Web Resources

Aquatic Network
This site contains information on aquaculture, conservation, fisheries, limnology, marine science and oceanography, maritime heritage, ocean engineering, and seafood.

Canada Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network
EMAN has put the entire proceedings from a 1995 conference on mercury on this page. There are many scientific abstracts from presentations at the conference dealing with the risks, causes, and current levels of mercury contamination.

Ecology Action Center (EAC)
EAC's page includes a searchable library containing close to 10,000 catalogued items. The information is in various forms, including: books, government documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, periodicals and newsletters, pesticide permits, video and audio tapes, and environmental assessment materials. A search on mercury brought up several useful factsheets.

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
EPRI puts its news releases, research and development plan, and reports on its web site. They have also compiled a set of links to web sites for the utilities which are members of EPRI.

Environmental Health Perspectives
This is location of the search form for abstracts from the journal dating from 1974 to the present. A search under the phase "mercury contamination" produced 100 documents.

HealthWeb
HealthWeb provides a searchable set of links to web resources containing health information.

International Joint Commission Health Professionals Task Force
Brief summaries of the scientific literature on human health effects and environmental pollutants with an emphasis on pollutants within the Great Lakes ecosystem.

Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ)
LDEQ has written a summary of issues related to mercury contamination of fish. This page is Louisiana oriented, but it has a good overview of the sources of mercury contamination and the health risks associated with elevated mercury levels.

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
Massachusetts DEP has posted all of its publications and information on mercury to its site, including the reports "Mercury in Massachusetts: An Evaluation of Sources" and "Fish Mercury Distribution in Massachusetts Lakes - Final Report."

The Mercury Amalgam-Related Illness Site
While this site focuses on dental amalgams it also information on other sources of mercury exposure and a very comprehensive description of health risks from mercury contamination.

The Mercury Deposition Network (MDN)
MDN, a subnetwork of The National Atmospheric Deposition Program, is developing a regional database on the weekly concentrations of total mercury in precipitation and the seasonal and annual flux of total mercury in wet deposition. MDN produced some very nice Transition Phase Summary Charts which show the preliminary results of their data collection.

The Mercury Page
This individual's mercury page in Sweden has information on many aspects of mercury. It contains many links to mercury studies and information on the web.

Mercury Research Page
This page has links to several environmental mercury studies and mercury sites. While not an exhaustive list, this page is a good starting point for connecting to basic mercury information.

Right to Know Network
This site provides access to numerous quantitative databases, including the Toxic Release Inventory and offers information on toxic releases, housing and the environment.

Sea Grant Media Center
Links to scientists working in the field of heavy metal environmental contamination and public health.

University of Minnesota Mercury Research Program
Dr. Ed Nater's page discusses his diverse mercury projects, which span the terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric realms. Basic mercury information as well as the technical findings of his projects is included in this site.

University of North Dakota - Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC)
Their Center for Air Toxic Metals (CATM) has downloadable databases on air toxics, and the EERC has multiple reports on the environmental impacts of energy usage.

 

Print Resources

National

"The Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury: Anthropogenic Influences, "Mason et al, 1994. Printed in Geochim.

"Cognitive Deficit in 7 - Year-Old Children with Prenatal Exposure to Methylmercury," Grandjean, Philippe et al., 1997. Printed in Neurotoxicology and Teratology, Vol. 19.

"The Declining Presence of Mercury in Batteries and Municipal Solid Waste," National Electrical Manufacturers Association, 1994. Available from the NEMA at (703) 841-3200 or www.nema.org

"Effects of Acidification on the Availability of Toxic Metals and Calcium to Wild Birds and Mammals," Scheuhammer, A.M., 1991. Printed in Environmental Pollution, Vol. 7.

"Electric Utility Trace Substances Synthesis Report, Vol. 3," Electric Power Research Institute, 1994. Available from EPRI at (650) 855-2000 or www.epri.com.

"Environmental Factors Affecting the Formation of Methylmercury in Low pH Lakes," Winfrey, Micheal R., and Rudd, John W. M., 1990. Printed in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vol. 9.

