😲 So sorry to hear this, absolutely devastating

I’ll still have a bit of research time in there. Undergrad education has always been a passion (going all the way back to those student-faculty conferences in my Caltech days), so pretty excited to make that a focus area for the time being!

Absolutely! I’ll still get a little bit of research time (and we should stay in touch even if we aren’t doing science together!)

@kathrynemmerson.bsky.social @nadineborduas.bsky.social @dbm.bsky.social

Thanks would be great to get added to this!

📷 @ElineMarieS (another ride co-leader!)

This was a massive effort, spanning nearly 3 years with co-authors from 4 continents.

If you want to learn more, come along to our Minamata Online webinar on 12 April (12h00 CEST): https://mercuryconvention.org/en/events/mercury-southern-hemisphere-2

The anthropogenic paper focuses on 4 key areas of difference:
1. Legacy Hg
2. Fire and deforestation
3. Artisanal and small-scale gold mining
4. Industrial sources

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01840-5

The natural paper focuses on 5 key areas of difference:
1. Background Hg in soils
2. Litterfall & throughfall
3. Ocean Hg sources & sinks
4. Methylation processes
5. Geogenic sources

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01832-5

You’ll never believe it, but the SH and the NH are different!
How so, you might ask? This is exactly what our papers address.

As a community, we have more data in the NH and tend to treat NH findings as globally representative. This work highlights where that may be a problem.

@uowresearch