USGS Scientist to Give Keynote Address at Methylmercury Symposium

Dr. David P. Krabbenhoft has been invited to give a keynote address at the symposium "Methylmercury (Impacts on Wildlife and Human Health)" in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 9, 2001. Dr. Krabbenhoft, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Toxic Substances Hydrology Program, will talk about his research on the fate of mercury in aquatic ecosystems. Dr. Krabbenhoft will give a national perspective on "mercury loading and transformations in aquatic ecosystems and its bioaccumulation in fishes," highlighting research conducted under the Toxic Substances Hydrology Program, as well as other U.S. Geological Survey programs. His talk will follow a keynote address by Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy. Senator Leahy will give a "broad overview of the threat of mercury contamination to wildlife and human health in the United States, and the world."

Information on the Symposium

Symposium -- Methylmercury (Impacts on Wildlife and Human Health)

April 9-10, 2001
Town & Country Inn & Conference Center
2008 Savannah Highway (U.S. 17 South)
Charleston, South Carolina

Sponsored By

• National Estuarine Research Reserve System
• South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
• South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
• South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium

For more information please contact:

Charles J. Moore
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources?
Office of Environmental Management
P.O. Box 12559
Charleston, S.C. 29412
(843) 762-5037

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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 and USEPA cosponsor Workshop - "Assessment of Mercury Cycling Awareness in the Environment" May 8-10 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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