Dataset: [DEPRECATED] Particulate total mercury and particulate monomethylmercury concentrations from the Western Arctic Ocean, which were sampled by McLane pumps during he 2015 US GEOTRACES Cruise (GN01; HLY1502)

ValidatedDeprecatedVersion 1 (2018-07-10)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Carl Lamborg (University of California-Santa Cruz)

Co-Principal Investigator: Chad Hammerschmidt (Wright State University)

Contact: Alison Agather (Wright State University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Program: U.S. GEOTRACES (U.S. GEOTRACES)

Project: U.S. Arctic GEOTRACES Study (GN01) (U.S. GEOTRACES Arctic)

Project: Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Arctic Section: Mercury Speciation and Cycling in the Arctic Ocean (GEOTRACES Arctic Mercury)

Cite Dataset

This dataset includes particulate total mercury and particulate monomethylmercury concentrations from the Western Arctic Ocean, which were sampled as part of the 2015 US GEOTRACES Cruise (GN01; HLY1502). Samples were collected with McLane pumps, size fractionated between 1 and 51 um.

Status note (2020-10-28): This dataset has been replaced. Use the following dataset instead: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/827530

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Replaced by New Version
Dataset: GN01 Dissolved and Particulate Mercury
Relationship Description: "GN01 Particulate Mercury" and "GN01 Dissolved Mercury Species" have been updated and replaced by a single dataset containing both particulate and dissolved mercury species.
Lamborg, C., Hammerschmidt, C. (2021) Concentrations of dissolved and particulate mercury species collected on the US GEOTRACES Arctic cruise (HLY1502, GN01) from August to October 2015. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 2) Version Date 2021-02-03 doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.827530.2

Related Publications

Methods
Bishop, J. K. B., Lam, P. J., & Wood, T. J. (2012). Getting good particles: Accurate sampling of particles by large volume in-situ filtration. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 10(9), 681–710. doi:10.4319/lom.2012.10.681
Methods
Bloom, N. (1989). Determination of Picogram Levels of Methylmercury by Aqueous Phase Ethylation, Followed by Cryogenic Gas Chromatography with Cold Vapour Atomic Fluorescence Detection. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 46(7), 1131–1140. doi:10.1139/f89-147
Methods
Bloom, N., & Fitzgerald, W. F. (1988). Determination of volatile mercury species at the picogram level by low-temperature gas chromatography with cold-vapour atomic fluorescence detection. Analytica Chimica Acta, 208, 151–161. doi:10.1016/s0003-2670(00)80743-6
Methods
Fitzgerald, W. F., & Gill, G. A. (1979). Subnanogram determination of mercury by two-stage gold amalgamation and gas phase detection applied to atmospheric analysis. Analytical Chemistry, 51(11), 1714–1720. doi:10.1021/ac50047a030
Methods
Hammerschmidt, C. R., & Fitzgerald, W. F. (2006). Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer of Methylmercury in Long Island Sound. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 51(3), 416–424. doi:10.1007/s00244-005-0265-7

Lamborg, C., Hammerschmidt, C. (2018) [DEPRECATED] Particulate total mercury and particulate monomethylmercury concentrations from the Western Arctic Ocean, which were sampled by McLane pumps during he 2015 US GEOTRACES Cruise (GN01; HLY1502). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2018-07-10 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/738307 [access date]

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