Dataset: Total dissolved gaseous mercury in surface waters and in the atmosphere collected aboard the R/V Kilo Moana in the tropical Pacific Ocean from October 2011.

Data not availableVersion 0 (2019-03-27)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Robert P. Mason (University of Connecticut)

Co-Principal Investigator: William Fitzgerald (University of Connecticut)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Mathew Biddle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Project: Collaborative Research: Interwoven biogeochemical cycles and biological transformations of mercury and selenium in the upper ocean (Mercury and Selenium)

Cite Dataset

The data include measurements of total dissolved gaseous mercury in surface waters and in the atmosphere, both primarily elemental Hg (Hg(0)), in the tropical Pacific Ocean in 2011. 

The samples were collected on a separately funded cruise (Metzyme cruise) and details are available at:
www.bco-dmo.org/deployment/59053

Data from the CTD deployed can be found at: www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/716469

Data on the nutrient concentrations for each sample depth can be found at: www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/646115

Data on the selenium concentrations for each sample depth can be found at: www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/74939

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Related Publications

General
Gosnell, K. J., & Mason, R. P. (2015). Mercury and methylmercury incidence and bioaccumulation in plankton from the central Pacific Ocean. Marine Chemistry, 177, 772–780. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2015.07.005
General
Mason, R.P., Hammerschmidt, C.R., Lamborg, C.H., Bowman, K.L., Swarr, G.J., Shelley, R.U. 2017. The air-sea exchange of mercury in the low latitude Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Deep-Sea Research I 122: 17-28. 10.1016/j.dsr.2017.01.015
General
Munson, K. M., Lamborg, C. H., Swarr, G. J., & Saito, M. A. (2015). Mercury species concentrations and fluxes in the Central Tropical Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29(5), 656–676. doi:10.1002/2015gb005120
General
Soerensen, A. L., Mason, R. P., Balcom, P. H., & Sunderland, E. M. (2013). Drivers of Surface Ocean Mercury Concentrations and Air–Sea Exchange in the West Atlantic Ocean. Environmental Science & Technology, 47(14), 7757–7765. doi:10.1021/es401354q
Methods
Andersson, M. E., Gårdfeldt, K., & Wängberg, I. (2008). A description of an automatic continuous equilibrium system for the measurement of dissolved gaseous mercury. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 391(6), 2277–2282. doi:10.1007/s00216-008-2127-4

Mason, R. P., Fitzgerald, W. (2019) Total dissolved gaseous mercury in surface waters and in the atmosphere collected aboard the R/V Kilo Moana in the tropical Pacific Ocean from October 2011.. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 0) Version Date 2019-03-27 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/763650 [access date]

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