A quantitative synthesis of mercury in commercial seafood and implications for exposure in the United States

R Karimi, TP Fitzgerald, NS Fisher - Environmental Health …, 2012 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Mercury (Hg) is a toxic metal that presents public health risks through fish
consumption. A major source of uncertainty in evaluating harmful exposure is inadequate …

Mercury in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea: A response to decreased atmospheric deposition and changing environment

A Jędruch, L Falkowska, D Saniewska… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Our review of the literature showed that since the beginning of the socio-economic
transformation in Poland in the 1990s, the downward trend in Hg emissions and its …

Mercury in western North America: A synthesis of environmental contamination, fluxes, bioaccumulation, and risk to fish and wildlife

CA Eagles-Smith, JG Wiener, CS Eckley… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Western North America is a region defined by extreme gradients in geomorphology
and climate, which support a diverse array of ecological communities and natural resources …

Sources of mercury to San Francisco Bay surface sediment as revealed by mercury stable isotopes

GE Gehrke, JD Blum, M Marvin-DiPasquale - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2011 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) concentrations and isotopic compositions were examined in shallow-water
surface sediment (0–2cm) from San Francisco (SF) Bay to determine the extent to which …

Mercury isotopes link mercury in San Francisco Bay forage fish to surface sediments

GE Gehrke, JD Blum, DG Slotton… - … science & technology, 2011 - ACS Publications
Identification of sources of biologically accessible Hg is necessary to fully evaluate Hg
exposure in aquatic ecosystems. This study assesses the relationship between Hg in forage …

Mercury isotope study of sources and exposure pathways of methylmercury in estuarine food webs in the Northeastern US

SY Kwon, JD Blum, CY Chen, DE Meattey… - … science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
We measured mercury (Hg) isotope ratios in sediments and various estuarine organisms
(green crab, blue mussel, killifish, eider) to investigate methylmercury (MMHg) sources and …

An isotopic record of mercury in San Francisco Bay sediment

PM Donovan, JD Blum, D Yee, GE Gehrke, MB Singer - Chemical Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
We analyzed eight sediment cores from wetland and subtidal locations around San
Francisco (SF) Bay, terrace sediment from the Yuba River, CA and precipitation from the SF …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of fish biodiversity in estuaries using environmental DNA metabarcoding

H Ahn, M Kume, Y Terashima, F Ye, S Kameyama… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Biodiversity is an important parameter for the evaluation of the extant environmental
conditions. Here, we used environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to investigate fish …

Enduring legacy of a toxic fan via episodic redistribution of California gold mining debris

MB Singer, R Aalto, LA James… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The interrelationships between hydrologically driven evolution of legacy landscapes
downstream of major mining districts and the contamination of lowland ecosystems are …

Nutrient supply and mercury dynamics in marine ecosystems: A conceptual model

CT Driscoll, CY Chen, CR Hammerschmidt… - Environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
There is increasing interest and concern over the impacts of mercury (Hg) inputs to marine
ecosystems. One of the challenges in assessing these effects is that the cycling and trophic …