Editors:
The Florida Everglades is perhaps the world’s most studied aquatic ecosystem with respect to the mercury problem
This book integrates over 30 years of research on mercury sources, biogeochemistry, bioaccumulation and toxicity, and remediation options, to inform scientists and policy makers
This book reexamines Everglades’ mercury science and evaluates the likely efficacy of other solutions, as the proposed solution to the Everglades mercury problem by the State of Florida and accepted by the U.S. government will not result in toxicologically acceptable mercury levels in fish for many decades
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book is the final installation in a three-volume series synthesizing 30 years of mercury research in the Florida Everglades. The first part of this book evaluates the occurrence of trends in both biota mercury concentrations and atmospheric mercury deposition. Through both empirical and deterministic analyses, the likely drivers of biota trends are identified. These analyses help lay the predicate for devising an overall strategy to mitigate and manage the Everglades mercury problem. The book concludes with a model analysis of the likely benefits and uncertainty attendant with implementing the leading candidate strategy for best reducing the Everglades mercury problem.
Reviews
“The editors and authors of this set of books have done a real service to Everglades management, to environmental science, and particularly to those who deal with risks from Hg.” (Glenn Suter, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Vol. 17 (3), 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
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Aqua Lux Lucis, Inc, Gainesville, USA
Curtis D. Pollman
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Institute of Public Health, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, USA
Donald M. Axelrad
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Coastal Watershed Institute, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, USA
Darren G. Rumbold
About the editors
Donald M. Axelrad, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health in the Institute of Public Health, College of Pharmacy, at Florida A&M University (FAMU). He earned a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Wayne State University, an M.S. in Environmental & Industrial Health from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Marine Science from the College of William and Mary. Prior to joining FAMU, from 1996-2013 while with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Dr. Axelrad had responsibilities for writing and editing the annual ‘Mercury and Sulfur Environmental Assessment’ chapter of the ‘South Florida Environmental Report’ (SFER). This peer-reviewed publication - mandated by Florida’s (1994) Everglades Forever Act - is issued annually and summarizes “all data and findings of the State’s mercury monitoring and research in South Florida”.The SFER chapter concerns the magnitude and extent of the Everglades mercury problem, mercury sources to the Everglades, mercury biogeochemistry, bioaccumulation, human and wildlife toxicology, and options for mitigating the mercury problem. At FAMU, Dr. Axelrad teaches Environmental Health and Environmental Toxicology, remains involved in research on mercury exposure to women of childbearing age, as well as on lead exposure in children.
Darren Rumbold is a Professor of Marine Science and Director of the Coastal Watershed Institute at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). He earned a BA in Chemistry and a BS and MS in Biology from Florida Atlantic University. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Marine Biology and Fisheries at University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in 1996. In 1997, he was awarded a U.S. EPA Environmental Science & Engineering Fellowship at the National Center for Environmental Assessment in Washington, DC. From 1998-2006, he served as Senior- and, later, Lead Scientist with South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) overseeing a program to learn the influential factors controlling mercury biogeochemistry, fate and effects in the Everglades. During his tenure, he served as Module lead under the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) coordinating efforts of state and federal agencies working on mercury. He also served as Technical lead for the Water Quality Team of the Southwest Florida Feasibility Study. In 2006, Dr. Rumbold joined the faculty of FGCU where he mentors students in taking a landscape-scale approach in assessing impacts of high-volume, freshwater discharges and the transport and fate of nutrients, mercury and other toxicants transported through the coastal watershed. As principal investigator (PI) or co-PI, he has secured millions in extramural funding for research; most recently, up to $4.1 million to provide ecological and environmental scientific support, on an as-needed basis, to the SFWMD.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mercury and the Everglades. A Synthesis and Model for Complex Ecosystem Restoration
Book Subtitle: Volume III – Temporal Trends of Mercury in the Everglades, Synthesis and Management Implications
Editors: Curtis D. Pollman, Donald M. Axelrad, Darren G. Rumbold
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55635-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55634-1Published: 29 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55637-2Published: 30 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55635-8Published: 28 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 164
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecology, Ecosystems, Pollution, general, Water, general