Mercury in waters of the Derwent Estuary - Sample treatment and analysis

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 177-185

  Plaschke, Ron ^a   Dal Pont, Giacomo ^a   Butler, Edward C V ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analysis; Estuaries; Mercury; Pollution; Sampling; Speciation

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; AUSTRALIA; ESTUARY; SEA POLLUTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TECHNIQUE; WATER SAMPLING;

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; ESTUARINE CHEMISTRY; ESTUARY WATER QUALITY; MERCURY; SAMPLING; SINK; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, DERWENT ESTUARY;

EID: 0030619291     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-326X(96)00085-9     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Australian Standard AS 2051 (1977). Recommendations for the Sampling and Analysis of Waters for Heavy Metals with Special Reference to Mercury. Standards Association of Australia.
2. Ambe, M. & Suwabe, K. (1977). The preparation of standard solutions of mercury at the p.p.b. level. Analyt. Chim. Acta 92, 55-60.
3. ANZECC (1992). Australian Water Quality Guidelines for Fresh ana Marine Waters. Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council, National Water Quality Management Strategy.
4. Baeyens, W., Decadt, G., Dehairs, F. & Goeyens, L. (1982). An automated method for the assessment of mercury adsorption rates on particulate suspended matter. Ocean. Acta 5(3), 261-264.
5. Baeyens, W., Gillain, G., Decadt, G. & Elskens, I. (1987). Trace metals in the eastern part of the North Sea. 1: Analyses and shortterm distributions. Ocean. Acta 10(2), 169-179.
6. Bloom, H. & Ayling, G. M. (1977). Heavy metals in the Derwent Estuary. Environ. Geol. 2, 3-22.
7. Bloom, N. S. & Crecelius, E. A. (1983). Determination of mercury in seawater at sub-nanogram per liter levels. Mar. Chem. 14, 49-59.
8. Bothner, M. H. & Robertson, D. E. (1975). Mercury contamination of seawater samples stored in polythene containers. Anal. Chem. 47(3) 592-595.
9. Carr, R. A. & Wilkniss, P. E. (1973). Mercury: short-term storage of natural waters. Environ. Sci. Tech. 7(1), 62-63.
10. Carron, J. & Agemian, H. (1977). Preservation of sub-p.p.b. levels of mercury in distilled and natural fresh waters. Analyt. Chim. Acta 92, 61-70.
11. Cossa, D., Sanjuan, J. & Noel, J. (1994). Mercury transport in waters of the Strait of Dover. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 28(6), 385-388.
12. Dal Pont, G. & Major, G. A. (1978). Determination of mercury in seawater using Tin II reduction and syringe injection atomic absorption. CSIRO Division of Fisheries and Oceanography, Report No. 83.
13. DELM (1996). Tasmanian State of the Environment Report. Dept. Environment and Land Management, Tasmania (in press).
14. Dix, T. G., Martin, A., Ayling, G. M., Wilson, K. & Ratkowsky, D. A. (1975). Sand flathead (Platycephalus bassenis), an indicator species for mercury pollution in Tasmanian waters. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 6, 142-144.
15. Fitzgerald, W. F. & Lyons, W. B. (1975). Mercury concentrations in open-ocean waters: sampling procedure. Limnol. Oceanogr. 20, 468-471.
16. Fitzgerald, W. F. & Watras, C. J. (1989). Mercury in surficial waters of rural Wisconsin lakes. Sci. Total Environ. 87/88, 223-232.
17. Frenet-Robin, M. & Ottmann, F. (1978). Comparative study of the fixation of inorganic mercury on the principal clay minerals and the sediments the Loire Estuary. Est. Coast. Mar. Sci. 7, 425-436.
18. Gardner, D. & Dal Pont, G. (1979). A rapid, simple method for the determination of total mercury in fish and hair by cold-vapour atomic absorption spectrometry. Analyt. Chim. Acta 108, 13-20.
19. Gill, G. A. & Fitzgerald, W. F. (1985). Mercury sampling of open ocean waters at the picomolar level. Deep-Sea Res. 32(3), 287-297.
20. Hamlin, S. N. (1989). Preservation of samples for dissolved mercury. Wat. Res. Bull. 25(2), 255-261.
21. Hanslow, S. (1994). Heavy metal accumulation and remobilisation in Derwent Estuary bottom sediments. Graduate Diploma of Environmental Studies (Hons), University of Tasmania.
22. HECEC/Tasuni Research Joint Venture (1989). Derwent River sludge pollution. Technical Report, March, 1989.
23. Langlois, D., Cooper, R. J., Clark, N. H. & Ratkowsky, D. A. (1987). The effect of a mercury containment programme at a zinc smelting plant on the mercury content of sand flathead in the Derwent Estuary. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 18(2), 67-70.
24. Leermakers, M., Lansens, P. & Baeyens, W. (1990). Storage and stability of inorganic and methylmercury solutions. Fresenius J. Anal. Chem. 336, 655-662.
25. Mason, R. P., Fitzgerald, W. F., Hurley, J., Hanson, A. K., Donaghay, P. L. & Sieburth, J. M. (1993). Mercury biogeochemical cycling in a stratified estuary. Limnol. Oceanogr. 38(6), 1227-1241.
26. Matsunaga, K., Konishi, S. & Nishimura, M. (1979). Possible errors caused prior to measurement of mercury in natural waters with special reference to seawater. Environ. Sci. Tech. 13(1), 63-65.
27. Nelson, L. A. (1981). Mercury in the Thames Estuary. Environ. Tech. Lett. 2, 225-232.
28. Nguyen, V. D., Kniewald, G. & Branica, M. (1994). Distribution of mercury between electrolyte and natural bentonite. Mar. Chem. 46, 33-47.
29. Noller, B. N., Bloom, H., Dineen, R. D., Johnson, M. G. & Hammond, R. P. (1993). Effective monitoring of pollution by toxic trace elements in waters, sediments and biota of the Derwent Estuary, Tasmania, through long-term retention of analytical facilities. Environ. Monitor. Assess. 28, 161-181.
30. Schmidt, D. (1992). Mercury in Baltic and North Sea waters. Wat. Air Soil Pollut. 62, 43-55.
31. Stainton, M. P. (1971). Syringe procedure for transfer of nanogram quantities of mercury vapour for flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Anal. Chem. 43(4), 625-627.
32. Thomson, J. D. & Godfrey, J. S. (1985). Circulation dynamics in the Derwent Estuary. Aust. J. Mar. Freshw. Res. 36, 765-772.
33. Weiss, H. V., Shipman, W. H. & Guttman, M. A. (1976). Effective storage of dilute mercury solutions in polyethylene. Analyt. Chim. Acta 81, 211-217.