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Assessment of Ecological and Human Health Impacts of Mercury in the Bay-Delta Watershed

Task	Agency or Institution	Principal Investigator(s)	Report	Size/Pages
	Delta Biological Group	Chris Foe Jay Davis Steven Schwarzbach Mark Stephenson Darell Slotton	Conceptual Model and Working Hypotheses of Mercury Bioaccumulation in the Bay-Delta Ecosystem and its Tributaries Delta Conceptual Biogeochemical Model Figure	6.21 MB/24 Pages 1.4 MB/1 Page
	Delta Biogeochemistry Group	Mark Stephenson, Kenneth Coale Gary Gill Chris Foe Mark Marvin	Delta Conceptual Biogeochemical Model Figure	1.4 MB/1 Page
	Cache Creek Group	Joseph L. Domagalski Darell G. Slotton Charles N. Alpers Thomas H. Suchanek Ronald Churchill Nicolas Bloom Shaun M. Ayers John Clinkenbeard	Summary and Synthesis of Mercury Studies in the Cache Creek Watershed, California, 2000-2001	3.1 MB/37 Pages
1A	Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board	Chris Foe	Mercury Mass Balance for the Freshwater Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta Estuary Appendicies A, B, and C	5.38 MB/35 Pages 0.21 MB/29 Pages
1C	US Geological Survey (Sacramento)	Joseph L. Domagalski Charles N. Alpers Darell Slotton Thomas H. Suchanek Shaun M. Ayers	Mercury and Methylmercury Concentrations and Loads in the Cache Creek Watershed, California, January 2000 Through May 2001	8.10 MB/105 Pages
2A	San Francisco Estuary Institute¹ Moss Landing Marine Laboratories²	Jay A. Davis¹, B. K. Greenfield¹, Gary Ichikawa², and Mark Stephehson²	Mercury in sport fish from the Delta region Appendix	1.53 MB/63 pages 0.18 MB/29 Pages
3A	USGS, Biological Research Division¹ US Fish and Wildlife Service²	Steven Schwarzbach¹ and Terry Adelsbach²	Field Assessment of Avian Mercury Exposure in the Bay-Delta Ecosystem	0.61 MB/30 pages
3B	USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center	Gary Heinz	The Use of Egg Injections to Rank the Sensitivities of Avian Embryos to Methylmercury	0.19 MB/29 Pages
4A	Moss Landing Marine Laboratories¹ California Department of Fish and Game¹	Wesley A. Heim¹, Kenneth Coale¹ and Mark Stephenson^1,2	Methyl and Total Mercury Spatial and Temporal Trends in Surficial Sediments of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C	2.27 MB/57 pages 0.67 MB/9 pages 0.07MB/4 pages 0.60 MB/3 pages
4B	Texas A&M University at Galveston	Gary A. Gill, Ron Lehman, Key-Young Choe, and Seunghee Han	Sediment-Water Exchange and Estuarine Mixing Fluxes of Mercury and Monomethyl Mercury in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and Delta	1.0 MB/44 pages
5A	University of California at Davis¹ and US Fish and Wildlife Service²	Thomas H. Suchanek^1,2, Darell Slotton¹, Douglas C. Nelson¹, Shaun M. Ayers¹, Chance Asher¹, Ron Weyand¹, Anne Liston¹ and Collin Eagles-Smith¹	Mercury Loading and Source Bioavailibility From the Upper Cache Creek Mining Districts	1.57 MB/72 Pages
5B	University of California at Davis¹ and US Fish and Wildlife Service²	Darell G. Slotton¹, Shaun M. Ayers¹, Thomas H. Suchanek², Ronald D. Weyand¹, and Anne M. Liston¹	Mercury Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer in the Cache Creek Watershed of California, in Relation to Diverse Aqueous Mercury Exposure Conditions UC Davis Mercury Bioaccumulation Data Appendicies	3.8 MB/74 pages 2.2 MB/63 pages
5C1	California Dept. of Conservation	Ronald Churchill and John Clinkenbeard	Assessment of the Feasibility of Remediation of Mercury Mine Sources in the Cache Creek Watershed Appendix	1.9 MB/59 pages 5.5 MB/75 pages
5C2	Tetra Tech EM, Inc.		Final Engineering Evaluation and Cost Analysis for the Sulfur Creek Mining District, Colusa and Lake Counties, California	11.2 MB/393 pages
7C	Frontier Geosciences, Inc.	Nicolas Bloom	Solid Phase Mercury Speciation and Incubation Studies in or Related to Mine-site Run-off in the Cache Creek Watershed (CA)	4.1 MB/38 pages
QA	Frontier Geosciences, Inc.	Beverly Van Buuren Michelle L. Gauthier, M. B. Miller IV, and Bryan Setzer	Calfed Mercury Project Quality Assurance Oversight Appendix A Appendix B Calfed Mercury Project Quality Assurance Oversight – Analysis and Evaluation of Split Samples	0.27 MB/21 pages 1.4 MB/38 pages 0.65 MB/21 pages 0.21 MB/39 pages
		Chris Foe Mark Stephenson Stacy Standish	Pilot Transplant Studies with the Introduced Asiatic Clam, Corbicula Fluminea, to Measure Methylmercury Accumulation in the Foodweb of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary Clam Transplant Study – Appendix
	University of California - Davis Specially funded Collaborative Calfed Study	Slotton, Ayers, Suchanek, Weyand, Liston, Asher, Nelson, and Johnson	The Effects of Wetlands Restoration on the Production and Bioaccumulation of Methyl Mercury in The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California

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