| | How Do You Know That? The Case for Long-Term Monitoring | | S-EM-2 | | Combined Oral and Poster | | Long-term monitoring is critical to the ability to identify trends, assess environmental risks, and determine the effectiveness of policy decisions in reducing those risks. Mercury is currently monitored in the U.S. through a variety of programs, many of which exist in isolation or operate for only a few years. This special session seeks to raise awareness of the value of long-term datasets in many aspects of mercury assessment—atmospheric deposition, aquatic and terrestrial environments, biota, wildlife, humans, and indicators of socioeconomic costs and benefits. The presenters represent a range of professional affiliation as well, including government, tribal, non-profit, industry, and academia. They will present their work using long-term mercury datasets in the variety of fields identified above for a variety of purposes, as well as discuss what additional work could be done with additional long-term monitoring. | Tamara Saltman
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
saltman.tamara@epa.gov | David Schmeltz
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
schmeltz.david@epa.gov | |
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