Mercury in the Everglades

Regulation of Mercury Impacts

Effects of Mercury on Human Health

General Background Information

Mercury Effects on Wildlife

MERCURY IN THE EVERGLADES

The U.S. Geological Survey has an extensive South Florida research program which includes a very significant Everglades mercury component. All of the South Florida USGS work may be accessed through its South Florida Information Access web page. USGS biogeochemical research is discussed under Aquatic Cycling of Mercury in the Everglades (ACME) which has been extended as Mercury Cycling in the Everglades Nutrient Removal Areas. The reference describes ongoing ACME research and gives results, publications and related links. ACME material may also be accessed from an alternate site.  The USGS South Florida Information Access, includes discussions on mercury in relation to Everglades restoration and mercury in relation to the Everglades food web.

Methylmercury Risk to Everglades Wading Birds: A Probabilistic Risk Assessment, November 1, 1999. This is an assessment of the risk to Everglades wading birds from eating mercury contaminated prey fish. It is an appendix to the Year 2000, Everglades Consolidated Report.[Listed 1/13/00]. Criticisms of this risk assessment are also included in the Appendix.

The risk assessment is an appendix to, Chapter 7: The Everglades Mercury Problem, contained in the Year 2000, Everglades Consolidated Report of the South Florida Water Management District, which contains a broad-ranging discussion of mercury in the Everglades and its relation to efforts to remedy nutrient pollution by farm runoff and to restore more natural hydroperiods to the Everglades. [Listed 1/13/00]

Florida’s Mercury Menace from Florida State University Research in Review. A discussion of the history of the Florida mercury problem and recent atmospheric research. [Listed11/99]