Wang, Xiaoping
professor
Environmental science
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research
China
Biography
The presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in remote areas such as the Tibetan Plateau has resulted in considerable interest in their global transport and accumulation behavior. My work aims at the fractionation and cold condensation for POPs, which prone to preferential deposition and accumulation in cold areas. Chemicals become fractionated altitudinally based on their temperature-controlled atmosphere-surface partitioning characteristics. We are presently detecting the POPs concentrations in different matrix of Tibetan Plateau (soil, plant, ice, and snow, lake water) to map the spatial distribution of persistent contaminants across plateau. I am further using passive air samples, deploying polyurethane foam disks to obtain the geographical pattern of all compounds. The ability of certain POPs to undergo long range atmospheric transport (LRAT) has resulted in the global transport and distribution. Another aim of our research is to investigate the possible sources of certain POPs in Tibetan Plateau.
Research Interest
Contamination by persistent organic pollutants in the Tibetan Plateau
Publications
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Wang Xiao-ping, Tan-dong Yao, Peng-ling Wang, Wei-Yang, Li-de Tian The recent deposition of persistent organic pollutants and mercury to the Dasuopu glacier, Mt. Xixiabangma, central Himalayas Science of the Total Environment 2008，394 (1)：134-143
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Wang Xiao-ping, Bai-qing Xu, Shi-chang Kang, Zhi-yuan Cong, Tan-dong Yao The historical residue trend of DDT, hexachlorocyclohexanes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ice core from Mt. Qomolangma (Everest), central Himalayas Atmospheric Environment
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Wang Xiao-ping, Ping Gong, Qianggong Zhang, Tan-dong Yao Impacts of Climate Fluctuations on Deposition of Organochlorine Pesticides: Evidence from ice core records Environmental Pollution
