Interpretive publications

Scudder, B.C., Chasar, L.C., Wentz, D.A., Bauch, N.J., Brigham, M.E., Moran, P.W., and Krabbenhoft, D.P., 2009, Mercury in fish, bed sediment, and water from streams across the United States, 1998–2005. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009–5109, 74 p.

Brigham, M.E., Wentz, D.A., Aiken, G.R., and Krabbenhoft, D.P., 2009, Mercury cycling in stream ecosystems. 1. Water column chemistry and transport: Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 43, No. 8, p. 2720–2725.

Marvin-DiPasquale, Mark, Lutz, M.A., Brigham, M.E., Krabbenhoft, D.P., Aiken, G.R., Orem, W.H., and Hall, B.D., 2009, Mercury cycling in stream ecosystems. 2. Benthic methylmercury production and bed sediment—pore water partitioning: Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 43, No. 8, p. 2726–2732.

Chasar, L.C., Scudder, B.C., Stewart, A.R., Bell, A.H., and Aiken, G.R., 2009, Mercury cycling in stream ecosystems. 3. Trophic dynamics and methylmercury bioaccumulation: Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 43, No. 8, p. 2733–2739.

Bell, A.H. and Scudder, B.C., 2007, Mercury accumulation in periphyton of eight river ecosystems, Journal of the American Water Resources Association Vol. 43, No. 4., p. 1-12.

Brumbaugh, W.G., Krabbenhoft, D.P., Helsel, D.R., Wiener, J.G., and Echols, K.R., 2001, A national pilot study of mercury contamination of aquatic ecosystems along multiple gradients—bioaccumulation in fish: U.S. Geological Survey USGS/BRD/BSR—2001-0009.

Krabbenhoft, D.P., Wiener, J.G., Brumbaugh, W.G., Olson, M.L., DeWild, J.F., and Sabin, T.J., 1999, A National pilot study of mercury contamination of aquatic ecosystems along multiple gradients, in U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program—Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999—Volume 2 of 3—Contamination of Hydrologic Systems and Related Ecosystems: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018B, p. 147-160.

Interpretive publications from collaborative studies

Fulkerson, M., Nnadi, F.N., and Chasar, L.C., 2007, Characterizing dry deposition of mercury in urban runoff: Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, v. 185, p. 21-32. 

Fulkerson, M., and Nnadi, F.N., 2006, Predicting mercury wet deposition in Florida--A simple approach: Atmospheric Environment, v. 40, p. 3962-3968.

Methods and Data

Bauch, N.J., Chasar, L.C., Scudder, B.C., Moran, P.W., Hitt, K.J., Brigham, M.E., Lutz, M.A., and Wentz, D.A., 2009, Data on mercury in water, streambed sediment, and fish tissue from selected streams across the United States, 1998–2005: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series Report 307.

Bell, A.H., and Lutz, M.A., 2008, Environmental settings of selected streams sampled for mercury in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Florida, 2002-06: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1277.

Scudder, B.C., Chasar, L.C., DeWeese, L.R., Brigham, M.E., Wentz, D.A., and Brumbaugh, W.G., 2008, Procedures for collecting and processing aquatic invertebrates and fish for analysis of mercury as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1208, 34 p.

Marvin-DiPasquale, M.C., Lutz, M.A., Krabbenhoft, D.P., Aiken, G.R., Orem, W.R., Hall, B.D., DeWild, J.F., and Brigham, M.E., 2008, Total mercury, methylmercury, methylmercury production potential, and ancillary streambed-sediment and pore-water data for selected streams in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Florida, 2003-04: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 375, 24 p. 

Lutz, M. A., Marvin-DiPasquale, M., and Brigham, M. E., 2008, Procedures for collecting and processing streambed sediment and pore water for analysis of mercury as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1279, 68 p.

Chasar, L.C., Scudder, B.C., Bell, A.H., Wentz, D.A., and Brigham, M.E., 2008, Total mercury, methylmercury, and carbon and nitrogen isotope data for biota from selected streams in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Florida, 2002-04: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 349, 10 p. 

Brigham, M.E., Duris, J.W., Wentz, D.A., Button, D.T., and Chasar, L.C., 2008, Total mercury, methylmercury, and ancillary water-quality and streamflow data for selected streams in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Florida, 2002-06: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 341, 11 p. 

Bell, A.H. and Scudder, B.C., 2005, Bioaccumulation of Mercury in Riverine Periphyton, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1446, 8 p.

Lewis, M.E. and Brigham, M.E., 2004, Low-level Mercury, U.S. Geological Survey Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations, book 9, chap. A5, section 5.6.4, 26 p.

Fact sheets & features

Burns, D., and Murray, K., 2008, On the trail of mercury in the Upper Hudson River watershed, Spruce Moose, Fall 2008, p. 9-11.

Brigham, M.E., Krabbenhoft, D.P., and Hamilton, P.A., 2003, Mercury in Stream Ecosystems—New Studies Initiated by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 016-03, 4 p.