Developing Integrated Modeling and Monitoring Programs for Mercury in the Chesapeake Bay Region
The Maritime Institute Conference Center,
Linthicum, Maryland
October 2-4, 2007
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The accumulation of toxics in fish has remained one of the key drivers of Chesapeake Bay water quality impairment. The Chesapeake 2000 Toxics Strategy, as part of the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement, was developed to establish a set of goals and guidelines to improve water quality through toxics reductions. While it places particular emphasis on the need for effective toxics monitoring, assessment, and research programs around the region, little is known of what efforts have been put forth to drive these goals forward.
The STAC/NOAA funded workshop provided a forum for regional, national, and international researchers, modelers, and regional state agency representatives to assess and evaluate current monitoring and modeling programs for reducing one of the Chesapeake Bay’s more persistent, bioaccumulative toxins: Mercury. Experts put forth recommendations to better coordinate existing mercury monitoring programs and to address current management needs. In addition, workshop participants outlined initial steps for developing the first ecosystem based model for mercury accumulation in the Chesapeake Bay region. A summary of the workshop and its recommendations will be available in a STAC brochure shortly.
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Workshop Participants
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Greg Allen, EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office
Tom Barron, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Bob Beal, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Shawn Booth, University of British Columbia
Hannah Bracken, Chesapeake Research Consortium/ Chesapeake Bay Program Office
A.C. Carpenter, Potomac River Fisheries Commission
Ruth Chemerys, EPA
Kent Crawford, USGS
Bethann Crowell, NOAA Oxford Laboratory
Dave Evans, NOAA, National Center for Coastal Ocean Science
Dave Clark, HDR, Inc.
Villy Christensen, University of British Columbia
Nina Fisher, Technical Writer
Mark Garrison, Environmental Resources Management
Cindy Gilmour, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Steve Giordano, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Program Office
Ron Gray, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Rich Haeuber, EPA
Reed Harris, Tetra Tech - Toronto, Canada
Andrew Heyes, University of Maryland
Bridget Hill, Maryland Department of the Environment
Maggie Kerchner, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office
Kuo-Liang Lai, EPA Region III
A.K. Leight, NOAA Oxford Laboratory
Lewis Linker, EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office
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Susan Lingenfelser, USFWS, Gloucester, VA
Tony Lowery, NOAA Gulf of Mexico
Hongguang Ma, NOAA Oxford Laboratory
Rob Mason, University of Connecticut
Gary Matlock, NOAA National Center for Coastal Ocean Science
Derek Orner, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office
Rob O'Reilly, Virginia Marine Resources Commission
Fred Pinckney, USFWS
Tony Prochaska, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Ginny Rogers, VERSAR
Tim Rule, Maryland Department of the Environment
Mark Sandheinrich, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
David Schmeltz, EPA
Len Schugam, Maryland Department of the Environment
John Sherwell, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Jim Smith, EPA Region III
Anna Soehl, Maryland Department of the Environment
Peter Tango, USGS Chesapeake Bay Program Office
Howard Townsend, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Program Offic/Oxford Laboratory
Jack Travelstead, Virginia Marine Resources Commission
Liz Van Dolah, Chesapeake Research Consortium
Chuck Yingling, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
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Briefing Materials and Related Links
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Developing Integrated Monitoring and Modeling Programs for Mercury in the Chesapeake Bay Region: Workshop Announcement
Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contaimination: Indicators of Change (Harris R, Krabbenhoft DP, Mason R, Murray MW, Reash R, Saltman T. CRC Press: New York, 2003.)
Available: www.crcpress.com
EPA's Total Maximum Daily Loads Program
Mercury, Food Webs, and Marine Mammals: Implications of Diet and Climate Change for Human Health (Booth S, Zeller D. 2005. Environmental Health Perspectives 113 (5): 521-526.)
