Welcome to the webpage of the Mason Mercury Lab in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Mason also has a joint appointment in Chemistry.
Current research is focused on the fate, transport, and transformation of mercury and other metals and metalloids in aquatic systems and the atmosphere. The scope of this research includes the open ocean, the coastal zone and estuaries, as well as freshwater systems, with much of the current studies focusing on coastal ecosystems. The research is examining the important transformation processes in the sediment and water (methylation, demethylation, redox transforamtions) and their interfaces (sediment/water and air/sea), focusing on how these impact bioavailability and bioaccumulation of mercury into aquatic organisms. See Research and Completed Projects for more details of our research.
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Recent research and activities
News and Recent Activities
Jan: Galleys proofs of the papers are being reviewed. Rob's paper is published!
Jan: Happy holidays wishes and Happy New Year!
Dec: Yipeng's paper on Arctic mercury depletion events is accepted for publication
Dec: Two papers on mercury in the Gulf of Maine accepted for publication. Rob and Sophia are the lead authors
Dec: Rob's chapter on uptake and trophic transfer in planktonic food webs accepted for publication
Nov: Another Bermuda cruise - Rob, Hannah, Jingjing and Olivia on board - is successfully completed
Oct: Maodian’s paper on coastal mercury cycling is published in Nature Sustainability. Rob is a co-author.
Oct: Djamilatou's paper is published in Environmental Sciences: Processes and Impacts
Contact
| Phone: | (860) 405-9129 (office); 910-8779 (cell) |
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| E-mail: | robert.mason@uconn.edu |
| Address: | Dept Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, 1080 Shennecossett Rd, Groton, CT 06340 USA Dept Chemistry, UConn, Storrs, CT |
| More: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=U6wykfoAAAAJ&hl=en |