Sunday, 5 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, General Assembly Theater Hall C

Presiding:

David P. Krabbenhoft and Robert P. Mason

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:15 AM

137-1

Exposure to Methylmercury: Emerging Demographic and Geographic Patterns

Kathryn R. Mahaffey, Boston University

8:30 AM

137-2

Mercury Exposure in Anglers and Attendees of a Coastal Alabama Fishing Tournament

Kimberly A. Warner, Oceana

8:45 AM

137-3

Mercury Isotope Evidence for Contrasting Mercury Sources to Coastal Versus Offshore Marine Fish

Joel D. Blum, University of Michigan; David B. Senn, Harvard University; Edward J. Chesney, Louisiana Universities; James P. Shine, Harvard University

9:00 AM

137-4

Biogeochemical Controls on MeHg Production in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Region

Terill A. Hollweg, University of Connecticut; Cynthia C. Gilmour, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Robert P. Mason, University of Connecticut

9:15 AM

137-5

Defining �Reactive' Inorganic Mercury and Its Relationship to Microbial Methylmercury Formation in Aquatic Ecosystem Studies

Mark Marvin-DiPasquale, U.S. Geological Survey

9:30 AM

137-6

Mercury Dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico: Insights from Biogeochemical Studies

David B. Senn, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag); Robert P. Mason, University of Connecticut; Bian Liu, Harvard University; Laurel A. Schaider, Harvard University; Michael S. Bank, Harvard University; Nancy N. Rabalais, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium; Terill A. Hollweg, University of Connecticut; James P. Shine, Harvard University; Peter W. Swarzenski, U.S. Geological Survey

9:45 AM

Break

10:00 AM

137-7

Sediment Methylmercury Concentrations and Production Rates in Contrasting Coastal Wetlands of Chequamegon Bay (WI), Lake Superior

Jacob Ogorek, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; K. Rolfhus, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; R. Haro, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; J. Wiener, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

10:15 AM

137-8

The Effect of Bioirrigation on Sediment-Water Exchange of Methylmercury in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, USA

Janina M. Benoit, Wheaton College; David H. Shull, Western Washington University; Samuel A. Beal, Wheaton College

10:30 AM

137-9

Paper Withdrawn

10:45 AM

137-10

Wetlands as Sources of Total and Methyl Hg to Coastal Floodplain/Estuarine Systems in South Carolina

Jane L. Guentzel, Coastal Carolina University

11:00 AM

137-11

Mercury Isotopic Composition of Marine Sediments in the Baltic Sea

G.E. Gehrke, University of Michigan; J.D. Blum, University of Michigan

11:15 AM

137-12

Sulfide-Driven Precipitation of Mercury Sulfide Nanoparticles In the Presence of Natural Organic Matter

Aaron Slowey, U. S. Geological Survey; Benjamin Gilbert, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; George Aiken, U.S. Geol Survey; Joseph Ryan, University of Colorado

11:30 AM

137-13

Patterns of Atmospheric Elemental and Reactive Gaseous Hg Concentrations in the Central and Eastern United States: Comparison of Inland and Coastal Sites

Mark A. Engle, U.S. Geological Survey; Michael T. Tate, U.S. Geological Survey; David P. Krabbenhoft, U.S. Geological Survey; James J. Schauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison; James B. Shanley

11:45 AM

Concluding Remarks

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