Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Proceedings of the Third International Conference held in Whistler, British Columbia, July 10–14, 1994

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Exposure of Canadian Aboriginal Peoples to Methylmercury....Pages 3-11
Exposure of James Bay Cree to Methylmercury During Pregnancy for the Years 1983–91....Pages 13-19
Exposure to Mercury in Canada: A Multimedia Analysis....Pages 21-30
Human Exposure to Mercury May Decrease as Acidic Deposition Increases....Pages 31-39
Mercury Exposure in Humans Through Food Consumption from the Everglades of Florida....Pages 41-48
Pharmacokinetic Dose Estimates of Mercury in Children and Dose-Response Curves of Performance Tests in a Large Epidemiological Study....Pages 49-58
Mass Balance and Systemic Uptake of Mercury Released from Dental Amalgam Fillings....Pages 59-67
Mercury Contamination of Fish in the Ojibwa Diet: I. Walleye Fillets and Skin-on Versus Skin-off Sampling....Pages 69-76
Mercury Contamination of Fish in the Ojibwa Diet: II. Sensory Evoked Responses in Rats Fed Walleye....Pages 77-83
Human Exposure to Mercury Due to Goldmining in the Tapajos River Basin, Amazon, Brazil: Speciation of Mercury in Human Hair, Blood and Urine....Pages 85-94
Inorganic Mercury Interactions with Lipid Components of Biological Membranes: 31 P-NMR Study of Hg(II) Binding to Headgroups of Micellar Phospholipids....Pages 95-98
Swedish Experiences of the Ban on Products Containing Mercury....Pages 99-102
Mercury Reactions in the Human Mouth with Dental Amalgams....Pages 103-107
Mercury Contamination in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental and Occupational Aspects....Pages 109-121
HgEx — A Heuristic System on Mercury Pollution in the Amazon....Pages 123-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Mercury Stack Emissions from U.S. Electric Utility Power Plants....Pages 135-144
Mercury Speciation Adsorption (Mesa) Method for Combustion Flue Gas: Methodology, Artifacts, Intercomparison, and Atmospheric Implications....Pages 145-158
Particulate Mercury in the Atmosphere: Its Significance, Transport, Transformation and Sources....Pages 159-168
An Intensive Multi-Site Pilot Study Investigating Atmospheric Mercury in Broward County, Florida....Pages 169-178
Ambient Levels and Dry Deposition Fluxes of Mercury to Lakes Huron, Erie and St. Clair....Pages 179-188
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Atmospheric Mercury in Northern Wisconsin: Sources and Species....Pages 189-198
Atmospheric Sources, Transport and Deposition of Mercury in Michigan: Two Years of Event Precipitation....Pages 199-208
Impact of the State-of-the-Art of Flue Gas Cleaning on Mercury Species Emissions from Coal-Fired Steam Generators....Pages 209-215
Atmospheric Mercury Concentrations Above Mercury Contaminated Mill Tailings in the Carson River Drainage Basin, NV....Pages 217-220
Methylmercury in Runoff from the Svartberget Catchment in Northern Sweden during a Stormflow Episode....Pages 221-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Long-Term Changes in Concentration and Deposition of Atmospheric Mercury Over Scandinavia....Pages 227-233
Total Gaseous Mercury Measurements in Florida: The Fams Project (1992–1994)....Pages 235-244
Is Mercury Increasing in the Atmosphere? The Need for an Atmospheric Mercury Network (Amnet)....Pages 245-254
An Update of the Mercury Inventory and Atmospheric Mercury Fluxes to and from Finland....Pages 255-264
Anthropogenic Influences on the Global Mercury Cycle: A Model-Based Analysis....Pages 265-272
Atmospheric Mercury and Trace Elements in the Region of Alta Floresta in the Amazon Basin....Pages 273-283
Overview of the Florida Atmospheric Mercury Study (Fams)....Pages 285-290
Linkages Between Atmospheric Mercury Deposition and the Methylmercury Content of Marine Fish....Pages 291-297
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
The Gas Phase Oxidation of Elemental Mercury by Ozone....Pages 301-315
Modeling the Atmospheric Chemistry of Mercury....Pages 317-324
Development and Application of a Reactive Plume Model for Mercury Emissions....Pages 325-335
An Experimental Study of Two Potential Methylation Agents of Mercury in the Atmosphere: CH 3 I and DMS....Pages 337-341
