Figure 1: APMMN site map showing the 15 countries where wet deposition of mercury has been monitored. The Asia Pacific Mercury Monitoring Network (APMMN) cooperates with government agencies, academic institutions, and scientific research organisations.
Rum Jungle, 60 km from Darwin in the Northern Territory, was once famous for its uranium mine. From 1953 to 1962, copper, lead, and silver were extracted from the 200-hectare mine site. The mine finally
The Burdekin catchment, with an area of 133,600 km2, is in tropical North Queensland and is the largest source of suspended sediment released to the Great Barrier Reef. During the wet season, flooding dislodges and
Poet T. S. Eliot, his mind fixed on human salvation whilst in the midst of misery wrought by WWII, penned: We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be
Expressions of Interest close on the 10th of October 2022. A doctoral scholarship awarded to an outstanding candidate to undertake environmental research on Sub-Antarctic Islands This committed PhD scholarship will be awarded to a
Observations of background levels of atmospheric mercury are important to help inform modelling of land-ocean-atmosphere interactions and the role the Australian region plays in global mercury cycling. Continuous measurement of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM), which
Elevated mercury concentrations in the surface environment continues to attract increasing research attention worldwide. Like many heavy metals, anthropogenic mercury in the environment today may have a complicated and often unknown story of how it
This workshop introduced participants to the new R-Package, PLUM, a novel approach to age-depth modelling that uses Bayesian statistics to reconstruct accumulation histories for 210Pb-dated deposits using prior information. It can combine 210Pb, 14C, and
As many members of the Mercury Australia team have previously found, many waterways around the world are experiencing increasing levels of mercury. High mercury levels in waterways lead to dire environmental and public health consequences.
Mercury (Hg) is a toxic heavy metal that has gained recent attention in Australia during the last few years, especially as Australia’s commitment to the Minamata Convention (focused on reducing anthropogenic release of Hg into
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