Temporal Trends of Contaminants in Arctic Seabird Eggs

In order to continue the contaminants monitoring of the marine environment using seabird eggs started in 1975, and to continue the evaluation of annual variation in the temporal trend data series, we have been collecting eggs for contaminant analyses from each of two species of seabirds (northern fulmar, thick-billed murre) from Prince Leopold Island annually since 2005. For comparative purposes, we have also been making annual collections of thick-billed murre eggs from Coats Island in northern Hudson Bay (our Low Arctic monitoring colony since 1993) in parallel with the High Arctic collections.