The work at Lancaster has involved setting up PCB air monitoring stations at various sites in the UK and the southern hemisphere. A global soil inventory of PCB levels will also be undertaken. Meerskunde, the University of Crete and the Spanish Research Council will be working on various other parts of this project. I work closely with Sandra Meijer on work into the global fate of pollutants. These samplers consists of a thin-walled polyethylene membrane containing a thin film of the synthetic lipid triolein.
POPs permeate through the membrane and are absorbed by and therefore concentrate in the lipid.
These samplers have advantages over conventional active air sampling techniques in that they are cheap, are easy to deploy, can give time integrated samples and do not require electricity.