Measurement of atmospheric mercury: Current limitations and suggestions for paths forward

MS Gustin, SM Dunham-Cheatham… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Mercury (Hg) researchers have made progress in understanding atmospheric Hg, especially
with respect to oxidized Hg (HgII) that can represent 2 to 20% of Hg in the atmosphere …

A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes

L Schneider, JA Fisher, MC Diéguez, AH Fostier… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
Recent studies demonstrate a short 3–6-month atmospheric lifetime for mercury (Hg). This
implies Hg emissions are predominantly deposited within the same hemisphere in which …

Mercury isotope evidence for Arctic summertime re-emission of mercury from the cryosphere

BF Araujo, S Osterwalder, N Szponar, D Lee… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
During Arctic springtime, halogen radicals oxidize atmospheric elemental mercury (Hg0),
which deposits to the cryosphere. This is followed by a summertime atmospheric Hg0 peak …

The efficiency of Hg cold vapor generation and its influence on Hg isotope analysis by MC-ICP-MS

M Shi, BA Bergquist, A Zhou, Y Zhao, R Sun… - Journal of Analytical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The application of mercury (Hg) stable isotopes as tracers of Hg biogeochemical cycling
requires high accuracy and precision for Hg isotope analysis. A common method for sample …

Mercury contents and isotope ratios from diverse depositional environments across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary: Towards a more robust mercury proxy for large …

JA Yager, AJ West, AM Thibodeau, FA Corsetti… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mercury is gaining prominence as a proxy for large igneous province (LIP) volcanism in the
sedimentary record. Despite temporal overlap between some mass extinctions and LIPs, the …

Mercury stable isotopes reveal the sources and transformations of atmospheric Hg in the high Arctic

W Zheng, P Chandan, A Steffen, G Stupple… - Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Arctic plays a critical role in the global Hg cycle as both a sink of Hg and, in response to
rapid global warming, an emerging source of Hg due to release from permafrost and …

Contrasting mercury contamination scenarios and site susceptibilities confound fish mercury burdens in Suriname, South America

A Vreedzaam, P Ouboter, AD Hindori-Mohangoo… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In Suriname, mercury (Hg) use has recently increased because of gold mining,
which has put fish-reliant communities (eg, Indigenous and Tribal) at risk of enhanced Hg …

[HTML][HTML] Internal tree cycling and atmospheric archiving of mercury: examination with concentration and stable isotope analyses

DS McLagan, H Biester, T Navrátil, SM Kraemer… - …, 2022 - bg.copernicus.org
Trees predominantly take up mercury (Hg) from the atmosphere via stomatal assimilation of
gaseous elemental Hg (GEM). Hg is oxidised in leaves/needles and transported to other tree …

A peat core Hg stable isotope reconstruction of Holocene atmospheric Hg deposition at Amsterdam Island (37.8 oS)

C Li, M Enrico, O Magand, BF Araujo, G Le Roux… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) stable isotopes have been broadly used to investigate the sources,
transformation and deposition of atmospheric Hg during the industrial era thanks to the …

Online determination of mercury isotopic compositions at ultratrace levels by automated purge and trap coupled with multicollector inductively coupled plasma-mass …

L Yang, B Yu, H Liu, X Ji, C Xiao, Y Liang… - Journal of Analytical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Characterizing natural mercury (Hg) isotopic compositions in geological and environmental
matrices provides a better understanding of the biogeochemical cycles of Hg. However …