Welcome to the John Wesley Powell Center Working Group on mercury cycling, bioaccumulation, and risk across North America.

The Western North America Mercury Synthesis is a collaborative effort by Biodiversity Research Institute and the U.S. Geological Survey to examine mercury in the western landscape of North America in order to predict (1) the cycling of mercury through the landscape under specific and changing climatic conditions, (2) the bioaccumulation of mercury within habitat-specific and regional food webs, and (3) spatiotemporal patterns in mercury risks to key indicator species. The data collection and compilation will allow for spatial and temporal analysis of mercury, which is a component of the much larger MercNet data synthesis effort.
Through our efforts with the USGS Powell Center, we will utilize this web space to collect metadata and mercury data from distinct data sets across Western North America.