"Environmental Health Criteria 101," World Health Organization, 1990. Available from the WHO at +41-22-791-3548 or www.who.ch.

"Generations at Risk: How Environmental Toxins May Affect Reproductive Health in Massachusetts," Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, October 1996. Available from GBPSR at (617) 876-4277 or www.igc.apc.org/psr/index.html.

"Household Batteries and the Environment", Ray Balfour, Rayovac, Inc., 1995. Available from Rayovac at (800) 237-7000 or www.rayovac.com/didefault.html.

"Locating and Estimating Air Emission from Sources of Mercury and Mercury Compounds," Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, , EPA-454/R-97-012, December, 1997. Available at from EPA at (919) 541-2777 or www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42etc.html.

"Mercury as a Global Pollutant," D.B. Porcella, J.W. Huckabee, and B. Wheatley editors. Printed in Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 80 (1-4), 1995

"Mercury Atmospheric Processes: A Synthesis Report ," Electric Power Research Institute, Report No. TR-104214, 1994. Available from EPRI at (650) 855-2000 or www.epri.com.

"The Mercury Menace," newspaper series appearing in Portland Herald. Available at www.portland.com/mercury/loons.htm.

"Mercury Study Report to Congress, Executive Summary," Environmental Protection Agency, December, 1997 (incomplete). The revised Mercury Study Report to Congress Executive Summary is available from EPA at (919) 541-2777 or www.epa.gov/airlinks

"Northern States and Eastern Canadian Provinces Mercury Study: A Framework for Action," Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, February, 1998. Available from NESCAUM at (617) 367-8540.

"The Seychelles Study of Fetal Methylmercury Exposure and Child Development: Introduction," Marsh, David O. et al. 1995. Printed in NeuroToxicology and Teratology, Vol. 16.

 

State

"Airborne Mercury Deposition and Watershed Characteristics in Relation to Mercury Concentrations in Water, Sediments, Plankton, and Fish of Eighty Northern Minnesota Lakes," Sorensen, et al. 1990. Printed in Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 24, No. 11.

"Ohio's Mercury Menace," National Wildlife Federation, December, 1997. Available from NWF at (734) 769-3351 or www.nwf.org/greatlakes.

"Troubled Waters: Mercury in Wisconsin Lakes and Fish," Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, forthcoming. Will be available from WED at (608) 251-7020.

"Wisconsin Mercury Sourcebook (Draft),"Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 1997. Available from WI DNR at (608) 266-2621.

"Mercury in Wisconsin's Environment, A Status Report," Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 1996. Available from WI DNR at (608) 266-2621.

 

Additional Related Web Resources

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Toxic Fact Sheets
These fact sheets provide introductory information on many hazardous substances including mercury, benzene, lead and PCBs.

Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)
Canada's DFO has posted its entire study on "Mercury Contamination of Northern Shrimp in the Saguenay Fjord" to this site. It contains the history of the closing of shrimping in the area and why the fjord is still at risk.

The Department of Defense Relative Risk Evaluations (DoD)
DoD provides a listing of the EPA soil and water Toxicity and Carcinogenicity standards for over 500 chemical compounds.

The Department of the Interior (DOI)
DOI's Natural Resource Library (NRL) is an information resource for containing over 950,000 documents from sources including journals, magazines, newspapers, regulations, legal texts, scientific abstracts and maps.

Environmental Impact Analysis Data Links (by USGS)
This page has links to government and private online environmental datasets organized by topic.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA posts report summaries, Federal Register information, and press releases to its main page. For information on air toxics emission factors including the entire series of publications on "Locating and Estimating Air Toxic Emissions" go to http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ ap42etc.html. To retrieve information on the Great Lakes toxics monitoring program visit http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/air/Iadn5.htm. For fish and wildlife advisories including fact sheets, a downloadable searchable database, and maps go to http://www.epa.gov/OST/ fishadvice.

The National Toxicology Program (NTP)
NTP's searchable database includes study abstracts taken directly from published reports which span many years, from the 1970s through the 1990s.