Recommended links

We recommend that you use Wikipedia to search for most topics

Arctic links

• UNEP Key Polar Centre and the Arctic
• AMAP- the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme

Links to education within the Arctic theme

• Arctic Theme page - Education
• UNEP: Assessment report on Arctic Persistent Toxic Substances
• Arctic Environmental Atlas
• Arctic maps
• Online Map Creation
• Arctic theme page
• Arctic Council
• WWF Arctic bulletin

Fish biology links

• Gadoid maturity scales (pdf)
• Ageing of fish (pdf)
• Salmonids in the classroom: Salmon dissection
• Classroom Salmon Dissection: Fish anatomy 1 and fish anatomy 2
• Fishbase and Search for species name
• Salmon dissection game
• Salmon: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Cod: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dioxins and POPs links

• What are dioxins? Green facts, Wikpedia and Dioxin Homepage
• AMAP i) Click on: Assessment Results (left margin), Arctic Pollution 2002 ii) Click on: Resources & Projects
• UNEP/GPA - What Are POPs?
• The 12 POPs under the Stockholm Convention
• Arctic Council
• US EPA - Pollutants/Toxic-Dioxins 1 and 2

Transport links

• Pathways of contaminants to the Arctic
• Dominating air currents
• The Link between Persistence and Long-Range Transport. Persistence is the ability of a chemical to stay unchanged in the environment for a long time. Half-life is the time it takes for half of the amount of chemical to be removed from the environment. Long-Range Transport is the potential for a chemical to travel from its point of release to a remote region, typically hundreds of kilometres distant
• Transboundary Arctic Contaminants
• Arctic Pollution: How Much is Too Much?

Some IPY resources and research projects with focus on POPs

• The International Polar Year
• IPY - Opportunities for Teachers and Students
• IPY-Educators
• COPOL: Contaminants in Polar Regions and Miljøgifter i polare marine økosystem
• Bearhealth: Polar Bear Health Assessment in Relation to Toxicants and Climate Change and Kan isbjørnen overleve klimaendringene
• Birdhealth: Health of arctic and antarctic bird populations and Trues ærfugl i nord av miljøgifter og økt spredning av parasitter og virus?
• INCATPA: INterContinental Atmospheric Transport of Anthropogenic Pollutants to the Arctic
• EBESA: Environmental, Biological, and Ecological Studies in Antarctica
• POLARCAT: Polar Study on pollution transport and Hvordan transporteres luftforurensninger inn i Arktis?
• ATMOTROLL: Atmospheric research and monitoring at Troll

Northern Contaminants (credit to Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami)

Short and good overviews on contaminants, bioaccmulation and transport:

• About Contaminants What are they?
• Sources and Pathways
• Contaminants and Wildlife / Humans
• Effects on Human Health