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

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are grateful to A.K. Cheburkin for all of the XRF analyses, W.O. van der Knaap for
identifying plant macrofossils, W. Rom for help with the atmospheric bomb pulse curve, and S.
Reese for the 14 C age dates obtained by decay counting of the basal peat layers. Thanks also to
C. Ihrig for supplementary measurements of bulk density and to G. LeRoux and N. Givelet for
helpful suggestions which have led to considerable improvement in our peat sample handling
and preparation protocol. For fruitful discussions, W.S. thanks A. Martinez-Cortizas, N. Givelet,
and G. LeRoux; thanks also to H.L. Nielsen, the reviewers, and M. Novak for comments which
helped to considerably improve the manuscript. This investigation was supported by the Swiss
National Science Foundation (to W.S. at the University of Berne) and the Danish Cooperation
for Environment in the Arctic (DANCEA) to M.E.G. Additional support was provided by GKSS,
Germany (thanks to H. von Storch), and the Carlsberg Foundation (to C. Lohse). M.E.G. wishes
to acknowledge the advice, guidance, and support of C. Lohse and T.S. Hansen for helping to
launch the project, the expert technical assistance of T. Nørnberg and P.B. Hansen, and B.
Odgaard and B. Aaby for helpful discussions about Danish bogs. M. E. G. was subsequently
supported by the Danish Research Agency and The Department of Atmospheric Environment
of Denmark (NERI) with a PhD fellowship at the Copenhagen Global Change Initiative
(COGCI), University of Copenhagen (special thanks to Ole John Nielsen, Henrik Skov and Steve
E. Lindberg for their supervision and guidance). Thanks also to the Danish Polar Centre,
Greenland Homerule, Director of Environment, Greenland Office of Tourism, Greenland
National Museum and Archive, and the Municipality and inhabitants of Narsaq. Finally, special
thanks to B.E. Haas for improving the English, and the usual message from W.S..
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