Mercury Modeling in Watersheds and Water Bodies

Objective:

To improve the scientific understanding of the linkage between mercury loadings to watersheds, speciated mercury concentrations in water bodies, and fish methylmercury bioaccumulation.
To complete a set of watershed and water body models for transformation and bioaccumulation of mercury that can be linked with models for atmospheric deposition and hydrology to yield a multimedia integrated modeling system capable of quantifying regional exposure to mercury.
To apply state of the art watershed and water body modeling to assess exposures to mercury for impacted aquatic ecosystems.

Mercury Team Members:

Robert Ambrose

Elsie Sunderland