Mercury content in floodplain sediments from the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, 2022 ...

Due to atmospheric circulation and preservation of organic matter, large amounts of mercury (Hg) are stored in permafrost regions. Due to rapid warming and thawing permafrost in the Arctic, this Hg may be released, potentially degrading water quality and impacting human health. River bank erosion in...

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Main Authors: Isabel Smith, M., Douglas, Madison M., Dunne, Kieran B.J., Fischer, Woodward W., Geyman, Emily C., Ke, Yutian, Lamb, Michael P., Magyar, John S., Mutter, Edda A., Reahl, Jocelyn N., Seelen, Emily A., West, A. Joshua
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2024
Subjects:
Arctic
Permafrost
Mercury
Huslia
Yukon
Human health
permafrost
Yukon river
Alaska
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2rf5kh5j
https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2RF5KH5J
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Summary:Due to atmospheric circulation and preservation of organic matter, large amounts of mercury (Hg) are stored in permafrost regions. Due to rapid warming and thawing permafrost in the Arctic, this Hg may be released, potentially degrading water quality and impacting human health. River bank erosion in particular has the ability to quickly mobilize large amounts of Hg-rich floodplain sediments. As part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project to better understand the effects of erosion in the Yukon River Basin, floodplain sediments were collected between June and September 2022 at two locations underlain by discontinuous permafrost within the Yukon River Basin: Beaver, Alaska (AK) (65.700 N, 156.387 W) and Huslia, AK (66.362N, 147.398 W). This dataset contains mercury contents for collected floodplain sediments measured by direct thermal decomposition. Sample metadata also includes information recorded in the field (location, visual grain size description, and sample collection depth) and collected ...

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