| Abstract: | Mercury in our environment - in our air, water, soil, and especially our food - poses significant hazards to human health, particularly for developing fetuses and young children. Because of the importance of this issue and the length of time it has been studied, large and complex data sets of mercury concentrations in various media and associated ancillary data have been generated by many Federal, State, Tribal, and local agencies. To facilitate efficient and effective use of these
data in managing and mitigating human and wildlife exposure to mercury, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences have developed a website for visualizing and studying the distribution of mercury in our environment. The Environmental Mercury Mapping, Modeling, and Analysis (EMMMA) website (http://emmma.usgs.gov) provides health and environmental researchers, managers, and other decision-makers the ability to: 1) Interactively view and access a nationwide collection of environmental mercury data (fish
tissue, atmospheric emissions and deposition, stream sediments, soils, and coal) and mercuryrelated data (mine locations); 2) Interactively view and access predictions of the National Descriptive Model of Mercury in Fish (NDMMF) at 4,976 sites and 6,829 sampling events (events are unique combinations of site and sampling date) across the United States; and 3) Use interactive mapping and graphing capabilities to visualize spatial and temporal trends and study relationships between mercury and other variables. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 76665 |
| Citation Author: | Hearn, Paul P., Jr.; Wente, Stephen P.; Donato, David I.; Aguinaldo, John J. |
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| Citation Series Number: | 2006-1086 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | EMMMA: A web-based system for environmental mercury mapping, modeling, and analysis; 2006; OFR; 2006-1086; Hearn, Paul P., Jr.; Wente, Stephen P.; Donato, David I.; Aguinaldo, John J. |
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| Text: | EMMMA: A web-based system for environmental mercury mapping, modeling, and analysis; 2006; OFR; 2006-1086; Hearn, Paul P., Jr.; Wente, Stephen P.; Donato, David I.; Aguinaldo, John J. |
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| Date Other: | Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00 -0500 |
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