This data explorer app is a product of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research through its

• Action Group on Input Pathways of persistent organic pollutants to AntarCTica (ImPACT) and
• Expert Group on Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics, and supported by
• the Integrated Digital East Antarctic program at the Australian Antarctic Division.

The ImPACT Action Group aims to facilitate coordinated investigation of chemical input to the Antarctic region. This is a policy-driven Action Group which serves both the Global Monitoring Plan of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), as well as the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (the Madrid Protocol), which explicitly prohibits the importation of chemicals of known risk to Antarctica.