San Francisco Bay Mercury News - Vol. 2, No. 1

Vol. 2, No. 1

Winter/Spring 2005

Introduction

Welcome to the second issue of the San Francisco Bay Mercury News! The purpose of this electronic newsletter is to foster communication and collaboration among researchers, regulators, and stakeholders by providing summaries of current mercury research activities in the Bay area. For the newsletter, researchers have provided summary paragraphs 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 (SFEI) as part of the Regional Monitoring Program. If you missed the first issue of the newsletter, you can download it from the SFEI web site at

http://www.sfei.org/content/san-francisco-bay-mercury-news-vol-1-no-1

NOTE: Some investigators with currently active studies were not able to submit updated entries for this newsletter. For a more complete picture of current mercury investigations in the Bay-Delta, please refer to both this issue and issue #1.

The second annual San Francisco Bay Wetland Mercury Research Coordination Meeting is rapidly approaching. The meeting will be held this year on February 23rd, 2005 at the San Leandro Marina Inn, 68 San Leandro Marina, San Leandro, California. The meeting will consist of short presentations by a variety of researchers and regulators from 10 am until approximately 4 pm (lunch will be provided). The agenda will be distributed shortly. If you would like to present at this event, please send Meg Sedlak an e-mail at [email protected]. If you would like to register for this event, please send Linda Russo an e-mail at [email protected]. Please RSVP by February 16th, 2005.

SFEI welcomes contributions to the newsletter and is actively seeking new contributors for our next issue that will be distributed
in September 2005. If you have a summary for the newsletter or questions or comments, please e-mail or call Meg Sedlak at SFEI ([email protected] or tel.(510) 746-7345). Also if you did not receive this newsletter from SFEI directly and you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, please visit the SFEI website to register for the San Francisco Bay Mercury News (http://mail.sfei.org/mailman/listinfo/mercury_newsletter). Similarly, if you received this newsletter erroneously, you may unsubscribe by going to our web site.

In this issue

On-going Projects

1. Summary of the Guadalupe River Watershed
   Mercury TMDL Project. Prepared by the Regional Water Quality
   Control Board.
2. Mercury and Dissolved Organic Matter
   in Delta Wetlands. Research conducted by USGS.
3. Mercury Speciation in Tidal Waters,
   Suspended Solids and Sediments from the San Francisco Bay.
   Research conducted by University of Notre Dame.
4. ...