Mercury studies in your state

• Alabama
  • Arsenic and Mercury in Alabama Coal
• Alaska
  • Mercury export from the Yukon River basin and potential response to a changing climate 
  • Metals in the Kuskokwim River, Alaska 
  • see USGS Circular 1248
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
  • Mercury speciation and transport via submarine groundwater discharge at a Southern California coastal lagoon system
  • Biogeochemical Implications of Episodic Impoundment in a Restored Tidal Marsh of San Francisco Bay, California
  • Mercury and other metals in black bass (Micropterus spp.) from Whiskeytown Lake, Shasta County, California, 2005
  • Removal of inorganic mercury and methylmercury from surface waters following coagulation of dissolved organic matter
  • Sediment and mercury mobilization, South Yuba River and Humbug Creek, California. News release with links to reports.
  • Methyl mercury dynamics in a tidal wetland using in situ optical measurements (July 2011)
  • Vibrational, X-ray absorption, and Mössbauer spectra of sulfate minerals from the weathered massive sulfide deposit at Iron Mountain, California
  • Environmental Mercury Studies in California
  • Mercury in the San Francisco Bay--see Contaminant Biology Program
  • Determination of Total Mercury in Fillets of Sport Fishes Collected from Folsom Reservoir, California, 2006
    
  • Determination of Total Mercury in Fillets of Sport Fishes Collected from Folsom and New Melones Reservoirs, California, 2004
  • Mercury in sport fishes, Lake Natoma, Sacramento County, California Data Series 04-103
  • Benthic Mercury Flux - Camp Far West Reservoir, CA WRIR 03-4140
  • Mercury Bioaccumulation in Fish in a Region Affected by Historic Gold Mining OFR 00-367
  • Mercury And Methylmercury Concentration In Sediment Cores And Surface Water From Medicine Lake, California
  • Sacramento / San Joaquin Delta Wetlands -- Mercury and Dissolved Organic Matter
  • South Yuba River--Assessment of Environmental Impacts of Suction Dredging to Treat Mercury
  • Suisun Marsh -- Methylmercury and Low Dissolved Oxygen Events
  • Yolo Bypass Mercury studies | Methylmercury in agricultural and natural wetlands
  • see USGS Circular 1248
• Colorado
  • Atmospheric deposition of nutrients, pesticides, and mercury in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, 2002
  • Mercury in water, bottom sediment, and zooplankton in two Front Range reservoirs in Colorado
  • see Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budgets (WEBB) Program | Publications
• Connecticut
  • Mercury in Sediment from Long Island Sound and Surrounding Marshes
• Delaware
• District of Columbia
• Florida
  • Tidally driven export of dissolved organic carbon, total mercury, and methylmercury from a mangrove-dominated estuary | Press release
  • Dissolved Organic Matter in the Florida Everglades: Implications for Ecosystem Restoration
  • Sulfur in the South Florida Ecosystem: Distribution, Sources, Biogeochemistry, Impacts, and Management for Restoration
  • Source Identification of Florida Bay's Methylmercury Problem: Mainland Runoff Versus Atmospheric Deposition and In situ Production
  • Dissolved Organic Matter in the Florida Everglades: Implications for Ecosystem Restoration
  • Aquatic Cycling of Mercury in the Everglades
  • Source identification of Florida Bay's methylmercury problem: mainland runoff versus atmospheric deposition and in situ production
  • Mercury in Stream Ecosystems
• Georgia
  • see Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budgets (WEBB) Program | Publications
• Hawaii
• Idaho
  • Biogeochemical mercury methylation influenced by reservoir eutrophication, Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir, Idaho, USA
  • Mercury in soil near a long-term air emission source in southeastern Idaho
  • Benthic flux of metals and nutrients into the water column of Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
  • Mercury in Indiana watersheds: Retrospective for 2001–2006
  • Investigations and Monitoring of Mercury in Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
