airborne contaminants klondike gold rush nhp, glacier bay np&p, sitka nhp
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Airborne Contaminants Klondike Gold Rush NHP, Glacier Bay NP&P, Sitka NHP. Skagway Harbor & cruise s hip h aze. Glacier Bay and Chichagof Island: dust and smoke from fires in Eurasia . Airborne Contaminants. Justification. Affects Ecosystems & Visitor Experience. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Airborne ContaminantsKlondike Gold Rush NHP, Glacier Bay NP&P, Sitka NHP
Glacier Bay and Chichagof Island:dust and smoke from fires in Eurasia
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program 3 Year Review – March 2012
Skagway Harbor & cruise ship haze
JustificationAirborne Contaminants
• Affects Ecosystems & Visitor Experience
• Partnership with other Agencies and Allows Inferences at a Regional Scale
• Impacts Increasing with Global Industrial Expansion & Population Growth & Possibly Climate Change
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Justification• All SEAN Park are Potential Receptors of:
Airborne Contaminants – Common to all SEAN parks
• Cruise ship emissions and other marine transportation
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Justification• All AK Parks are Potential Targets of:
• Industrial emissions from Eurasia such as smelters, coal fired generators
Airborne Contaminants – Common to all SEAN parks
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program 3 Year Review – March 2012
JustificationAirborne Contaminants - ecosystems and visitor experience
Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Program • Provided reference data
• Provided inspiration and expertise
• Demonstrated contaminant are a potentially serious threat to Alaskan ecosystems, and subsistence resources
• Demonstrated bioaccumulation in fish Landers, D. H. et al. 2008. The fate, transport, and ecological impacts of airborne contaminants in western national parks (USA). EPA/600/R-07/138, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL), Western Ecology Division. Covallis OR., Corvallis, OR.
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Monitoring Objectives
• Determine functional methods for monitoring decadal trends in select airborne contaminants at remote sites;
• Model relationship between contaminant in lichen tissue, atmospheric concentrations, and deposition rates;
• Assess lichen community response to changes in airborne contaminants (and or other factors).
Airborne Contaminants – Protocol development
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Question:Are these currently the most relevant objectives?
Monitoring Approach & Preliminary ResultsAirborne Contaminants
Passive Ambient Atmospheric Samplers
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Gaseous:HNO3, SO2, NO2, NOx, NH4
Monitoring Approach & Preliminary ResultsAirborne Contaminants
Passive Ambient Atmospheric Samplers
Weekly Ambient SO2 Concentrations May-Sept
2008
2009
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Monitoring Approach & Preliminary ResultsAirborne Contaminants
Passive Ambient Atmospheric Samplers
Weekly Ambient NOx Concentrations May-Sept
2009
2008
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Monitoring Approach & Preliminary ResultsAirborne Contaminants
Passive Ambient Atmospheric Samplers
Weekly Ambient NH3 & HNO3 Concentrations
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NH3HNO3
2009 data
Monitoring Approach & Preliminary ResultsAirborne Contaminants
Passive Wet Deposition Samplers
Open Canopy Throughfall
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program 3 Year Review – March 2012
Monitoring Approach & Preliminary ResultsAirborne Contaminants
Passive Wet Deposition Samplers
Open vs Closed Canopy sites
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Monitoring Approach & Preliminary ResultsAirborne Contaminants
Passive Wet Deposition SamplersOpen vs Closed Canopy sites
Juneau NADP Network Site
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Monitoring Approach & Preliminary ResultsAirborne Contaminants
Passive Wet Deposition SamplersOpen
sites
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Monitoring Approach - lichensAirborne Contaminants
• Depend on nutrients from the air and rainfall;
• A dynamic equilibrium exists between atmospheric chemicals
and lichen tissue;• Long history of use as bio
indicators;• Species differentially sensitivity
to pollutants;• Allows a regional picture of air
pollution deposition patterns.Southeast Alaska Network
Inventory and Monitoring Program 3 Year Review – March 2012
Rationale for SelectionAirborne Contaminants
Partnership with the Tongass National Forest Allows Analysis & Inferences at a Regional Scale
S. Baranof
EndicottRiver
Tracy Arm/Fords Terror
Kootznoowoo
Greens Ck
Mt RobertsPleasant Island
Kuiu
Tebenkof
CoronationWarren Karta
River
Stikine-LeContePetersburg Ck
S. Etolin
South Prince of Wales
Misty Fiords
Chuck River
W. ChichagofYakobi
Pacific Ocean
British ColumbiaCanada
Russell Fiords
±
0 10 205 Miles
LegendTongass wilderness
Tongass other
lichen air plots 1989-2005
125 permanent plotsSoutheast Alaska Network
Inventory and Monitoring Program 3 Year Review – March 2012
Monitoring ApproachHow are concentrations of contaminants in the air changing on a
decadal cycle?
• Metrics include elemental concentration for P, K, Ca, Mg, Na, Al, Fe, Mn, Hg, Cu, B, Pb, Ni, Cr, Cd, Co, Mo, Si, Ti, Be, Sr, Rb, Li, V, Ba, total nitrogen and total sulfur.
Airborne Contaminants
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Monitoring Approach & Preliminary Results
Lichen collection plots conducted in KLGO in 1998 were revisited in 2008-09.
Airborne Contaminants – lichen elemental concentrations
How are elemental concentrations in lichen tissue changing?
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Monitoring Approach & Preliminary Results
Lichen collection plots conducted in KLGO in 1998 were revisited in 2008-09.
Airborne Contaminants – lichen elemental concentrations
How are elemental concentrations in lichen tissue changing?
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program 3 Year Review – March 2012
Monitoring Approach & Preliminary ResultsSpatial Comparisons
Airborne Contaminants – lichen elemental concentrations
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program 3 Year Review – March 2012
Airborne Contaminants – Mercury DepositionMonitoring Approach - MercuryEventually map the distribution of Hg deposition for AlaskaNational Mercury Deposition
NetworkGLBA and GAAR
Bartlett Cove - GLBA Bettles - GAAR
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Investigate Regional Variation in Hg Deposition
Airborne Contaminants – Mercury DepositionMonitoring Approach - Mercury
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Monitoring Approach - MercuryMercury add to suite of analytes in 2008-
09.
Airborne Contaminants – lichen elemental concentrations
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Acknowledgments
Linda Geiser - USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research StationMark Fenn - USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research StationAndrjez Bytnerowicz - USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research StationKaren Dillman - Tongass National ForestSarah Jovan - USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research StationRick Graw - USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research StationAlbert Faure - Alaska Dept of Environmental ConservationTamara Blett – National Park Service Air Resource DivisionEllen Porter - National Park Service Air Resource DivisionHeather Root – Oregon State UniversityBrendan Moynahan – National Park Service, Southeast Alaska I&M Program Scott Gende - National Park Service, Southeast Alaska Coastal ClusterLewis Sharman – Glacier Bay NP&PAndrea Blakesley – Denali NP&P
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Dave [email protected]