Mercury and carbon in marine pelagic zooplankton: linkage with oceanographic processes in the Canadian High Arctic

• Main Author: Pomerleau, Corinne
• Other Authors: Stern, Gary (Environment and Geography), Ferguson, Steven (Environment and Geography) Wang, Feiyue (Chemistry)
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: mercury; zooplankton; stable isotope; High Arctic; Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Mackenzie River; Prince Of Wales Glacier; Smith Sound; Wales Glacier; Amundsen Gulf; Calanus hyperboreus; Mackenzie river; Mackenzie Shelf; Prince of Wales Glacier; Sea ice; Smith sound; Themisto; Themisto libellula; Zooplankton
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3068

This thesis investigates the relationships between mercury (Hg) and stable isotope of carbon (δ13C) in marine pelagic zooplankton (Calanus spp., Themisto spp. and Euchaeta spp.) with water mass characteristics in the North Water Polynya (NOW) and in the Mackenzie shelf – Amundsen Gulf area. Two ship...