Relationships Between the Atmospheric Deposition of Trace Elements, Major Ions, and Mercury in Florida: The Fams Project (1992–1993)....Pages 343-352
Wet Deposition of Mercury and Ambient Mercury Concentrations at a Site in the Lake Champlain Basin....Pages 353-362
Mechanisms of Deposition of Methylmercury and Mercury to Coniferous Forests....Pages 363-371
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Foliar Exchange of Mercury Vapor: Evidence for a Compensation Point....Pages 373-382
The Precise Measurement of Concentration Gradients of Mercury in Air Over Soils: A Review of Past and Recent Measurements....Pages 383-392
Atmospheric Deposition of Mercury in Florida: The Fams Project (1992–1994)....Pages 393-402
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Wet Deposition of Methyl Mercury in Northwestern Ontario Compared to Other Geographic Locations....Pages 405-414
Cycling of Methyl Mercury and Mercury — Responses in the Forest Roof Catchment to Three Years of Decreased Atmospheric Deposition....Pages 415-424
Mercury Cycling in the Allequash Creek Watershed, Northern Wisconsin....Pages 425-433
Terrestrial Sources of Methylmercury in Surface Waters: The Importance of the Riparian Zone on the Svartberget Catchment....Pages 435-444
Methylmercury Output from the Svartberget Catchment in Northern Sweden During Spring Flood....Pages 445-454
Subcatchment Output of Mercury and Methylmercury at Svartberget in Northern Sweden....Pages 455-465
Anthropogenic Mercury Enrichment in Remote Lakes of Northern Québec (Canada)....Pages 467-476
Output of Methylmercury from a Catchment in Northern Sweden....Pages 477-481
Effect of pH and Iodide on the Adsorption of Mercury(II) by Illite....Pages 483-486
Front Matter....Pages 487-487
Modeling the transport and Fate of Mercury in an Urban Lake (Onondaga Lake, NY)....Pages 489-498
The Role of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Chemistry and Bioavailability of Mercury in Remote Adirondack Lakes....Pages 499-508
Total Mercury and Methylmercury Mass Balance in an Alkaline, Hypereutrophic Urban Lake (Onondaga Lake, NY)....Pages 509-517
Use of the Mercury Cycling Model (MCM) to Predict the Fate of Mercury in the Great Lakes....Pages 519-528
Modeling the Elemental Mercury Cycle in Pallette Lake, Wisconsin, USA....Pages 529-538
Mercury Speciation in Lake Baikal....Pages 539-551
Mercury Cycling in the Water Column of a Seasonally Anoxic Urban Lake (Onondaga Lake, NY)....Pages 553-562
Distribution of Mercury in the Aquatic Food Web of Onondaga Lake, New York....Pages 563-571
Front Matter....Pages 487-487
Fluxes of Mercury through Biota in the LG-2 Reservoir After Flooding....Pages 573-576
Concentrations and Amounts of Methylmercury in Water and Fish in the Limed and Acid Basins of a Small Lake....Pages 577-580
Mercury Concentrations In Two Great “Waters”....Pages 581-584
Methylmercury Distribution and Partitioning in Stratified Finnish Forest Lakes....Pages 585-588
Front Matter....Pages 589-589
Mercury in Vegetation and Lake Sediments from the U. S. Arctic....Pages 591-601
Current and Historical Inputs of Mercury to High-Latitude Lakes in Canada and to Hudson Bay....Pages 603-610
International Field Intercomparison of Atmospheric Mercury Measurement Methods....Pages 611-620
Sources of Mercury in the Arctic....Pages 621-632
Mercury Concentrations in Fish in a Remote Canadian Arctic Lake....Pages 633-636
Pre-Industrial Atmospheric Deposition Of Mercury: Uncertain Rates from Lake Sediment and Peat Cores....Pages 637-640
Mercury Speciation in the Scheldt Estuary....Pages 641-652
The Distribution of Dissolved and Particulate Mercury in Three Siberian Estuaries and Adjacent Arctic Coastal Waters....Pages 653-664
Methylated and Elemental Mercury Cycling in Surface and Deep Ocean Waters of the North Atlantic....Pages 665-677
A Preliminary Mercury Budget for Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island, USA)....Pages 679-682
Arctic Marine Mammals as Integrators and Indicators of Mercury in the Arctic....Pages 683-693
Front Matter....Pages 695-695
Sources of Methyl Mercury to Freshwater Ecosystems: A Review....Pages 697-713
Is Total Mercury Concentration a Good Predictor of Methyl Mercury Concentration in Aquatic Systems?....Pages 715-724
