Examples of Master Theses at NILU

• The environmental occurrence, fate, and behavior of airborne organic contaminants of emerging concern in Norwegian terrestrial ecosystems (2023)

• Determination of volatile emissions from indoor wood surfaces (2023)

• Is a warmer Arctic a more contaminated Arctic? Atlantification of Kongsfjorden in relation to contaminant levels in seabirds (2022)

• Ingestion and egestion of microplastic fibers in the green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis: An experimental exposure (2021)

• Perfluoroalkyl substances are positively correlated with triiodothyronine concentrations, but not metabolic rate in breeding arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea) (2021)

• Fluorinated compounds, including a novel oxidizable fraction in blood of Norwegian women and their predictors – the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (2021)

• Plastic occurrence in six different species of Arctic seabirds – Harmonizing methods and closing knowledge gaps on plastic occurrence and polymer identity (2021)

• Let it glow! Adapting a method to detect microplastics in snow and evaluate the potential for long-range transport (2020)

• Use of digestive gland explant cultures from blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) to assess biomarker effects of single and co-exposure of environmental contaminants (2020)

• Avløp og oppdrettsanlegg som mulige forurensningskilder til mikroplast i blåskjell (Mytilus edulis) (2019)

• Adsorption of Organic Pollutants in Microplastic in the Arctic Ocean (2019)

• Geographic variation of human dietary intake of PCBs from Norwegian coastal fish species and potential health risks of consumption (2019)

• Development of an optimized gas chromatography / triple quadrupole mass spectrometry method for the quantitative determination of nitro- and oxygen containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (N-/ O-PAHs) in atmospheric samples (2018)

• Do levels of per- and polyfluorinated alkylated substances (PFASs) in snow bunting eggs increase with proximity to airports in Svalbard? (2017)

• Plastic ingestion by northern fulmars (fulmarus glacialis) and plastic-related contaminants