Magnetic biomonitoring of airborne metallic particles using lichen transplants on cultural heritage – The Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon, Portugal. Preliminary Results

Magnetic biomonitoring employing lichens transplants is a non-invasive and low-cost method to evaluate airborne particulate matter (PM) pollution originated from urban traffic. This study was designed to assess the indoor deposition of traffic-related PM within the 16th-century Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, employing lichen transplants exposed during two distinct periods of 11weeks each. Data includes the low field magnetic susceptibility values for all the lichen transplants, exposed during summer 2024. This publication results from work conducted under the transnational access/national open access action at Paleomagnetic Laboratory of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in Rome supported by WP3 ILGE - MEET project, PNRR - EU Next Generation Europe program, MUR grant number D53C22001400005.

Deployment of lichen transplants in different places, inside monastery and outside in the street. Measurement of magnetic properties as magnetic susceptibility, isothermal remanent magnetization, hysteresis analysis and FORC analysis

Lichens collected in a low contamination environment and transplanted to different places inside the indicated spatial coverage during a 11-week period. Magnetic measurements were performed before and after the exposure. Exposure to unexposed ratio were determined.