Vol. 1, No. 1

Fall 2004

Introduction

Welcome to the first issue of the San Francisco Bay Mercury News!

This electronic newsletter will be issued bi-annually and is intended to be a compilation of mercury research activities currently underway in the Bay Area. Each researcher has provided a summary paragraph regarding the purpose of their research and recently accomplished milestones. Contact information follows each project summary. The newsletter is distributed by the San Francisco Estuary Institute as part of the Regional Monitoring Program. A table of contents follows this introduction. To move directly to a description of a project listed in the table of contents, click on the title.Alternatively, you can browse through the entire newsletter by scrolling down. The next issue of the SF Bay Mercury News will be released the first week of February 2005.

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In this issue

On-going Projects

1. Evaluation of Hg Transformations and Trophic Transfer in the SF Bay/Delta: Identifying Critical
Processes for the Ecosystem Restoration Program. An investigation by USGS, University of Maryland and SUNY-Stony Brook.

2. A Pilot Program for Monitoring, Stakeholder Involvement, and Risk Communication Relating to Hg in Fish in the Bay-Delta Watershed (CBDA Fish Hg Pilot Program). Project led by SFEI, UC Davis, Moss Landing Marine Lab, Cal DHS, and Cal OEHHA.

3. Concentration and Production of Methylmercury in Wetlands in the Bay. Research project by US Army Corps of Engineers.

4. Description of UCSC’s Hg Studies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Recent Publications.

5. Wetland Design and Management Options for Control of Hg in SF Bay. LFR Levine-Fricke and WIGS Laboratory at UCSC.

6. Mercury and Methylmercury Processes in North San Francisco Bay Tidal Wetland Ecosystems. Project led by SFEI.

7. Status Report on Guadalupe River Watershed Mercury TMDL.

8. UCDavis Study of Bioavailability of Mercury and Production of Methyl Mercury in Stege Marsh and Walker Creek Estuary.

9. Annual Monitoring for Hg and Other Contaminant Concentrations and Loads in the Guadalupe River Watershed, San Jose, CA. A study by SFEI.

10.Montezuma Wetlands Project. Comprehensive Monitoring...