Not exact matches
Fisherfolk also hope to
measure levels of
PAHs in the seafood they were unable to sell so they can claim compensation from BP.
They
measured the amount of benzo [a] pyrene bound to DNA — a biological marker for
PAHs — in the mothers» blood at the time of birth.
Together with Professor Philipp Mayer, who is presently employed at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), she has developed a new test setup that allows exposing the ciliates to a concentration gradient while concurrently enabling their observation through a microscope in real time and
measuring the transport of
PAH by means of chromatographic methods.
However, when they compared the models to the amount of
PAH that is actually
measured in the environment, the numbers didn't add up.
The team found the predictions with the new shielded model of
PAHs came in at the same value that Simonich
measured on the mountain - four times higher than the previous model, which was considerably off the mark.