  • Disturbance impacts on mercury dynamics in northern Gulf of Mexico sediments
  • Mercury Cycling and Transformations across Louisiana Estuarine and Wetland Gradients
• Maine
  • Mercury in Acadia National Park, Maine (special issue of Enivronmental Monitoring and Assessment)
• Watershed Nitrogen and Mercury Fluxes
• Paleoecological Assessment of Watershed History in PRIMENet Watersheds at Acadia National Park
• Controls on mercury and methylmercury deposition for two watersheds in Acadia National Park
• Mass Balances of Mercury and Nitrogen in Burned and Unburned Forested Watersheds at Acadia National Park
• Landscape Controls on Mercury in Streamwater at Acadia National Park
• Determination of source and bioavailability of mercury to bald eagles in Maine
• Mercury in tree swallows and feathers of other species that line tree swallow nests at Acadia National Park, Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
  • Bioavailability and potential effects of mercury and other selected trace metals on biota in Plow Shop and Grove Pond, Fort Devens, MA
  • Sudbury River
• Factors Affecting Food Chain Transfer of Mercury in the Vicinity of the Nyanza Site, Sudbury River, Massachusetts
• Mercury in the Sudbury River (Massacusetts, USA): pollution history and synthesis of recent research
• Distribution, transport, and cycling of mercury in a contaminated river-reservoir-wetland system
• Bioavailability of sediment-associated mercury to Hexagenia mayflies in a contaminated floodplain river
• Distribution and Transport of Total Mercury and Methylmercury in Mercury-Contaminated Sediments in Reservoirs and Wetlands of the Sudbury River, East-Central Massachusetts
• Michigan
  • Mercury in Soil and Lichen, Isle Royale National Park, Lake Superior
• Minnesota
  • Voyageurs National Park
    • Impact of wildfire on levels of mercury in forested watershed systems–Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota
    • Mercury in soils, lakes, and fish in Voyageurs National Park (Minnesota)—Importance of atmospheric deposition and ecosystem factors
    • Mercury data from small lakes in Voyageurs National Park, northern Minnesota, 2000-02
  • Spatial variations in fish-tissue mercury concentrations in the St. Croix River Basin, Minnesota and Wisconsin, 2004
  • Reconnaissance of mercury and methylmercury in the St. Croix River and selected tributaries, Minnesota and Wisconsin, July 2000 through October 2001
  • Methylmercury in flood-control impoundments and natural waters of Northwestern Minnesota, 1997-99
  • Comparison of mercury concentrations in liver, muscle, whole bodies, and composites of fish from the Red River of the North
• Mississippi
• Missouri
  • Mercury Dynamics in Missouri Ozark Streams
• Montana
  • Mercury Concentrations in Streams Found to Go Through Daily Cycles
• Nebraska
• Nevada
  • Effects of Mercury on Fish-eating and Aquatic Birds Nesting along the Mid-to-Lower Carson River and Willamette River Headwater
  • Determination of Total Mercury in Whole-Body Fish and Fish Muscle Plugs Collected from the South Fork of the Humboldt River, Nevada, September 2005
  • Environmental geochemistry of abandoned mercury mines in West-Central Nevada, USA
  • Mercury methylation at mercury mines in the Humboldt River Basin, Nevada, USA
  • Geochemical Data for Environmental Studies of Mercury Mines in Nevada OFR 99-0576
  • Water Quality in the Las Vegas Valley Area and the Carson and Truckee River Basins, Nevada and California, 1992-96
  • see USGS Circular 1248
• New Hampshire
  • Mercury and Methyl-Mercury Movement in the Lake Champlain Basin
• New Jersey
  • Variable Contributions of Mercury from Groundwater to a First-Order Urban Coastal Plain Stream in New Jersey, USA
  • Mercury and methylmercury dynamics in a Coastal Plain watershed, New Jersey
  • Mercury in ground water, septage, leach-field effluent, and soils in residential areas, New Jersey coastal plain
  • Overview of investigations into mercury in ground water, soils, and septage, New Jersey Coastal Plain
  • Mercury concentrations in water from an unconfined aquifer system, New Jersey coastal plain
  • Mercury variability in domestic wells
