Browsing NILU Brage by Author "Nipen, Maja"

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    • Chlorinated paraffins and dechloranes in free-range chicken eggs and soil around waste disposal sites in Tanzania 

      Haarr, Ane; Nipen, Maja; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, Anders; Mmochi, Aviti J.; Borgå, Katrine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Electronic waste is a source of both legacy and emerging flame retardants to the environment, especially in regions where sufficient waste handling systems are lacking. In the present study, we quantified the occurrence ...

    • Chlorinated paraffins and dechloranes in free-range chicken eggs and soil around waste disposal sites in Tanzania 

      Haarr, Ane; Nipen, Maja; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, Anders; Mmochi, Aviti J.; Borgå, Katrine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Electronic waste is a source of both legacy and emerging flame retardants to the environment, especially in regions where sufficient waste handling systems are lacking. In the present study, we quantified the occurrence ...

    • Cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes in the terrestrial and aquatic environment at remote Arctic sites 

      Nipen, Maja; Hartz, William Frederik; Schulze, Dorothea; Christensen, Guttorm; Løge, Oda Siebke; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla (NILU report;3/2025, Research report, 2025)
      Cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes (cVMS) are widely used chemicals with high emissions to the atmosphere due to their volatility. They are found in the Arctic atmosphere, indicating potential for long-range transport. This ...

    • Environmental pollutants in the terrestrial and urban environment 2021. Revised report. 

      Heimstad, Eldbjørg Sofie; Moe, Børge; Herzke, Dorte; Borgen, Anders Røsrud; Enge, Ellen Katrin; Nordang, Unni Mette; Bæk, Kine; Nipen, Maja; Linda, Hanssen (NILU report;1/2023, Research report, 2023)
      Samples from the urban terrestrial environment in the Oslo area were analysed for metals and a large number of organic environmental pollutants. The selected samples that were analysed were soil, earthworm, fieldfare egg ...

    • Environmental pollutants in the terrestrial and urban environment 2022 

      Heimstad, Eldbjørg Sofie; Moe, Børge; Borgen, Anders; Enge, Ellen Katrin; Nordang, Unni Mette; Bæk, Kine; Nipen, Maja; Harju, Mikael; Hanssen, Linda (NILU report;23/2023, Research report, 2023)
      Samples of soil, earthworm, fieldfare egg, brown rat liver, spanish slug, house dust and cat liver from the urban terrestrial environment in the Oslo area were analysed for several different groups of environmental pollutants. ...

    • Homologue group profiles of ΣPCAs C14-17 in environmental samples from Norwegian monitoring programmes 

      Nipen, Maja; Borgen, Anders (NILU report;9/2024, Research report, 2024)
      Recently, chlorinated paraffins with carbon chain lengths in the range C14–17 and chlorination levels at or exceeding 45 per cent chlorine by weight have been proposed for listing under the Stockholm Convention. To aid the ...

    • Increasing Trends of Legacy and Emerging Organic Contaminants in a Dated Sediment Core From East-Africa 

      Nipen, Maja; Vogt, Rolf David; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, Anders; Schlabach, Martin; Christensen, Guttorm N; Mmochi, Aviti John; Breivik, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Temporal trends of industrial organic contaminants can show how environmental burdens respond to changes in production, regulation, and other anthropogenic and environmental factors. Numerous studies have documented such ...

    • Investigating snow deposition of cyclic siloxanes in an Arctic environment 

      Nipen, Maja; Hartz, William Frederik; Bäcklund, Are; Schulze, Dorothea; Christensen, Guttorm; Løge, Oda Siebke; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla (NILU report;35/2024, Research report, 2024)
      cVMS are high production volume chemicals that are used for a wide range of industrial and domestic applications. Given the high volatility of cVMS, emissions occur mainly to the atmosphere, and cVMS are present in the ...

    • Målinger av miljøgifter i luft ved Franzefoss Eide på Sotra og Husøya ved Kristiansund 

      Berglen, Tore Flatlandsmo; Vik, Aasmund Fahre; Mortensen, Tore; Andresen, Erik; Bæk, Kine; Davanger, Kirsten; Enge, Ellen Katrin; Gundersen, Hans; Hanssen, Linda; Harju, Mikael; Nipen, Maja; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Röhler, Laura; Schmidbauer, Norbert; Skaar, Jøran Solnes (NILU rapport;26/2022, Research report, 2022)
      NILU har gjennomført måleprogram for konsentrasjoner i luft ved Franzefoss Gjenvinning AS sine anlegg ved Eide på Sotra og ved Husøya ved Kristiansund. Ved Eide ble det tatt prøver i luft og analysert for prioriterte ...

    • Mercury in air and soil on an urban-rural transect in East Africa 

      Nipen, Maja; Jørgensen, Susanne Jøntvedt; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Breivik, Knut; Mmochi, Aviti J; Mwakalapa, Eliezer; Quant, M. Isabel; Schlabach, Martin; Vogt, Rolf David; Wania, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      There are large knowledge gaps concerning concentrations, sources, emissions, and spatial trends of mercury (Hg) in the atmosphere in developing regions of the Southern Hemisphere, particularly in urban areas. Filling these ...

    • Monitoring of environmental contaminants in air and precipitation. Annual report 2022. 

      Halvorsen, Helene Lunder; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Nipen, Maja; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Berglen, Tore Flatlandsmo; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Hartz, William Frederik (NILU report;18/2023, Research report, 2023)
      This report presents air monitoring data from 2022 for the Norwegian monitoring programme "Atmospheric contaminants". The results cover 260 organic compounds (regulated and non-regulated) and 16 compound groups, 14 heavy ...

    • Monitoring of environmental contaminants in air and precipitation. Annual report 2023 

      Halvorsen, Helene Lunder; Pfaffhuber, Katrine Aspmo; Nipen, Maja; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Berglen, Tore Flatlandsmo; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Hartz, William Frederik (NILU report;18/2024, Research report, 2024)
      This report presents air monitoring data from 2023 for the Norwegian monitoring programme "Atmospheric contaminants". The results covers 16 groups comprising of 260 organic compounds (regulated and non-regulated) as well ...

    • Spatial trends of chlorinated paraffins and dechloranes in air and soil in a tropical urban, suburban, and rural environment 

      Nipen, Maja; Vogt, Rolf David; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Borgå, Katrine; Mwakalapa, Eliezer Brown; Borgen, anders Røsrud; Jørgensen, Susanne Jøntvedt; Ntapanta, Samwel Moses; Mmochi, Aviti John; Schlabach, Martin; Breivik, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      There are large knowledge gaps concerning environmental levels and fate of many organic pollutants, particularly for chemicals of emerging concern in tropical regions of the Global South. In this study, we investigated the ...

    • Towards a harmonized approach for atmospheric monitoring of chemicals of emerging concern (CECs). Workshop 8-10 November 2023. NILU, Kjeller, Norway 

      Aas, Wenche; Davie-Martin, Cleo Lisa; Halvorsen, Helene Lunder; Herzke, Dorte; Hartz, William Frederik; Hung, Hayley; Mayer, Ludovic; Nerentorp, Michelle; Nipen, Maja; Rüdiger, Julian; Tinel, Liselotte; Vorkamp, Katrin (EMEP/CCC-Report;5/2024, Research report, 2024)
      This report summaries the outcome of a workshop focused on standardizing monitoring strategies for Chemicals of Emerging Concern (CECs), including PFAS, flame retardants, chlorinated paraffins, siloxanes, and microplastics. ...