| Short-Term Cycling of Methylmercury in Waters Discharging into GSL Wetlands |
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Recent biogeochemical assessments of Great Salt Lake wetlands and open water have found elevated levels of methylmercury in the water and biota. David L. Naftz and David P. Krabbenhoft of USGS recently undertook a study to investigate the short-term cycling of methylmercury in water discharging from the Howard Slough State Waterfowl Management Area. The researchers found that the concentration of methylmercury decreased during daylight hours. Read the  paper that was presented during the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (October, 2009).Tags: |
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Wallace Stegner "Dead Heart of the West"
It is a desert of water in a desert of salt and mud and rock, one of the most desolate and desolately beautiful of regions. Its sunsets, seen across water that reflects like polished metal, are incredible. Its colors are of a staring, chemical purity. The senses are rubbed raw by its moonlike horizons, its mirages, its parching air, its moody and changeful atmosphere.
Wallace Stegner, "Dead Heart of the West" in American Places, 1981
