2008 National Mercury Monitoring Workshop

USGS scientists setting up mercury-aerosol sampling equipment in front of the USGS Mobile Atmospheric Mercury Laboratory at the Weeks Bay Estuarine Research Reserve, Mobile, Alabama. The laboratory has onboard instrumentation to measure aerosol concentrations and to continuously monitor mercury speciation and concentrations, air quality, automated wet deposition collection, and meteorological conditions (larger version)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) co-sponsored the 2008 National Mercury Monitoring Workshop in Annapolis, Maryland, on May 5-7, 2008. The goal of the workshop was to "develop a strategy for designing and implementing a collaborative, integrated national network for monitoring the ecological responses of mercury deposition." Workshop participants produced a report that details a national mercury monitoring network design and strategy. The workshop was U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Clean Air Markets Division, and co-sponsored by the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, U.S. Geological Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service

Workshop Steering Committee

• Richard Artz, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Thomas Atkeson, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
• Ryan Callison, Cherokee Nation
• Charles Driscoll, Syracuse University
• David Evers, BioDiversity Research Institute
• David Gay, National Atmospheric Deposition Program
• Richard Haeuber, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• David Krabbenhoft, U.S. Geological Survey
• Robert Mason, University of Connecticut
• Gregory Masson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Kristi Morris, National Park Service
• David Schmeltz, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Edward Swain, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

General Conference Information

• National Mercury Monitoring Workshop (MarcNet) Home Page
• Workshop Agenda (pdf)

More Information

• MercNet-Establishing a Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Network: Workshop Final Report (pdf)
• National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP)
• Atmospheric Mercury Initiative, NADP
• Mercury Deposition Network, NADP

Related Headlines

• Mercury Concentrations in Streams Found to Go Through Daily Cycles
• USGS Mobile Atmospheric Mercury Laboratory Makes an Impact
• National Fish Mercury Model Available On-Line
• OSTP Report on Methylmercury in the Gulf of Mexico
• Glacial Ice Cores Reveal the History of Global Mercury Contamination 
• Mercury-Contaminated Fish--Is it Old or New Mercury?

USGS Information on Mercury

• Mercury in Aquatic Ecosystems
• USGS Mercury Research Laboratory
• Mercury in the Environment: USGS Mercury Activities
• Aquatic Cycling of Mercury in the Everglades (ACME)
• Minerals Information: Mercury, Statistics and Information
• Other USGS Mercury Activities

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