Postponed: Date TBA Lessons Linking Wetlands to Water to Wildlife

The USGS Evening Public Lecture ("Mercury and Rice in the California Delta") scheduled for Thursday, June 25, has been POSTPONED due to an unexpected conflict. A future date for this presentation has not yet been determined.

Please join us for our next public lecture on July 30, when USGS geologist Brian Atwater will talk about "The Cascadia Tsunami of 1700: A Japanese-American Detective Story". 

Postponed...   TBA

Lessons Linking Wetlands to Water to Wildlife

• Wetlands are hotspots for mercury methylation and export of methylmercury to aquatic foodwebs.
• Rice is the most abundant wetland type in California and globally in temperate and tropical latitudes.
• Physical, chemical and biological Hg transformations are temporally pulsed in agricultural wetlands, due largely to seasonal water management practices.
• Monitoring methylmercury at the right time and location is essential to managing and projecting future exposure for wildlife and humans.

Speaker: Lisamarie Windham-Myers, USGS Research Ecologist, National Research Program