PROJECT NAME: A new methodological approach for identification of industrial pollution: Isotope fingerprinting and bacterial community changes (ISOFIN)
PROJECT NUMBER: 7F14330
PROJECT SCHEDULE: 1/8/2014 – 30/4/2017
PROJECT BUDGET: 17174000 CZK (624500 EUR)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Michael Komárek
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Department of Environmental Geosciences
komarek@fzp.czu.cz
PROJECT PARTNERS:
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (Project Promoter)
Bioforsk (now NIBIO) (http://www.bioforsk.no/ikbViewer/page/en/about, http://www.nibio.no/en)
Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) (https://www.ngu.no/en/node)
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NIBIO (formerly BIOFORSK) |
Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) |
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Michael Komárek |
Lars Ola Nilsson Co-Investigator Microbial Ecology |
Henning Jensen Co-Investigator Geochemistry |
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Vladislav Chrastný |
Paul Eric Aspholm Team Member Ecology |
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Jana Kocourková |
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Hana Šillerová |
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Martina Vítková |
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| Anna Kunčíková Team Member, PhD student |
PROJECT FRAMEWORK AND AIMS:
The project proposes a new powerful methodology based on metal isotope fingerprinting using various environmental samples, such as snow samples, lichens and mosses, soil profiles and peat cores and various isotope systems (Ni, Cd, Pb, Cu, Cr). The presented project will develop a methodology for sample preparation, pretreatment and analyses. The project will focus on two polluted areas in Norway and the Czech Republic, more precisely the Barents region (Norwegian-Finnish-Russian border with several smelters and metal processing industries) and in the Upper Silesian region (Czech-Polish border with an intensive metal and coal processing industry). The time- and area-dependent evolution of the pollution will be assessed using the analyses of various isotope systems. In addition, new methods using soil microbial communities as indicators of metal pollution will be used. This compact approach enables, for the first time, identifying and quantifying separate pollution and natural sources and when coupled to concentration and mineralogical data, it becomes a powerful tool for environmental analysis, monitoring, risk assessment and subsequently for decision-making.
PROJECT OUTPUTS:
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Norwegian Day at FES
- Chrastný V., Čadková E., Vaněk A., Teper L., Cabala J., Komárek M., 2015. Cadmium isotope fractionation within the soil profile complicates source identification in relation to Pb-Zn mining and smelting processes. Chemical Geology 405, 1-9.
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Francová, A., Chrastný, V., Šillerová, H., Vítková, M., Kocourková, J., Komárek, M., 2017. Evaluating the suitability of different environmental samples for tracing atmospheric pollution in industrial areas. Environmental Pollution 220, Part A, 286-297.
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Kelepertzis E., Komárek M., Argyraki A., Šillerová H., 2016. Metal(loid) distribution and Pb isotopic signatures in the urban environment of Athens, Greece. Environmental Pollution 213, 420-431.
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Vítková M., Šillerová H., Kunčíková A., Komárek M., Nilsson L.-O., 2016. Identification of metal distribution in smelter-affected area of Finnmark using various environmental indicators. In: Energy and clean technologies conference proceedings, SGEM 2016, Vol. II, pp. 397-402.
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Vítková M., Bokotejová M., Komárek M., 2016. Sample treatment methods for identification of metal-rich particles in soils and lichens. In: Energy and clean technologies conference proceedings, SGEM 2016, Vol. III, pp. 181-186.
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