Tracking the fate of mercury in the fish and bottom sediments of Minamata bay, Japan, using stable mercury isotopes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5399-5406

  Balogh, Steven J ^a,b   Tsui, Martin Tsz Ki ^c   Blum, Joel D ^d   Matsuyama, Akito ^e   Woerndle, Glenn E ^c   Yano, Shinichiro ^f   Tada, Akihide ^g  

^a Moyau Consulting Engineering and Science   (United States)

^b Metropolitan Council Environmental Services   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; SURFACE WATERS;

BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; FISH AND SHELLFISHES; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE; TOTAL MERCURIES;

SEDIMENTS;

MERCURY; WATER POLLUTANT;

FISH; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; NEUROLOGY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SHELLFISH; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACKING; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BAY; BENTHOS; DREDGING; FISH; FOOD WEB; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; JAPAN; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PHOTODEGRADATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SEA; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURFACE AREA; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; WATER POLLUTANT;

JAPAN; KUMAMOTO; KYUSHU; MINAMATA BAY; YATSUSHIRO BAY;

ANIMALS; BAYS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; JAPAN; MERCURY; MERCURY ISOTOPES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84928905721     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00631     Document Type: Article

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