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Mercury as a Global Pollutant

Proceedings of the Third International Conference held in Whistler, British Columbia, July 10–14, 1994

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  • © 1995

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  1. Donald B. Porcella

    1. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, USA

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  2. John W. Huckabee

    1. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, USA

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  3. Brian Wheatley

    1. Health Canada, Medical Services Branch, Ottawa, Canada

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiv PART I MERCURY AND HUMAN HEALTH B. WHEATLEY and S. PARADIS I Exposure of Canadian Aboriginal Peoples to Methylmercury 3-11 M. GIRARD and C. DUMONT I Exposure of James Bay Cree to Methylmercury during Pregnancy for the Years 1983-91 13-19 M. RICHARDSON, M. MITCHELL, S. COAD and R. RAPHAEL I Exposure to Mercury in Canada: A Multimedia Analysis 21-30 M. RICHARDSON, M. EGYED and D. J. CURRIE I Human Exposure to Mercury may Decrease as Acidic Deposition Increases 31-39 L. E. FLEMING, S. WATKINS, R. KADERMAN, B. LEVIN, D. R. AVYAR, M. BIZZIO, D. STEPHENS and J. A. BEAN I Mercury Exposure in Humans through Food Consumption from the Everglades of Florida 41-48 J. M. GEARHART, H. J. CLEWELL III, K. S. CRUMP, A. M. SHIPP and A. SILVERS I Pharmacokinetic Dose Estimates of Mercury in Children and Dose-Response Curves of Performance Tests in a Large Epidemiological Study 49-58 I. SKARE I Mass Balance and Systemic Uptake of Mercury Released from Dental Amalgam Fillings 59-67 J. DELLINGER, N. KMIECIK, S. GERSTENBERGER and H. NGU I Mercury Contamina­ tion of Fish in the Ojibwa Diet: I. Walleye Fillets and Skin-On versus Skin-Off Sampling 69-76 J. DELLINGER, L. MALEK and M. BEATTIE I Mercury Contamination of Fish in the Ojibwa Diet: II. Sensory Evoked Responses in Rats Fed Walleye 77-83 H. AKAGI, O. MALM, F. J. P. BRANCHES, Y. KINJO, Y. KASHIMA, J. R. D. GUIMARAES, R. B. OLIVEIRA, K. HARAGUCHI, W. C. PFEIFFER, Y.

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Table of contents (152 papers)

  1. Lake and Reservoir Mercury

    1. The Role of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Chemistry and Bioavailability of Mercury in Remote Adirondack Lakes

      • C. T. Driscoll, V. Blette, C. Yan, C. L. Schofield, R. Munson, J. Holsapple
      Pages 499-508

    2. Total Mercury and Methylmercury Mass Balance in an Alkaline, Hypereutrophic Urban Lake (Onondaga Lake, NY)

      • E. A. Henry, L. J. Dodge-Murphy, G. N. Bigham, S. M. Klein, C. C. Gilmour
      Pages 509-517

    3. Use of the Mercury Cycling Model (MCM) to Predict the Fate of Mercury in the Great Lakes

      • D. Leonard, R. Reash, D. Porcella, A. Paralkar, K. Summers, S. Gherini
      Pages 519-528

    4. Modeling the Elemental Mercury Cycle in Pallette Lake, Wisconsin, USA

      • Grace M. Vandal, William F. Fitzgerald, Kristofer R. Rolfhus, Carl H. Lamborg
      Pages 529-538

    5. Mercury Speciation in Lake Baikal

      • C. Meuleman, M. Leermakers, W. Baeyens
      Pages 539-551

    6. Mercury Cycling in the Water Column of a Seasonally Anoxic Urban Lake (Onondaga Lake, NY)

      • L. A. Jacobs, S. M. Klein, E. A. Henry
      Pages 553-562

    7. Distribution of Mercury in the Aquatic Food Web of Onondaga Lake, New York

      • D. S. Becker, G. N. Bigham
      Pages 563-571

    8. Fluxes of Mercury through Biota in the LG-2 Reservoir After Flooding

      • K. A. Morrison, N. Thérien
      Pages 573-576

    9. Concentrations and Amounts of Methylmercury in Water and Fish in the Limed and Acid Basins of a Small Lake

      • M. Rask, M. Verta
      Pages 577-580

    10. Mercury Concentrations In Two Great “Waters”

      • L. B. Cleckner, E. S. Esseks, P. G. Meier, G. J. Keeler
      Pages 581-584

    11. Methylmercury Distribution and Partitioning in Stratified Finnish Forest Lakes

      • M. Verta, T. Matilainen
      Pages 585-588

  2. Mercury in Arctic Lakes, Estuaries and Oceans

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 589-589
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    2. Mercury in Vegetation and Lake Sediments from the U. S. Arctic

      • D. H. Landers, J. Ford, C. Gubala, M. Monetti, B. K. Lasorsa, J. Martinson
      Pages 591-601

    3. Current and Historical Inputs of Mercury to High-Latitude Lakes in Canada and to Hudson Bay

      • W. L. Lockhart, P. Wilkinson, B. N. Billeck, R. V. Hunt, R. Wagemann, G. J. Brunskill
      Pages 603-610

    4. International Field Intercomparison of Atmospheric Mercury Measurement Methods

      • W. H. Schroeder, G. Keeler, H. Kock, P. Roussel, D. Schneeberger, F. Schaedlich
      Pages 611-620

    5. Sources of Mercury in the Arctic

      • J. M. Pacyna, G. J. Keeler
      Pages 621-632

    6. Mercury Concentrations in Fish in a Remote Canadian Arctic Lake

      • G. R. Stephens
      Pages 633-636

    7. Pre-Industrial Atmospheric Deposition Of Mercury: Uncertain Rates from Lake Sediment and Peat Cores

      • M. Meili
      Pages 637-640

    8. Mercury Speciation in the Scheldt Estuary

      • M. Leermakers, C. Meuleman, W. Baeyens
      Pages 641-652

    9. The Distribution of Dissolved and Particulate Mercury in Three Siberian Estuaries and Adjacent Arctic Coastal Waters

      • M. Coquery, D. Cossa, J. M. Martin
      Pages 653-664
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  • Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, USA

    Donald B. Porcella, John W. Huckabee

  • Health Canada, Medical Services Branch, Ottawa, Canada

    Brian Wheatley

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