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
March: Lindsay Starr's paper on mercury collected during the GEOTRACES GP15 cruise is accepted for publication in JGR-Oceans "Mercury distribution and speciation along the U.S. GEOTRACES GP15 Pacific Meridional Transect". Rob and Yipeng are co-authors.
March: Yipeng He's paper "Elevated methylmercury in Arctic rain and aerosol linked to air-sea exchange of dimethylmercury" is soon to be published in Science Advances. Rob and Hannah are co-authors.
February: Rob is a co-author on a paper published in Nature Communications with colleagues including Maodian Liu "Warming-induced retreat of West Antarctic glaciers weakened carbon sequestration ability but increased mercury enrichment"
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 |