Anthropogenic uranium signatures in turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles from nuclear sites.

chelonian nuclear fallout plutonium radionuclide uranium

Journal

PNAS nexus
ISSN: 2752-6542
Titre abrégé: PNAS Nexus
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9918367777906676

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Historique:
received: 12 07 2023
accepted: 18 07 2023
medline: 24 8 2023
pubmed: 24 8 2023
entrez: 24 8 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Chelonians (turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles) grow scute keratin in sequential layers over time. Once formed, scute keratin acts as an inert reservoir of environmental information. For chelonians inhabiting areas with legacy or modern nuclear activities, their scute has the potential to act as a time-stamped record of radionuclide contamination in the environment. Here, we measure bulk (i.e. homogenized scute) and sequential samples of chelonian scute from the Republic of the Marshall Islands and throughout the United States of America, including at the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, southwestern Utah, the Savannah River Site, and the Oak Ridge Reservation. We identify legacy uranium (

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad241 PMID: 37614675 PMC: PMC10443656
pubmed: 37614675
doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad241
pii: pgad241
pmc: PMC10443656
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

pgad241

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of National Academy of Sciences.

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Auteurs

Cyler Conrad (C)

Earth Systems Science Division, Risk and Environmental Assessment Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352, USA.
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4659-2884

Jeremy Inglis (J)

Chemistry Division, Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3868-3041

Allison Wende (A)

Chemistry Division, Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

Matthew Sanborn (M)

Chemistry Division, Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3218-1195

Nilesh Mukundan (N)

Chemistry Division, Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8928-4809

Allison Price (A)

Chemistry Division, Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1018-2659

Travis Tenner (T)

Chemistry Division, Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5654-4232

Kimberly Wurth (K)

Chemistry Division, Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

Benjamin Naes (B)

Chemistry Division, Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

Jeanne Fair (J)

Bioscience Division, Genomics and Bioanalytics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3377-6134

Earl Middlebrook (E)

Bioscience Division, Genomics and Bioanalytics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0508-455X

Shannon Gaukler (S)

Environmental Protection and Compliance Division, Environmental Stewardship Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

Jeffrey Whicker (J)

Environmental Protection and Compliance Division, Environmental Stewardship Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

Jamie L Gerard (JL)

Environmental Protection and Compliance Division, Environmental Stewardship Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

Washington Tapia Aguilera (WT)

Galápagos Conservancy, 11150 Fairfax Blvd. #408, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA.
University of Málaga, Campus Teatinos, Apdo 59.29080 Málaga, Spain.

James P Gibbs (JP)

Galápagos Conservancy, 11150 Fairfax Blvd. #408, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA.
College of Environmental Science, State University of New York, 1 Forestry Dr., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.

Blair Wolf (B)

Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5643-7867

Tonie K Kattil-deBrum (TK)

Burke Museum, University of Washington, 4300 15th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4404-1854

Molly Hagemann (M)

Department of Natural Sciences, Vertebrate Zoology, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI 96817, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8475-754X

Jeffrey A Seminoff (JA)

NOAA-Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 8901 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3654-9957

Timothy Brys (T)

Community Engagement and Collections Management, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, TX 75201, USA.

Rafe Brown (R)

Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5338-0658

Katrina M Derieg (KM)

Natural History Museum of Utah, University of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0320-1804

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