Professor Roland Kallenborn Highlights Local Arctic Pollutants in AMAP Webinar
A new AMAP webinar series is shedding light on the impact of local pollutants in the Arctic, with Professor Roland Kallenborn contributing key insights
Professor Roland Kallenborn, UArctic Chair in Arctic Environmental Pollution Research and professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, recently contributed to the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) webinar series on Local Arctic Pollutants.
The webinar is part of AMAP’s broader initiative to assess the state of local organic pollutants across the Arctic. This effort brings together around 35 scientists and has resulted in a Special Issue on “Local Organic Pollutants in the Arctic,” published in the RSC journal Environmental Sciences: Advances. The issue features eight review articles and three case studies, with the first publications already available online.
Professor Kallenborn serves as one of the guest editors of the Special Issue and is the lead author of the forthcoming article “Industrial and public infrastructure as local sources of organic contaminants in the Arctic,” which is currently under revision.
As part of the ongoing outreach, AMAP has launched a webinar series to disseminate knowledge on this pressing environmental issue. In Webinar #2, Professor Kallenborn and Dr. Pernilla M. Carlsson Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) gave presentations addressing local vs. long-range transport of POPs and CEACs to the Arctic. The webinar can be found online here.
Roland Kallenborn is an active researcher in Arctic pollutants and within UArctic, he serves as UArctic Chair and is also the leader of the Thematic Network of Sustainable Strategies for Waste Removal and Restoration of Arctic Mine Waste Areas (RAMWA).