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DESCRIPTION:January 16\, 2019 3:00pm to 4:00pm    \n    \n      \n\n\n    
 \n\n              \nInstitute of Marine & Environmental Technology\n      
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       \n\n\nTitle: Ecosystem level controls on mercury methylation: the Ca
 rbon-Sulfur-Mercury Triad\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Andrew Heyes (Associate Rese
 arch Professor\, UMCES-CBL)\n\n\n\nAbstract: For more than a century burni
 ng of fossil fuel and industrial activity has contaminated global ecosyste
 ms with mercury. While efforts to reduce mercury loading through emission 
 reductions are ongoing fisheries around the world remain contaminated with
  methylmercury. The transformation of mercury into this organic form is do
 ne within ecosystems\, therefore it is essential to understand how mercury
  is cycled and transformed within the environment if we are to develop eff
 ective mitigation strategies. The methylation of mercury is biotic and mai
 nly performed by anaerobic bacteria. Therefore factors that control the ac
 tivity of mercury methylating bacteria and the bioavailability of mercury 
 to bacteria determines the extent of methylmercury production in a given e
 cosystem. The degree to which the food web is connected to zones of methyl
 ation is the last step in the transfer.  The mercury methylation process i
 s mainly centered about the interaction and cycling of three elements: mer
 cury\, carbon and sulfur.  Carbon and sulfur control the bioavailability o
 f mercury and the activity of mercury methylating bacteria. Through studie
 s that span the beaker to the ecosystem\, I will describe how the understa
 nding of these extremely complex interactions among this triad has progres
 sed and the path forward.  \n\n\n\nHost: Dr. Russell Hill
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SUMMARY:IMET Seminar: Dr. Andrew Heyes (Associate Research Professor\, UMCE
 S-CBL)
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.umces.edu/events/imet-seminar-dr-andrew-heyes-asso
 ciate-research-professor-umces-cbl
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