Available: Environmetnal Health Perspectives
Mercury in Soils, Lakes, and Fish in Voyageurs National Park (Minnesota): Importance of Atmospheric Deposition and Ecosystem Factors (Wiener, JG, Knight, BC, Sanheinrich, MB, Jeremiason, JD, Brigham, ME, Engstrom, DR, Woodruff, LG, Cannon, WF, Balogh. SJ. 2006. Environmental Science and Technology 40: 6261-6268)
Abstract available: ASC Publications
Monitoring the Response to Changing Mercury Deposition (Mason RP, Abbott ML, Bodaly RA, Bullock Jr. OR, Driscoll CT, Evers, D, Linderg SE, M. Murray, M, Swain, EB. 2005. Environmental Scinece and Technology 39(1): 14A-22A)
Available: Environmental Science and Technology
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Water Quality Standards
Report of Findings: Synoptic Survey of Total Mercury in Recreational Finfish of the Gulf of Mexico (Lowery TA, and Garrett III ES. June 2005.)
PDF Available: www.epa.gov/gmpo/pdf/finfish/part1.pdf
Whole-ecosystem Study Shows Rapid Fish-Mercury Responce to Changes in Mercury Deposition (Harris RC, Rudd JWM, Amyot M, Babiarz CL, Beaty KG, Blanchfield PJ, Bodaly RA, Branfireun BA, Gilmour CC, Graydon JA, Heyes A, Hintelmann H, Hurley JP, Kelly CA, Krabbenhoft DP, Lindberg SE, Mason RP, Paterson MJ, Podemski CL, Robinson A, Sandilands KA, Southworth GR, St. Louis VL, Tate MT. 2007. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104: 16586-16591)
PDF available: www.pnas.org
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Workshop Presentations
**All workshop presentations are not yet peer-reviewed and are intended
for scientific discussion; not setting policy.
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Workshop Steering Committee
Developing Integrated Monitoring and Modeling Programs for Mercury in the Chesapeake Bay Region
Cindy Gilmour, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Overview of Mercury Cycling and Budgets for the Chesapeake Bay
Rob Mason, University of connecticut
Monitoring the Environmental Response to Changing Mercury Deposition to North America
John Sherwell, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Monitoring and Modeling: Dance Partners in Analysis
Andrew Heyes, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/ Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
Watershed Monitoring of Mercury in the Chesapeake Bay
Susan Lingenfelser, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Gloucester, Virginia
Mercury in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
Mark Sanheinrich, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Design of Fisheries Monitoring Programs for Temporal Trend Analysis
Tim Rule, Maryland Department of the Environment
Managing Mercury in Maryland: Protection of Public Health and Water Resources - MDE's Role and Approach
Alex Barron, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Fish and Sedimnet Monitoring Program
Ruth Chemerys, EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds
Recent Directions in Addressing Mercury Impairments through the CWA 303(d) Program
Tom Barron, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Mercury Monitoring in Pennsylvania's Water Programs
Ron Gray, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Air Quality
PA DEP Merury Data Resources
Robert Beal, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Overview of Atlantic Coastal State Mercury Monitoring and Fish Consumption Advisories
David Evans, NOAA Center for Coastal Ocean Science, Beaufort, NC
NOAA Mercury Bioaccumulation Monitoring in South Florida
Tony Lowery, National Marine Fisheries Service Seafood INspection Lab, Pascagoula, MS
Synoptic Survey of Mercury in Recreational Fish of the Gulf of Mexico
Steve Giordano, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office
Monitoring and Modeling in an Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Context
Villy Christensen, Unviversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Tracking Persistent Pollutants through the Chesapeake Bay Food Web
Reed Harris, Tetra Tech, Toronto, ON, Canada
Modeling Mercury Cycling and Bioaccumulation
Shawn Booth, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mercury, Food Webs and Marine Mammals in the Faroe Islands: Implications of Diet and Climate Change for Human Health
Howard Townsend and A.K. Leight, NOAA Oxford Laboratory
The Chesapeake Bay Fisheries Ecosystem Model
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Photo Credit: Tim Carruthers, IAN Image Library (SAV)
(www.ian.umces.edu/imagelibrary/); Cindy Gilmour, SERC (Fish)
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