Session: Mercury in the Environment (30th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/First Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences)

Friday, 1 June 2012: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Press Room (Omni Parker House)

Hosts: (Joint between the First Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences; and the 30th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology )

Chairs:

Helen Amos, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences / Jacob Group, Cambridge, MA and Elsie M. Sunderland, Harvard University, School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA

Papers:

10:30 AM

9.1

Mercury Pollution in the Amazon: Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining or Land-Use Changes?

Bridget A. Bergquist, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. Adler Miserendino, S. Ghosh, J. R. D. Guimarães, E. K. Silbergeld, and P. Lees

10:50 AM

9.2

Terrestrial Mercury (Hg) surface reservoirs: magnitude, spatial patterns, fate, and re-emission potential to the atmosphere

Daniel Obrist, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV

Recorded Presentation

11:10 AM

9.3

Global model of atmosphere-terrestrial mercury exchange and accumulation of historical mercury in organic soils

Elizabeth S. Corbitt, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and N. Smith-Downey, D. J. Jacob, and E. M. Sunderland

11:30 AM

9.4

Global source of mercury from commercial products and its biogeochemical cycling