Search Results - "Telmer, Kevin"
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Toward an Assessment of the Global Inventory of Present-Day Mercury Releases to Freshwater Environments
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health (01-02-2017)“…Aquatic ecosystems are an essential component of the biogeochemical cycle of mercury (Hg), as inorganic Hg can be converted to toxic methylmercury (MeHg) in…”
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Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Senegal: Livelihoods, Customary Authority, and Formalization
Published in Society & natural resources (03-08-2017)“…In Sub-Saharan Africa, efforts to formalize the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector under legal frameworks and to improve its environmental and…”
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Applications of stable water and carbon isotopes in watershed research: Weathering, carbon cycling, and water balances
Published in Earth-science reviews (01-11-2011)“…Research on rivers has traditionally involved concentration and flux measurements to better understand weathering, transport and cycling of materials from land…”
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Distribution of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Tapajós River Basin (Brazilian Amazon) over the Past 40 Years and Relationship with Water Siltation
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-07-2016)“…An innovative remote sensing approach that combines land-use change and water quality information is proposed in order to investigate if Artisanal and…”
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Carbon fluxes, pCO2 and substrate weathering in a large northern river basin, Canada: carbon isotope perspectives
Published in Chemical geology (08-07-1999)“…Isotopic composition of dissolved inorganic carbon (δ13CDIC) in the Ottawa River basin is about −8 and −16‰ for lowland carbonate and upland silicate…”
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Movement patterns of fish revealed by otolith microchemistry: a comparison of putative migratory and resident species
Published in Environmental biology of fishes (01-06-2015)“…We examined movement patterns in two wide ranging species of freshwater fish, a putative resident species the slimy sculpin, Cottus cognatus , and a migratory…”
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Mass-dependent and mass-independent variations in the isotope composition of mercury in cores from lakes polluted by a smelter: Effects of smelter emissions, natural processes, and their interactions
Published in Chemical geology (16-08-2013)“…Analysis of sediment cores from three lakes polluted by a smelter and located 3.8, 9.4, and 21.0km from it revealed that mercury (Hg) in smelter fallout has an…”
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Policies and regulations for Brazil’s artisanal gold mining sector: analysis and recommendations
Published in Journal of cleaner production (01-04-2011)“…In Brazil, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) produces in the range of 6 tonnes of gold (Au) per annum, and employs approximately 200,000 people…”
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Using ALOS/PALSAR and RADARSAT-2 to Map Land Cover and Seasonal Inundation in the Brazilian Pantanal
Published in IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing (01-12-2010)“…The Brazilian Pantanal is a large continuous tropical wetland with large biodiversity and many threatened habitats. The interplay between the distribution of…”
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Addendum to “Mass-dependent and mass-independent variations in the isotope composition of mercury in cores from lakes polluted by a smelter: Effects of smelter emissions, natural processes, and their interactions,” by Togwell A. Jackson, Kevin H. Telmer, and Derek C.G. Muir
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Bioaccumulation patterns of methyl mercury and essential fatty acids in lacustrine planktonic food webs and fish
Published in Science of the total environment (01-09-2006)“…Organisms of the planktonic food web convey essential nutrients as well as contaminants to animals at higher trophic levels. We measured concentrations of…”
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Effects of Small-Scale Gold Mining Tailings on the Underwater Light Field in the Tapajós River Basin, Brazilian Amazon
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-08-2017)“…Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) within the Amazon region has created several environmental impacts, such as mercury contamination and changes in…”
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lakes of the Pantanal: inventory, distribution, geochemistry, and surrounding landscape
Published in Wetlands ecology and management (01-02-2015)“…The Brazilian Pantanal is an ecosystem of high biodiversity. This biodiversity is largely supported by the dynamic hydrology and landscape of the region. As…”
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Habitat Use and Movement Patterns for a Fluvial Species, the Arctic Grayling, in a Watershed Impacted by a Large Reservoir: Evidence from Otolith Microchemistry
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-12-2007)“…1. Fluvial environments are lost following construction of dams and flooding of river valleys. Rivers flowing into newly created reservoirs are still…”
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Utilizing SAR imagery and aquatic vegetation to map fresh and brackish lakes in the Brazilian Pantanal wetland
Published in Remote sensing of environment (15-12-2006)“…South America's Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland, contains hundreds of thousands of geochemically diverse lakes, ranging from dilute to brackish…”
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The atmospheric transport and deposition of smelter emissions: evidence from the multi-element geochemistry of snow, Quebec, Canada
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (01-07-2004)“…Abundances of 35 elements and ions were determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy,…”
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Stock identification and life history interpretation using trace element signatures in salmon otoliths
Published in Ocean science journal (01-09-2014)“…Chum salmon ( Oncorhynchus keta ) in the North Pacific Ocean are anadromous fish, and spend most of their life in the sea until spawning in natal streams. To…”
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Mapping and monitoring lakes in the Brazilian Pantanal wetland using synthetic aperture radar imagery
Published in Aquatic conservation (01-05-2007)“…1. The Pantanal wetland in South America is being threatened by human development, such as the construction of hydropower dams in the upper Paraguay River and…”
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Isotopic constraints on the transpiration, evaporation, energy, and gross primary production Budgets of a large boreal watershed: Ottawa River Basin, Canada
Published in Global biogeochemical cycles (01-03-2000)“…The residual signals of the physical and chemical processes undergone in a river basin are stored in the isotopic composition of river water and are used here…”
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