  • Total Mercury and Methylmercury in Fish, Water, and Sediments from Streams in the Delaware River Basin, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
• New Mexico
• New York
  • Mercury in Stream Ecosystems
  • Specific ultra-violet absorbance as an indicator of mercury sources in an Adirondack River basin
  • Landscape controls on total and methyl Hg in the upper Hudson River basin, New York, USA
  • Mercury in macroinvertebrates and fishes from streams of two contrasting forested landscapes in the eastern United States
  • Spatial and seasonal variability of dissolved methylmercury in two stream basins in the eastern United States
  • Hydrological mobilization of mercury and dissolved organic carbon in a snow-dominated, forested watershed: conceptualization and modeling (Adirondacks)
  • Total Mercury and Methylmercury in Fish, Water, and Sediments from Streams in the Delaware River Basin, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
  • Reconnaissance of Mercury in Lakes, Wetlands, and Rivers in the Red River of the North Basin, North Dakota, March Through August 2001
  • Comparison of mercury concentrations in liver, muscle, whole bodies, and composites of fish from the Red River of the North
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
  • Effects of Mercury on Fish-eating and Aquatic Birds Nesting along the Mid-to-Lower Carson River and Willamette River Headwater
  • Mercury in Stream Ecosystems
• Pennsylvania
  • Total Mercury and Methylmercury in Fish, Water, and Sediments from Streams in the Delaware River Basin, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
  • Mercury in Stream Ecosystems
  • Shallow Groundwater Mercury Supply in a Coastal Plain Stream
  • Characterizing mercury concentrations and fluxes in a Coastal Plain watershed: Insights from dynamic modeling and data
  • Hydrology and methylmercury availability in Coastal Plain streams
  • Mercury in macroinvertebrates and fishes from streams of two contrasting forested landscapes in the eastern United States
  • Spatial and seasonal variability of dissolved methylmercury in two stream basins in the eastern United States
  • Comparison of Methylmercury Production and Accumulation in Sediments of the Congaree and Edisto River Basins, South Carolina, 2004-06
  • Flood hydrology and methylmercury availability in Coastal Plain rivers
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
  • Diurnal trends in methylmercury concentration in a wetland adjacent to Great Salt Lake
  • Contaminants in Waterbirds Breeding in the Great Basin
  • Mercury Rising: Mercury in water and biota from Great Salt Lake
  • Mercury in water and biota from Great Salt Lake, Utah: Reconnaissance-phase Results
• Vermont
  • Streamwater fluxes of total mercury and methylmercury into and out of Lake Champlain
  • Mass balance assessment for mercury in Lake Champlain
  • Mercury on the move during snowmelt in Vermont
  • see Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budgets (WEBB) Program | Publications
  • New England Coastal Basins Mercury Deposition Network
• Virginia
  • South River and South Fork Shenandoah River Mercury TMDL Study
• Washington
  • Mercury and Other Constituents in Water, Sediment, and Biota of Sinclair Inlet, Washington, 2007-10
  • Mercury in Lake Whatcom, Washington
  • Mercury Sources to Lake Ozette and Lake Dickey: Highly Contaminated Remote Coastal Lakes, Washington State, USA
  • Mercury in Sediment, Water, and Biota of Sinclair Inlet, Puget Sound, Washington, 1989-2007
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
  • Bi-phasic trends in mercury concentrations in blood of Wisconsin common loons during 1992-2010
  • Mercury dispersion from local and regional emission sources, rural Central Wisconsin, USA
  • Mercury in Stream Ecosystems
  • Mercury cycling in the Allequash Creek watershed, northern Wisconsin
  • see Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budgets (WEBB) Program | Publications
• Wyoming
  • Mercury from Yellowstone's Geysers
  • Glacial Ice Cores Reveal A Record of Natural and Anthropogenic Atmospheric Mercury Deposition for the Last 270 Years