FATE OF MERCURY IN THE ARCTIC Michael Evan ... - COGCI

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comprehensively taught later by Dr. Landis and Stevens at US EPA National Exposure Laboratory,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Automatic RGM and total particulate mercury systems
were learned from TEKRAN, Canada.
Other aspects of elemental mercury sampling were learned initially from a course at the Swedish
Environmental Research Institute, IVL, Göteberg, conducted by Dr’s John Munthe, and Ingevar
Wangberg and comprehensively by Dr. Skov at NERI and through the experience gained in setting
up, monitoring, maintaining and recovering, gaseous elemental mercury monitoring stations in the
Faroe Islands, Station Nord, northeast Greenland and Nuuk, west Greenland. The sampling protocol
employed was developed for MET Canada and provided by its authors, Ms. Sandy Steffen and Dr.
W. Schroeder.
The thermodynamics of the proposed mechanism for the oxidation of mercury in the Arctic is
collaboratively developed with Professor John Plane, University of East Anglia and Henrik Skov,
while at a research visit at the University of East Anglia.
Peat research was carried out under the overall supervision of Professor W. Shotyk, formerly of
the University of Berne, and presently at Heidelberg University. Mercury preparation and analyses
were carried out at the University of Berne and the University of Heidelberg after comprehensive
instruction from Dr. Fiona Roos-Barraclough. The idea for trying the bomb pulse in Greenland peat
is credited to Professor Christian Lohse, University of Southern Denmark. Preparation of materials
and radiocarbon dating and analyses were performed at the Danish National Radiocarbon AMS
Laboratory, under the supervision of Professor Jan Heinemeier with additional guidance from
Professor Emeritus Henrik Loft. Additional samples were analysed collaboratively at the University
of Arizona National Science Foundation Radiocarbon AMS Laboratory with guidance from
Professor emeritus Donahue and staff for their time and guidance. Stable lead isotope analyses were