Arctic mercury cycling

A Dastoor, H Angot, J Bieser, JH Christensen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions have driven marked increases in Arctic Hg levels,
which are now being impacted by regional warming, with uncertain ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean

PJ Tréguer, JN Sutton, M Brzezinski… - …, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
The element silicon (Si) is required for the growth of silicified organisms in marine
environments, such as diatoms. These organisms consume vast amounts of Si together with …

Novel insights into marine iron biogeochemistry from iron isotopes

JN Fitzsimmons, TM Conway - Annual Review of Marine …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The micronutrient iron plays a major role in setting the magnitude and distribution of primary
production across the global ocean. As such, an understanding of the sources, sinks, and …

A risk assessment review of mercury exposure in Arctic marine and terrestrial mammals

R Dietz, RJ Letcher, J Aars, M Andersen… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
There has been a considerable number of reports on Hg concentrations in Arctic mammals
since the last Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) effort to review …

DOM degradation by light and microbes along the Yukon River-coastal ocean continuum

BK Grunert, M Tzortziou, P Neale, A Menendez… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The Arctic is experiencing rapid warming, resulting in fundamental shifts in hydrologic
connectivity and carbon cycling. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a significant component …

Bioactive trace metals and their isotopes as paleoproductivity proxies: An assessment using GEOTRACES‐era data

TJ Horner, SH Little, TM Conway… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton productivity and export sequester climatically significant quantities of
atmospheric carbon dioxide as particulate organic carbon through a suite of processes …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic methylmercury cycling

S Jonsson, MN Mastromonaco, F Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic mercury (Hg) undergoes long-range transport to the Arctic where some of it is
transformed into methylmercury (MeHg), potentially leading to high exposure in some Arctic …

Size‐fractionated compositions of marine suspended particles in the Western Arctic Ocean: Lateral and vertical sources

Y **ang, PJ Lam - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present full water depth sections of size‐fractionated (1–51 μm;> 51 μm) concentrations
of suspended particulate matter and major particle phase composition (particulate organic …

Separating individual contributions of major Siberian rivers in the Transpolar Drift of the Arctic Ocean

R Paffrath, G Laukert, D Bauch… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The Siberian rivers supply large amounts of freshwater and terrestrial derived material to the
Arctic Ocean. Although riverine freshwater and constituents have been identified in the …

Environmental risk of nickel in aquatic Arctic ecosystems

PT Gauthier, TA Blewett, ER Garman… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Arctic faces many environmental challenges, including the continued exploitation of its
mineral resources such as nickel (Ni). The responsible development of Ni mining in the …