Mass balance assessment for mercury in Lake Champlain

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 82-89

  Gao, Ning ^a   Armatas, N Gabriel ^a   Shanley, James B ^b   Kamman, Neil C ^c   Miller, Eric K ^d   Keeler, Gerald J ^e   Scherbatskoy, Timothy ^f   Holsen, Thomas M ^g   Young, Thomas ^g   McIlroy, Lyn ^h   Drake, Stephen ^a   Olsen, Bill ^a   Cady, Carol ^a  

^a ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Vermont Agency of Natural Resources   (United States)

^d Ecosystems Research Group Ltd   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^g Clarkson University   (United States)

^h STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; SEDIMENTS; VAPORIZATION;

DRY DEPOSITION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MASS BALANCE;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; LAKE POLLUTION; MASS BALANCE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT SOURCE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DRY DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; LAKE; MASS BALANCE; POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; UNITED STATES; VOLATILIZATION; WATER SAMPLING; WET DEPOSITION;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREAT LAKES REGION; MERCURY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VOLATILIZATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

LAKE CHAMPLAIN; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 30344473614     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050513b     Document Type: Article

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