In Walden, Thoreau1 noted that “the largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as
the globule of mercury in its tube”. Here, we consider the modern understanding of the …

A panel of international experts was convened in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2005, as part of the
8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant. Our charge was to address …

Global atmospheric changes carry the potential to disrupt the normal cycling of mercury and
its compounds. Acid rain may increase methylmercury levels in freshwater fish. Global …

A review of the available information on global Hg cycling shows that the atmosphere and
surface ocean are in rapid equilibrium; the evasion of Hg 0 from the oceans is balanced by the …

Elevated levels of mercury in aquatic environments remote from industrial sources have been
broadly attributed to long-range atmospheric transport and deposition of anthropogenic Hg…

Alkylmercury compounds were preconcentrated from air on a Carbotrap (graphitized carbon
black) column at room temperature. The species were then transferred by thermal …

This book is concerned with the processing of signals that have been sam pled and digitized.
The fundamental theory behind Digital Signal Process ing has been in existence for …

Anthropogenic activities have enriched mercury in the biosphere by at least a factor of three,
leading to increases in total mercury (Hg) in the surface ocean. However, the impacts on …

The slave was not only a physically ubiquitous presence but also a constant imaginative
presence in the classical world. This book explores the presence of slaves and slavery in …

Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues
that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows …