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Current Mercury Monitoring Approaches in Tribal Country. David Gay NADP Program Office, [email protected], http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu, (217) 244-0462. What Can Be Measured? . Mercury Cycle. Deposition is a very good starting point!. It is the starting place of Hg moving into the biosphere; - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
D. Gay, Schmeltz, Sharac, Nat. Tribal Conf. for Env. Management, Billings, MT, June 26, 2008, Slide 1
Current Mercury Monitoring Approaches in Tribal Country
David Gay
NADP Program Office, [email protected], http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu, (217) 244-0462
D. Gay, Schmeltz, Sharac, Nat. Tribal Conf. for Env. Management, Billings, MT, June 26, 2008, Slide 2
What Can Be Measured?
Mercury Cycle
D. Gay, Schmeltz, Sharac, Nat. Tribal Conf. for Env. Management, Billings, MT, June 26, 2008, Slide 3
Deposition is a very good starting point!
• It is the starting place of Hg moving into the biosphere;
• It is rather simple,• Straightforward• Inexpensive
• Little training or experience needed.
Bioaccumulation of Methyl Mercury
Bacterial action(water and sediment)
Zooplankton Small fish predatory fish
Water Body/pore water
Me-Mercury
Concentration
Dry DepositionWet Deposition Geologic Sources
(soil, rock, base flow etc.)
Methylation
Hg Hg Hg
Through Fall(wet+dry)
Litter Fall
How Mercury is Wet Deposited?
Hgo
RGMHgp
Hgp
RGM
HgoHgp
RGM
rainout
washout
Oxidation (long lifetime)
Wet depositio
n Mercury sample
D. Gay, Schmeltz, Sharac, Nat. Tribal Conf. for Env. Management, Billings, MT, June 26, 2008, Slide 7
Tribal Lands and Mercury Sources
What is theNADP?
• A Cooperative Research Program (Un. Of Illinois)– Measure wet deposition, dry deposition &
litterfall concentrations of mercury
– North America• Taiwan, Mexico, South America
– Owned and operated by our members– Decisions made by our members– Started in 1978, 35th year
– Over 400,000 precipitation samples
drywet
D. Gay, Schmeltz, Sharac, Nat. Tribal Conf. for Env. Management, Billings, MT, June 26, 2008, Slide 11
Wet Deposition
Mercury Deposition Network (MDN)
Collects one-week precipitation-only sampleswith MDN wet-dry collector
Measures precipitation with gage
AnalysesTotal MercuryMethyl MercuryOther options
Typical Wet Deposition Site (MDN)
Wet Deposition Collection
Mercury Deposition Network
Brief Look at Frontier Geosciences, Analytical
Laboratory
Dry Deposition
drywet
Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS)
Atmospheric Mercury Network (AMNet)
Atmospheric Mercury, Cape Hedo, Okinawa, 2004
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• A New NADP Network
• Measure:– Hg species (Tekran system)– meteorology and land cover
variables
• Elemental mercury (Hg0)• Gaseous oxidized mercury (GOM)• Particulate bound mercury (PBM)
• Estimate Dry Deposition
Coming Soon: Dry Deposition Estimates
• flux (F ) = air concentration x dry deposition velocity (Vd)
F= Vdeposition * Concentrationair
where:
• Ra as aerodynamic resistance, Rb as quasi-laminar resistance, and Rc as canopy resistance
cba
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RRR1 V
Product
• Weekly estimates of dry deposition of – GOM– PBM2.5
• To align with weekly wet deposition values – (wet + dry ~ total)
• Downward dry deposition of GEM– Working & coming soon– No evasion estimate (re-emission)– Not net deposition
Mercury Deposition Network
New Trial Network, Litterfall Mercury
ResultsAnd what can be done with this information
D. Gay, Schmeltz, Sharac, Nat. Tribal Conf. for Env. Management, Billings, MT, June 26, 2008, Slide 30
D. Gay, Schmeltz, Sharac, Nat. Tribal Conf. for Env. Management, Billings, MT, June 26, 2008, Slide 31
D. Gay, Schmeltz, Sharac, Nat. Tribal Conf. for Env. Management, Billings, MT, June 26, 2008, Slide 32
D. Gay, Schmeltz, Sharac, Nat. Tribal Conf. for Env. Management, Billings, MT, June 26, 2008, Slide 33
D. Gay, Schmeltz, Sharac, Nat. Tribal Conf. for Env. Management, Billings, MT, June 26, 2008, Slide 34
Mercury Deposition Network
New NADP Trial Network: Mercury Litterfall
• Started in 2012
• In cooperation with USGSand USGS Mercury Research Lab
• 14 stations (w/MDN)
• Monthly observations (May to Nov)
Network Cost
What Are People Doings with Our
data?
• What factors are affecting fish concentrations of Hg?– Water pH– Total dissolved solids– Dissolved sulfate
• Hg is overwhelmingly deposition
• Overwhelmingly anthropogenic
Wiener et al., 2006Environmental Science and Technology Vol 40 p 6261.
Mercury in Human Hair, By Region
Mercury Deposition Higher in Urban Areas
Gold Mining Locations important to Western Sites
Typical Mercury Concentrations in Fish
Trends In Precipitation Concentration
Questions and Answers
Current Mercury Monitoring Approaches in Tribal Country
David Gay
NADP Program Office, [email protected], http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu, (217) 244-
0462