[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: "McMurdo [Antarctica] enviornmental monitoring project finds small signs of recovery"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Containing contamination
McMurdo enviornmental monitoring project finds small signs of recovery

By Peter Rejcek
Antarctic Sun
May 10, 2013
Time is ever so slowly eating away at the bad habits of the past.

A decade-long environmental monitoring program at McMurdo Station  is  
showing that contamination around the facility and the nearby marine  
ecosystem is holding steady or slightly decreasing.

“The terrestrial environment is really fairly clean,” noted Andrew  
Klein , an associate professor at Texas A&M University , which has  
participated in the study every year since 2003 after a three-year  
pilot project that began in 1999 to establish the monitoring protocols.

...

The latest report card is looking pretty good, especially for the  
nearby marine environment that was polluted during the early decades  
of the USAP after the U.S. Navy  established McMurdo Station in the  
mid-1950s.

...

For the entire article, see
http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2847


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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