Details of Hazardous substances in the sediments and their pathways from potential sources in the eastern Gulf of Finland
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Title of dataset | Hazardous substances in the sediments and their pathways from potential sources in the eastern Gulf of Finland |
Narrative summary of dataset | Contamination by hazardous substances is one of the main environmental problems in the eastern Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea. A trilateral effort to sample and analyse heavy metals (HMs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and organotins from bottom sediments in 2019–2020 were conducted along with harvesting historical data in Russian, Estonian and Finnish waters. We suggest that the input of organotins still occurs along the ship traffic routes. The tributyltin content exceeded the established quality criteria up to more than 300 times. High contamination by PAHs found near the ports, most likely originate from incomplete fuel incineration processes. The Neva River Estuary and Luga Bay might potentially suffer from severe cadmium contamination. The high ecological risk attributed to the HMs was detected at deep offshore areas. The simulated accumulation pattern qualitatively agrees with field observations of HMs in sediments, demonstrating the potential of numerical tools to tackle the hazardous substances problems. |
Start date | 2019-01-01 |
End date | 2020-12-31 |
Responsible organisations
Country | Estonia |
Organisation name | Department of Marine Systems at Tallinn University of Technology |
Role of organisation | Originator of Dataset |
Dataset availability
Original dataset download link | https://cloud.emodnet-ingestion.eu/index.php/s/2I1gv6Owgar5THD |
Dataset format | Database |
Public access | No limitations |
License for use | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Type | Dataset |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112642 |
Locations
Map | © OpenStreetMap contributors |
Latitude north boundary | 60.599522717512 |
Longitude east boundary | 29.576153118023 |
Latitude south boundary | 59.110155501324 |
Longitude west boundary | 22.511944133648 |
Sea area | Gulf of Finland |
Data types, collection and processing
Observation type | Sediment properties |
Pollution | |
Parameter | Metal concentrations in sediment |
Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediment samples | |
Concentration of polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) in sediment samples |
Process information
Submitting organisation | Department of Marine Systems at Tallinn University of Technology |
Submission identifier (UUID) | 47f5c3f6-ad72-4278-b736-6022e2b397d0 |
Date of dataset creation | 2020-12-31 |
Date of metadata creation | 2023-04-04 |
Date of metadata latest revision | 2023-04-10 |
Date of publishing | 2023-04-26 |
Processing data centre | Department of Marine Systems at Tallinn University of Technology |
Summary record-ID | 1316 |