The installation of the radon monitor supports the Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Program: Monitoring studies data collection and analysis plan by the WA Department of Water and Environmental Regulation.
ANSTO is collaborating with Curtin University to protect the site, home to what is believed to be the largest collection of petroglyphs in the world
ANSTO’s radon measurements support a number of the objectives in the monitoring program including improved distinction between sources of the atmospheric pollutants present in industrial emissions, such as port, shipping, local industry and remote industry and natural emissions from marine aerosols, and emissions from bushfires on Murujuga, which are capable of causing degradation of, or change in, the petroglyphs.
