Lichen are a powerful bioindicator of gaseous mercury emissions from the abandoned mercury mines at the New Almaden Quicksilver County Park.
San Francisco’s Fog Could Be a Casualty of Climate Change… But It Could Also Be a Solution – December 28, 2022
Taking down the large fog collector today at the UCSC farm CfA. Here are some pictures taken by Shmuel Thaler, the Santa Cruz Sentinel photographer.
Three mesh panels with three separate rain gauges are installed at the UCSC farm.
Brittney and Peter met USGS, EPA, and other folks at a superfund site to investigate Hg emissions from the abandoned mine.
Results of a pilot study by Peter Weiss-Penzias and Belle Zheng looking at the spatial patterns of THg in four lichen species growing in the vicinity of New Almaden Quicksilver County Park.
Results of a pilot study by Peter Weiss-Penzias (UCSC), Dan Deeds (USBR), Belle Zheng (UCSC), and Tarabryn Grismer (UCSC) looking at the spatial patterns of THg in four lichen species growing in the vicinity of Lake Berryessa.
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Collecting throughfall precipitation in a redwood forest at UC Santa Cruz
Fog collector came on at 12:00am last night and turned off at 10:00am this morning. The sample was collected the this morning at 9:30 am and refrigerated. The collector was cleaned with soap and water, dried, then a blank was taken at 12:00pm. The sample and blank were acidified and refrigerated at 2:30pm. Today’s fog sample was a less gritty than yesterday’s.
