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USGS provides information on mercury sources; mercury cycling in the atmosphere, land surface, lakes, streams and oceans; and bioaccumulation and toxicity of mercury. This information helps land and resource managers understand and reduce mercury hazards to people and wildlife.

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Background

USGS Fact Sheets on Mercury in the Environment

Worldwide supply & demand and flow of mercury

Mercury in U.S. Coal

Featured Publications

Variable Contributions of Mercury from Groundwater to a First-Order Urban Coastal Plain Stream in New Jersey, USA (published online, 21 March 2013)

Mineral commodity summaries 2013 (approved for publication 24 January 2013)

Influence of dietary carbon on mercury bioaccumulation in streams of the Adirondack Mountains of New York and the Coastal Plain of South Carolina, USA (26 October 2012)

Intra- and inter-basin mercury comparisons: Importance of basin scale and time-weighted methylmercury estimates (17 September 2012)

Specific ultra-violet absorbance as an indicator of mercury sources in an Adirondack River basin (9 August 2012)

Shallow groundwater mercury supply in a Coastal Plain stream (26 June 2012)

Dissolved organic matter reduces algal accumulation of methylmercury (19 June 2012)

Mercury exposure may suppress baseline corticosterone levels in juvenile birds (5 June 2012)

Trophic Transfer Efficiency of Methylmercury and Inorganic Mercury to Lake Trout Salvelinus namaycush from Its Prey (03 May 2012)

MERGANSER: An Empirical Model To Predict Fish and Loon Mercury in New England Lakes (17 April 2012)

Mercury dynamics in a San Francisco Estuary tidal wetland: assessing dynamics using in situ measurements (3 April 2012)

Hydrology and methylmercury availability in Coastal Plain streams (21 March 2012)

Landscape controls on total and methyl Hg in the upper Hudson River basin, New York, USA (20 March 2012)

The role of terrestrial vegetation in atmospheric Hg deposition: Pools and fluxes of spike and ambient Hg from the METAALICUS experiment (13 March 2012)

USGS Science Activities

National Mercury Studies

Mercury Studies in Your State

Research on Mercury Cycling in Aquatic Ecosystems

Mercury Bioaccumulation and Toxicity

Mercury Atmospheric Deposition

Measuring Mercury in the Environment

USGS scientists who study mercury

Meetings and Conferences *

11th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 28-August 2, 2013. See Important Dates link for session and abstract due dates.

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