Determination of Mercury Methylation Rates using a 203-HG Radiotracer Technique....Pages 725-734
Methylmercury production in the Anoxic Hypolimnion of a Dimictic Seepage Lake....Pages 735-745
Measurement of Hg Methylation in Sediments Using High Specific-Activity 203 Hg and Ambient Incubation....Pages 747-756
Front Matter....Pages 695-695
Involvement of Bacteria in Methylmercury Formation in Anaerobic Lake Waters....Pages 757-764
Methylmercury Production in Flooded Soils: A Laboratory Study....Pages 765-773
The Role of Microorganisms in Elemental Mercury Formation in Natural Waters....Pages 775-787
Influence of Humic Substances on Photolysis of Divalent Mercury in Aqueous Solution....Pages 789-798
A Case Study of Mercury and Methylmercury Dynamics in a Hg-Contaminated Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant....Pages 799-803
Dimethylmercury and Dimethylmercury-Sulfide of Microbial Origin in the Biogeochemical Cycle of Hg....Pages 805-815
Front Matter....Pages 817-817
Changes in Mercury Levels in Lake Whitefish ( Coregonus Clupeaformis ) and Northern Pike ( Esox lucius ) in the LG-2 Reservoir Since Flooding....Pages 819-828
Stories from old Reservoirs: Sediment Hg and Hg Methylation in Ontario Hydroelectric Developments....Pages 829-839
Mercury Uptake Patterns of Biota in a Seasonally Anoxic Northern California Reservoir....Pages 841-850
Seabirds as Monitors of Mercury in the Marine Environment....Pages 851-870
Common Loons ( Gavia immer ) Nesting on Low pH Lakes in Northern Wisconsin Have Elevated Blood Mercury Content....Pages 871-880
Mercury Anomalies in Lake Water and in Commercially Harvested Fish, Kaminak Lake Area, District of Keewatin, Canada....Pages 881-884
Mercury concentrations in freshwater fishes in New Jersey....Pages 885-888
Mercury in Fish Muscle in Acidified and Limed Lakes....Pages 889-892
Methylmercury Concentration in Shark Muscle by Species, Size and Distribution of Sharks in Florida Coastal Waters....Pages 893-899
Bioenergetic Calculation of Mercury Accumulation in Fish....Pages 901-904
The Methylmercury to Total Mercury Ratio in Selected Marine, Freshwater, and Terrestrial Organisms....Pages 905-913
Bioaccumulation of Mercury and Methylmercury....Pages 915-921
Impacts of Mercury Contamination in the Southeastern United States....Pages 923-926
Mercury in Fish in the Smallwood Reservoir, Labrador, Twenty One Years After Impoundment....Pages 927-930
Front Matter....Pages 817-817
Mercury in Zooplankton of Northern Wisconsin Lakes: Taxonomic and Site-Specific Trends....Pages 931-938
Front Matter....Pages 939-939
Prospects for Modeling the Behavior and Fate of Mercury, Globally and in Aquatic Systems....Pages 941-950
Impacts of Mercury on Benthic Invertebrate Populations and Communities within the Aquatic Ecosystem of Clear Lake, California....Pages 951-960
Different Factors Related to Mercury Concentration in Sediments and Zooplankton of 73 Canadian Lakes....Pages 961-970
Relations between Organic Carbon and Methylmercury in Humic Rich Surface Waters from Svartberget Catchment in Northern Sweden....Pages 971-979
Mercury Accumulation Trends in Florida Everglades and Savannas Marsh Flooded Soils....Pages 981-990
Ultra Trace Level Mercury in the Everglades Ecosystem, a Multi-Media Canal Pilot Study....Pages 991-1001
Temperature, pH and Photoperiod Effects on Mercury Bioaccumulation by Nymphs of the Burrowing Mayfly Hexagenia rigida ....Pages 1003-1006
Uptake of Aqueous Methylmercury by Larval Chaoborus americanus ....Pages 1007-1010
The Influence of Trophic Level as Measured by δ 15 N on Mercury Concentrations in Freshwater Organisms....Pages 1011-1015
Preliminary Results on the Role of Rivers in Total Hg Concentrations in Marine Sediments and Benthic Organisms of a Coastal Area of Italy....Pages 1017-1020
Mercury Contamination in Northern Québec Environment and Wildlife....Pages 1021-1024
Comparison of Mercury Concentrations in Modern Lake Sediments and Glacial Drift in the Canadian Shield in the Region of Ottawa/Kingston to Georgian bay, Ontario, Canada....Pages 1025-1029
Binding of Methylmercury Compounds by Humic and Fulvic Acids....Pages 1031-1034
Distribution of Mercury in the Sediments of Onondaga Lake, N.Y.....Pages 1035-1038
