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Working Group Report on Oceanic Mercury Cycling

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Global and Regional Mercury Cycles: Sources, Fluxes and Mass Balances

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This report will provide a summary of the discussions and conclusions of the Ocean Working Group concerning the current knowledge of mercury in the ocean and its fate and transport between the oceanic reservoir and other compartments. Because of the generality of the discussions, the report will not refer to individual publications directly; rather a comprehensive list of recent relevant publications is appended at the end of the report.

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  1. Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, Solomons, MD, 20688, USA

    R. P. Mason (Chairperson)

  2. Russian Academy of Sciences, 35 Staromonetny Pereulok, 109017, Moscow, Russia

    N. A. Ozerova (Co-Chair)

  3. National Institute for Minamata Disease, 4058-18, Hanta, Minamata, Kumamoto, 867, Japan

    H. Akagi

  4. IFREMER, BP 1105, F 44311, Nantes, France

    D. Cossa

  5. Dept. Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, 06340, USA

    W. F. Fitzgerald

  6. Marine Environmental Laboratory, International Atomic Energy Agency, BP 800, MC 98012, Monaco

    M. Horvat

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Mason, R.P., Ozerova, N.A., Akagi, H., Cossa, D., Fitzgerald, W.F., Horvat, M. (1996). Working Group Report on Oceanic Mercury Cycling. In: Baeyens, W., Ebinghaus, R., Vasiliev, O. (eds) Global and Regional Mercury Cycles: Sources, Fluxes and Mass Balances. NATO ASI Series, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1780-4_32

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