Project Title: |
Comparison of mercury in atmospheric deposition and in fish across the continental gradient of atmospheric deposition of mercury |
Start Date: |
2005 |
End Date: |
2008 |
Location: |
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and coastal Oregon and Washington |
Funding Source: |
National Park Service/USGS Water Quality
Partnership Program |
Contact: |
John Colman |
Project or Related Reports: |
A report is in progress.
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Figure 1. Wet deposition rates in the United States in 2004, from the Mercury Deposition Network.
Figure 2. Mercury wet deposition collector at the Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts.
Figure 3. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection personnel collecting yellow perch from a gill net set in Ryder Pond, one of 20 kettle-hole lakes in the Cape Cod National Seashore, May 23, 2006. Photo credits Alice Colman
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U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
