Estimated Input of Mercury to Kusawa Lake, Northern Canada, from Snow and Glacial Melt Water

• Main Author: Beckholmen, Ingrid
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper 2016
• Subjects: Mercury; HBV-model; Kusawa Lake; Canada; runoff; glaciers; Kvicksilver; Kanada; avrinning; glaciärer; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Yukon; glacier*; Whitehorse
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-313330

Unusually high levels of mercury (Hg) have been detected in several northern Canadian lakes, remote from human industrial activities. At Kusawa Lake, a subalpine glacier-fed mountain lake situated in the Yukon Territory (western Canada), measurements of Hg in caught fish are below, but worryingly cl...