Assessment of mercury sources in Alaskan lake food webs (version 1.1, September 2023)
This data release includes results of raw water, soil, seston, and fish tissue samples collected from lakes in southwestern Alaska between 2011 and 2016. Specifically, these data include total mercury and methylmercury concentrations in water, size-sieved seston, and particulate matter of 13 remote lakes. Additionally, these data include soil and volcanic ash measurements from the surrounding watersheds. Finally, these data include energetic profiling of seston, lake trout, and sockeye salmon as well as mercury isotope measurements of the fishes. These data are important when interpreting mercury mass balance flows and bioavailability to the food web and are a part of an associated journal article published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00096).
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Title | Assessment of mercury sources in Alaskan lake food webs (version 1.1, September 2023) |
| DOI | 10.5066/P9UEP9C5 |
| Authors | Ryan F. Lepak, Krista K. Bartz, Jacob M Ogorek, Michael T Tate, John F DeWild, Sarah E Janssen |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog |
| USGS Organization | Upper Midwest Water Science Center |
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