fluss] ? Flüssiger Stoff ?
Region: Hamburg
Bounding boxes: 9.81368° .. 9.81368° x 54.12596° .. 54.12596°
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Englisch/English
Time ranges: 2000-01-01 - 2002-12-31
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