Constarium
← Search

Data · collection

Metal concentration in macroalgae from East Antarctica

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

Marine macroalgae have been widely used as biomonitors of metal pollution.

Description

At Casey Station in East Antarctica, the Thala Valley tip is in the path of a melt stream that forms each summer and flows directly into Brown Bay carrying with it contaminated particles. Despite the tip no longer being used, this mechanism continues to carry contaminants, principally heavy metals (Cu, Cd, Pb and Zn) and hydrocarbons, into the bay causing impacts on the marine benthos.

Links

Topics

Inferred from text
Pollution and contamination 72%
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
SourceKeyLast seenRaw
NASA Earthdata CMRC1214598785-SCIOPS14 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4105enrichment · NASA CMRtaxonomy-embedding@1.1.0title+keywords+description (72%)
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:icp-mssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/plants/microalgaesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:fixed-observation-stationssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0