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Client
Resources Archive:
Hot Topic—Mercury
Introduction
Barr's experience
and capabilities
Internet resources
Mercury in your
home
Mercury
initiatives (PDF file)
Modeling
the fate of mercury in products (PDF file)
Download a report (Substance Flow
Analysis of Mercury in Products) that Barr wrote for the Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency: www.pca.state.mn.us/publications/hg-substance.pdf
Mercury,
which has been used in thousands of industrial, agricultural,
medical, and household applications, is a persistent, toxic
substance that can affect the health of humans and wildlife,
mainly through ingesting mercury-contaminated fish. The metal
can be released from:
- Natural
sources, such as volcanoes
- Products
containing mercury
- Processes,
such as those used in mining and power generation, that
heat raw materials containing mercury
The
Environmental Protection Agency, as well as and many U.S.
state and Canadian provincial governments, have identified
mercury as a critical pollutant of concern.
The
Barr staff members who specialize in mercury issues make our
company one of the preeminent providers of mercury testing,
investigation, impact assessment, and minimization in the
upper Midwest. The following individuals offer our clients
unusual depth and breadth of expertise in the mercury arena:
- Bruce
Monson, PhD, an environmental engineer with experience
in water quality, whose dissertation focused on mercury
cycling in lakes and factors influencing the bioavailability
of mercury
- Carol
Andrews, P.E., an environmental engineer who prior to
joining Barr served as the project manager for the MPCA's
Mercury Contamination Reduction Initiative
- Eric
Edwalds, an air quality scientist, and Paul Taylor,
an environmental engineer, who conduct air dispersion and
deposition modeling
- Cliff
Twaroski, an air quality scientist with experience in
atmospheric deposition impacts assessment and ecological
risk assessment
- Harry
Debye, an internationally known toxicologist with extensive
experience in multipathway-human-health and ecological risk
assessment
- Tim
Russell, a senior chemical engineer who heads Barr's
air testing group
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