Responses of deposition and bioaccumulation in the Great Lakes region to policy and other large-scale drivers of mercury emissions
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-23-2018
Department
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering; Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences; Department of Social Sciences
Abstract
Mercury (Hg) emissions pose a global problem that requires global cooperation for a solution. However, neither emissions nor regulations are uniform world-wide, and hence the impacts of regulations are also likely to vary regionally. We report here an approach to model the effectiveness of regulations at different scales (local, regional, global) in reducing Hg deposition and fish Hg concentrations in the Laurentian Great Lakes (GL) region. The potential effects of global change on deposition are also modeled. We focus on one of the most vulnerable communities within the region, an Indigenous tribe in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UP) with a high fish consumption rate. For the GL region, elements of global change (climate, biomass burning, land use) are projected to have modest impacts (
Publication Title
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
Recommended Citation
Perlinger, J.,
Urban, N. R.,
Hendricks, A.,
Zhang, H.,
Kumar, A.,
Wu, S.,
Gorman, H.,
&
et. al.
(2018).
Responses of deposition and bioaccumulation in the Great Lakes region to policy and other large-scale drivers of mercury emissions.
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts,
20(1), 195-209.
http://doi.org/10.1039/C7EM00547D
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