BioDiversity Research Institute

Visit the project’s funding organization:
the Great Lakes Air Deposition Program
(part of the Great Lakes Commission)

Supplementary information on
the Great Lakes Mercury Project:

MercNet Monitoring Inventory

UPDATED! Proposed Timeline for Project

2010 Workshop Announcement

Project Collaborators

MercNet 2008 Workshop Report

Integrating Multimedia Measurements of Mercury in the Great Lakes Region

What's New

2010 Project Workshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan
The second Great Lakes Mercury Project Workshop will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on July 13-15, 2010. At the workshop, lead authors will present conference-quality summaries of their draft manuscripts, and share the draft manuscripts with coauthors and workgroups for informal peer review.

WORKSHOP AGENDA

WORKSHOP LOGISTICS

MercNet Monitoring Inventory is online! Click here to check out the new mercury meta-database. The Great Lakes Project has been a huge part of this effort!

2010 Project Deadline
The project timeline has been updated to reflect the new 2010 workshop and manuscript development schedule. All lead authors on project manuscripts must submit the following by January 15th: 1) title of proposed manuscript; 2) author bylines; 3) manuscript outline. Please send to Jim, Dave and Kate (email addresses at the bottom of page).

GLAD expansion proposal approved
The GLAD program recently approved a substantial increase int he size of the Great Lakes Mercury Project, which will allow us to include over 100 collaborators from 49 institutions as we compile data and prepare manuscripts for publication. Collaborators in this project will publish almost 40 papers in special issues of two peer-reviewed scientific journals, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Pollution. Click here for the most recent list of target manuscripts.

Project impetus and goals

Mercury poses a significant threat to the health of humans and wildlife in the Great Lakes region. Existing data on mercury are dispersed among individual monitoring programs, research laboratories, governmental agencies, and other institutions.  The collaborative Project for Integrating Multimedia Measurements of Mercury in the Great Lakes, sponsored by the Great Lakes Atmospheric Deposition (GLAD) Program, is working to facilitate the accessibility of this data.  The project will compile a wide variety of mercury data for the Great Lakes region and analyze these data to address key questions about environmental mercury contamination and the exposure and effects on fish and wildlife. 

Geographic Focus

This project includes the province of Ontario, the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and the bodies of water located entirely or partially within these geographic boundaries.

Project Contacts