Workshop on Assessment of Mercury Cycling Awareness in the Environment

The USGS Toxic Substanstances Hydrology program co-sponsored a workshop conducted by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the Fate, Transport, and Transformation of Mercury in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments. The workshop was held May 8-10, 2001, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Approximately 400 participants included national and international leaders involved in various aspects of environmental mercury research. The purpose of the workshop was to bring experts together from around the world to assess the status of our understanding of mercury cycling in the environment. The Workshop Proceedings is now available.

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Related Meetings

• USGS co-sponsored a special session on "The Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Processes on Mercury Cycling in Mine-Dominated Aquatic Ecosystems" at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2001 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 10-14, 2001.
• USGS Scientist to Give Keynote Address at Methylmercury Symposium -- Methylmercury (Impacts on Wildlife and Human Health) April 9, 2001
• USGS Workshop on Mercury Cycling in the Environment, Golden, Colorado, July 7-9, 1996

More Information

• National Assessment of Mercury in Aquatic Ecosystems Home Page
• Aqueous Crystal Growth and Dissolution Kinetics of Earth Surface Materials
• USGS Mercury Research Laboratory
• A National Pilot Study of Mercury Contamination of Aquatic Ecosystems along Multiple Gradients: Bioaccumulation in Fishes
• Mercury Contamination of Aquatic Ecosystems: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-216-95

Other USGS Mercury Activities

• Aquatic Cycling of Mercury in the Everglades (ACME)
• Fact Sheets
• Mercury in the Environment, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 146-00
• Mercury Contamination from Historic Gold Mining in California, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-061-00
• Mercury and Selenium Poisoning, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 1999-15
• Are walleye from Lake Roosevelt Contaminated with Mercury?, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-102-97
• Mercury Studies in the Florida Everglades, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-166-96
• Environmental Geochemsitry of Mercury Mines in Alaska, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-072-94
• Mercury Contamination of Aquatic Ecosystems: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-216-95
• Mercury in tree swallows and feathers of other species that line tree swallow nests at Acadia National Park, Maine
• Tree swallows as indicators of mercury bioaccumulation in the North Fork of the Holston River, Virginia
• Bioavailability and potential effects of mercury and other selected trace metals on biota in Plow Shop and Grove Pond, Fort Devens, MA
• Assessing the Ecological Risk of Mercury Exposure in Common Loons
• Geoenvironmental Impacts of Mercury and Arsenic
• Materials Flow of Mercury
• Minerals Information: Mercury, Statistics and Information
• Additional Mercury Research in the USGS
• Mercury Links

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