Jackie Gerson, Nettie Calvin, and Michelle Rothman are collecting soils for determining the mercury methylation rates.The field team after the last sample was takenOnce the soils are back in the lab, they have to be processed in a nitrogen filled glove bag to allow the anaerobic bacteria to grow and methylate mercury.
The Peter Weiss-Penzias Lab at UC Santa Cruz, studying atmospheric/biospheric interactions of mercury and other toxins.
