Determination of mercury in the eggs of common murres (Uria aalge) for the seabird tissue archival and monitoring project{

• Main Authors: S. J. Christopher, Er Pol, R. S. Pugh, R. D. Day, P. R. Becker
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; George Islands; Common Murre; Uria aalge; Alaska; uria
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.489.1523; http://www.nativescience.org/assets/Documents/PDF Documents/HgSTAMP.pdf

An analytical method using isotope dilution cold vapor inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ID-CV-ICPMS) was developed for the determination of total mercury in the eggs of seabirds. Components including error magnification, verification of method accuracy and assignment of analytical uncer...