Temporal Variation of Mercury in Vegetation....Pages 1039-1042
Mercury Distribution in Humus and Surficial Sediments, Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada....Pages 1043-1046
The Importance of Geological Controls on the Natural Distribution of Mercury in Lake and Stream Sediments Across Canada....Pages 1047-1051
Solubility of Cinnabar (Red HgS) and Implications for Mercury Speciation in Sulfidic Waters....Pages 1053-1056
Front Matter....Pages 1057-1057
Design and Initial Tests of a Dynamic Enclosure Chamber for Measurements of Vapor-Phase Mercury Fluxes Over Soils....Pages 1059-1068
Front Matter....Pages 1057-1057
The Biogeochemical Cycling of Hg in Forests: Alternative Methods for Quantifying Total Deposition and Soil Emission....Pages 1069-1077
Geochemistry of Mercury in Pristine and Flooded Ferralitic Soils of a Tropical Rain Forest in French Guiana, South America....Pages 1079-1088
Mercury Contaminated Sites — Behaviour of Mercury and its Species in Lysimeter Experiments....Pages 1089-1098
The Partitioning of Mercury in the Solid Components of Dry and Flooded Forest Soils and Sediments from a Hydroelectric Reservoir, Quebec (Canada)....Pages 1099-1103
Characterization of Mercury Species in Contaminated Floodplain Soils....Pages 1105-1108
Glacial Dispersal of Mercury from Bedrock Mineralization Along Pinchi Fault, North Central British Columbia....Pages 1109-1112
Effects of Root Morphology and Hg Concentration in the Soil on Uptake by Terrestrial Vascular Plants....Pages 1113-1116
Front Matter....Pages 1117-1117
Mercury in Soils and Crops from Fields Receiving High Cumulative Sewage Sludge Applications: Validation of U. S. EPA’s Risk Assessment for Human Ingestion....Pages 1119-1127
Mercury from Power Plants: A Probabilistic Approach to the Evaluation of Potential Health Risks....Pages 1129-1138
An Assessment of Adult Risks of Paresthesia Due to Mercury from Coal Combustion....Pages 1139-1148
Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines for Mercury....Pages 1149-1159
A Multi-Media Approach to Permitting Mercury Releases from Coal-Fired Power Plants....Pages 1161-1170
A Mercury Model Used for Assessment of Dredging Impacts....Pages 1171-1180
Mercury Pathways in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants....Pages 1181-1190
Field-Based Research on Elemental Mercury Spills....Pages 1191-1197
The Accelerated Reduction and Elimination of Toxics in Canada: The Case of Mercury-Containing Medical Instruments in Quebec Hospital Centres....Pages 1199-1202
Mercury in the Natural Gas Industry in Canada....Pages 1203-1206
Front Matter....Pages 1207-1207
Denuder-Based Techniques for Sampling, Separation and Analysis of Gaseous and Particulate Mercury in Air....Pages 1209-1216
On-Line Measurement of Mercury in Simulated Flue Gas....Pages 1217-1226
Atmospheric Mercury Measurements in the Northern Hemisphere from 56° to 82.5° N Latitude....Pages 1227-1236
Front Matter....Pages 1207-1207
Hydride Generation ICP-MS (HG-ICP-MS) for the Ultra LowLevel Determination of Mercury in Biota....Pages 1237-1245
Field Sampling and Analytical Intercomparison for Mercury and Methylmercury Determination in Natural Water....Pages 1247-1256
Results of the International Aqueous Mercury Speciation Intercomparison Exercise....Pages 1257-1268
Use of a Refluxing Mist Chamber for Measurement of Gas-Phase Mercury(II) Species in the Atmosphere....Pages 1269-1278
Automated Mercury Determination in Waters....Pages 1279-1284
Method Development and Sample Processing of Water, Soil, and Tissue for the Analysis of Total and Organic Mercury by Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry....Pages 1285-1294
Field Analysis of Mercury in Water, Sediment and Soil Using Static Headspace Analysis....Pages 1295-1304
A New Sensitive and Portable Mercury Vapor Analyzer Gardis-1A....Pages 1305-1309
Intercomparison of Stack Gas Mercury Measurement Methods....Pages 1311-1314
Determination of Atmospheric Hg by Collection on Iodated Carbon, Acid Digestion and Cvafs Detection....Pages 1315-1318
Matrix Modification to Improve the Recovery of MMHg from Clear Water Using Distillation....Pages 1319-1323
Volatilization of Dimethylmercury and Elemental Mercury from River Elbe Floodplain Soils....Pages 1325-1329
Back Matter....Pages 1331-1338