Mercury biogeochemical cycling: A synthesis of recent scientific advances

Mae Sexauer Gustin; Michael S Bank; Kevin Bishop; Katlin Bowman; Brian Branfireun; John Chételat; Chris S Eckley; Chad R Hammerschmidt; Carl Lamborg; Seth Lyman; Antonio Martínez-Cortizas; Jonas Sommar; Martin Tsz-Ki Tsui; Tong Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139619

Mercury biogeochemical cycling: A synthesis of recent scientific advances

Sci Total Environ. 2020 Oct 1:737:139619. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139619. Epub 2020 May 23.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89439, USA. Electronic address: mgustin@cabnr.unr.edu.
² Department of Contaminants and Biohazards, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway; Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01255, USA.
³ Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7050, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden.
⁴ Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA; University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences Department, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
⁵ Department of Biology and Centre for Environment and Sustainability, Western University, London, Canada.
⁶ Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3, Canada.
⁷ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region-10, 1200 6th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA.
⁸ Wright State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH 45435, USA.
⁹ University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences Department, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
¹⁰ Bingham Research Center, Utah State University, 320 N Aggie Blvd., Vernal, UT, USA.
¹¹ EcoPast (GI-1553), Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
¹² State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China.
¹³ Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA.
¹⁴ College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China.

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to briefly discuss the major advances in scientific thinking regarding: a) processes governing the fate and transport of mercury in the environment; b) advances in measurement methods; and c) how these advances in knowledge fit in within the context of the Minamata Convention on Mercury. Details regarding the information summarized here can be found in the papers associated with this Virtual Special Issue of STOTEN.

Keywords: Archives; Fluxes; Mercury isotopes; Methylmercury; Minamata Convention; Wildlife.

Grants and funding

EPA999999/ImEPA/Intramural EPA/United States