Geochemical and Microbiological Controls on Mercury Methylation in Natural Waters

• Main Author: Agather, Alison M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CORE Scholar 2018
• Subjects: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Biogeochemistry; Environmental Science; Limnology; Oceanography; Monomethylmercury; MMHg; Mercury Methylation; Hg methylation; Environmental Sciences; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Strait; Canada; Chukchi Shelf; Dayton; Fitzgerald; Pacific; Chukchi; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/etd_all/2201; https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3342&context=etd_all

Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant toxic to humans and wildlife. Monomethylmercury (MMHg) is a bioavailable compound that bioaccumulates and biomagnifies in food webs. Humans are primarily exposed to MMHg from seafood consumption (Sunderland 2007), and high quantities of the neurotoxin lead to reduc...