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Research coordinator, Akvaplan-niva

Institute

Akvaplan-niva AS
Polar Environmental Centre
N-9296 Tromsø
Norway

(+47) 77 75 03 00
(+47) 77 75 03 01
ae@akvaplan.niva.no

Research Interests

Bioaccumulation and biomagnifications of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Arctic food chain.
Effects on POPs on Arctic animals and ecosystems.
Long-range transport of new contaminants.
Effects of climate changes on contaminant dynamics in Arctic ecosystems.

Projects

Completed national and international research projects

Guano: a carrier medium for persistent organic pollutants (POPs)?
A Mass Balance Model to assess pathways for high concentrations of POPs in the aquatic food chain of Lake Ellasjøen, Bear Island, Norway.
New contaminants in lakes on Bjørnøya.
Mercury in Arctic regions. Atmospheric deposition and biomagnification in food chains.
PCB in local settlements on Svalbard: A threat to marine food webs?

Running national and international research projects

COPOL – Contaminants in Polar Regions
ECOBAR - Benthic Indicators for Monitoring the Ecosystem of the BARents Sea.
NARE – Biomagnification of POPs in Antarctic food chains.

Relevant positions, boards, committees

CV

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Relevant publications

1. Warner, N.A., A. Evenset, G. Christensen, G.W. Gabrielsen, K. Borgå & H. Leknes (submitted). Volatile Siloxanes in the European Arctic: Assessment of Sources and Spatial Distribution. Environmental Science & Technology
2. Hallanger, I., A. Ruus, D. Herzke, N.A. Warner, A. Evenset, E.S. Heimstad, G.W. Gabrielsen & K. Borgå (submitted). Influence of season, location, and feeding strategy on bioaccumulation of halogenated organic contaminants (HOCs) in Arctic marine zooplankton. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
3. Renaud, P.E., M. Tessmann, A. Evenset & G.N. Christensen. 2010. Benthic food-web structure of an Arctic fjord (Kongsfjord, Svalbard). Marine Biology Research.
4. Gewurtz, S.B., N. Gandhi, G.N. Christensen, A. Evenset, D. Gregor & M.L. Diamond. 2008. Use of a food web model to evaluate the factors responsible for high PCB fish concentrations in Lake Ellasjøen, a high Arctic Lake. Environ. Sci. Poll. Res. 16: 176-190.
5. Kallenborn, R., M. Schlabach, A. Srohl, G.N. Christensen & A. Evenset. 2007. Atmospheric transport of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to Bjørnøya (Bear Island). J. Environ. Mon. 9: 1082-1091.
6. Evenset A, Carroll J, Christensen GN, Kallenborn R, Gregor D, Gabrielsen GW (2007) Seabird guano is an efficient conveyer of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to Arctic lake ecosystems. Environmental Science and Technology 41(4): 1173-1179
7. Evenset A, Christensen GN, Carroll J, Zaborska A, Berger U, Herzke D, Gregor D (2007) Historical trends in persistent organic pollutants and metals recorded in sediment from Lake Ellasjøen, Bjørnøya, Norwegian Arctic. Environmental Pollution 146(1): 196-205
8. Gandhi N, Bhavsar SP, Gewurtz SB, Diamond ML, Evenset A, Christensen GC & Gregor D (2006) Development of a multi-chemical food chain model: application to PBDE in lake Ellasjøen, Bear Island, Norway. Environmental Science and Technology 41(4): 196-205
9. Gewurtz SB, Gandhi N, Christensen GC, Evenset A, Gregor D & Diamond ML (2006) Application of a food web model to determine the relative influence of nutrients and contaminant loadings on contaminant dynamics in a high Arctic food web. Chemosphere 63(8): 1328-1341
10. Evenset A, Christensen GN & Kallenborn R (2005) Selected chlorobornanes, polychlorinated naphthalenes and brominated flame retardants in Bjørnøya (Bear Island) freshwater biota. Environmental Pollution 136: 419-430
11. Evenset A, Christensen GN, Skotvold T, Fjeld E, Schlabach M, Wartena E & Gregor D (2004) A comparison of organic contaminants in two high Arctic lake ecosystems, Bjørnøya (Bear Island), Norway. Science of the Total Environment 318(1-3): 125-141
12. Herzke, D., Gabrielsen, G.W., Evenset, A., Burkow, I.C., 2003. Polychlorinated camphenes (toxaphenes), polybrominated diphenylethers and other halogenated organic pollutants in glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus) from Svalbard and Bjornoya (Bear Island). Environmental Pollution 121, 293-300.
13. Dahle, S., Savinov, V., Matishov, G., Evenset, A., & K. Næs. 2002. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in bottom sediments of the Kara Sea shelf, Gulf of Ob and Yenisei Bay. Science of the Total Environment, 306: 57-73