Mecury in the Environment

USGS provides information on mercury sources, cycling, bioaccumulation and toxicity to assist land and resource managers reduce mercury hazards to people and the environment.
Background

USGS Fact Sheets on Mercury in the Environment

Information on worldwide supply & demand and flow of mercury

Mercury in U.S. Coal

Featured Activities

KQED's Mercury in the Bay - Part 1, interviews USGS scientist Mark Marvin-DiPasquale

Mercury and organic carbon dynamics during runnoff episodes from a Northeastern USA watershed

USGS Science Activities

National Mercury Studies

Research on Mercury Cycling in Aquatic Ecosystems

Mercury Related to Mining and Natural Geologic Sources

Mercury Bioaccumulation

Mercury Atmospheric Deposition

Mercury Studies in Geographic Areas

Measuring Mercury in the Environment

USGS Mercury Project Inventory (2001)

Meetings and Discussion Groups

Environmental Fate and Transformation of Mercury session at November 2008 SETAC Annual Meeting

Atmospheric mercury session, Fall 2008 NADP meeting

9th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (2009)

Fall 2007 American Geophysical Union; Mercury Biogeochemistry in Wetlands
     Session I
     Session II
     Session III

2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Mercury Pollution session

Mercury Roundtable (A USGS and EPA mercury science and policy discussion forum)

International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant - Aug 6-11, 2006 - The largest conference on mercury ever convened and co-hosted by USGS

2004 USGS Mercury Workshop

2001 Workshop on the Fate, Transport, and Transformation of Mercury in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments

Proceedings of South Florida Restoration Science Forum, May 17-19, 1999

Workshop on Mercury Cycling 1996

Other Links

USEPA Fish Advisories

USEPA Mercury Page

Air Toxics Monitoring Programs

Mercury ToxFAQs™: Chemical Agent Briefing Sheets (ATSDR)

Dynamic Mercury Cycling Model (EPPRI)

Calfed Mercury Program

NESCAUM Mercury Emission Control Studies

South Florida Mercury Science Program


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