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Direction of Scientific Research:
Development of methodology for monitoring, assessment, prediction and prevention of risks associated with the high level toxic polluting substances transfer via biological pathways. These substances can accumulate in the food chain and spread in Arctic ecosystems.
The Aim of the Project:
- The decline in economic and demographic consequences of health disorders of the population living in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, as a result of the uncontrolled transfer of highly toxic polluting chemicals to the environment (hazardous contaminants).
- Improving the efficiency of chemical safety of the population.
- Development of national and regional systems of biological monitoring, forecasting and managing the risks associated with uncontrolled spread of dangerous contaminants by migratory species of birds, fish and wild animals to the Arctic. (biological pathways).
Objectives of the Project:
- Socio-economic risk assessment of health disorders within a population and the demographic implications as a result of getting dangerous pollutants into the human body. They can accumulate in food chains and spread by migratory species of birds, fish and wild animals
- Assessment to the impact of projected climate change on the increase of cross-border transfers on hazardous pollutants entering to the high latitudes through biological pathways.
- Development of methodology for early detection, monitoring and countering threats related to cross-border transfer of hazardous contaminants to the Arctic through biological pathways.
- Development of a model for assessment and prediction to the human body on the risks of harmful effects associated with the transfer and distribution of hazardous contaminants through biological pathways.
- Identification, analysis and description of the main risk factors for the health of the population and development of methodical recommendations for their reduction in the extraction, processing and sale of food products from migratory commercial fish species, birds and wild animals.
- Development of the basic requirements for the creation of international and national information system for early detection, monitoring and risk assessment on cross-border transfer and distribution of hazardous contaminants through biological pathways
- Policy development informing public authorities and local governments, as well as the population living in the Arctic zone of Russian Federation on risk management in the sphere of chemical safety
News
NArFU Hosted Roundtable on Migratory Birds as Sources of Pollutants and Pathogens Transfer to the Arctic
Today, October 12, NArFU Arctic Biomonitoring Laboratory hosted a roundtable that discussed the “Monitoring of Risks Associated with Transfer of Pollutants and Pathogens to the Arctic by Migratory Birds”. Attended by leading experts and early career scientists based in Russia, the roundtable was held within the framework of the III International Conference “Biomonitoring in the Arctic — 2022”.
An employee of the Arctic Biomonitoring Laboratory won a grant "Young Scientists of Pomorie"
Research assistant of the Arctic Biomonitoring Laboratory, PhD student of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology and Genomics of Hydrobionts at the Institute for Comprehensive Research of the Arctic of the Federal Research Center for Comprehensive Research of the Arctic Dmitry Kotsur won a grant "Young Scientists of Pomorie" with the project "Research of the impact of polychlorinated biphenyls on the reproductive system of fish Danio rerio".
NArFU researchers delivered a series of lectures to students of the University of Oxford
Last week, upon the invitation from the University of Oxford, the researchers at NArFU contributed to Oxford University Polar Forum, whose recent series of seminars was devoted to the Russian Arctic.