Measurements of Gaseous Oxidized Mercury Dry Deposition Using Passive Samplers at the NAPD Beltsville (MD99) Site

Xinrong Ren1, Daniel Goldberg2, Allison Ring3, Mark Castro4, Winston Luke5, Paul Kelley6, Jason Karlstrom7 and John Sherwell8

Gaseous oxidized mercury (GOM) dry deposition was measured using surrogate surface passive samplers at the NADP Beltsville site (MD99) between August 2013 and February 2014.  A total of 13 bi-weekly GOM passive samples were collected and the average GOM dry deposition was 42±14 ng m-2 per two weeks.  Collocated wet deposition measurements show that the average mercury wet deposition was 207 ng m-2 per two weeks.  This suggests that the GOM dry deposition accounts for about 18% of the total mercury dry deposition.  For comparison, the average GOM dry deposition measured at the NADP Piney Resevior site was 56±23 ng m-2 per two weeks, which is about 23% of the total mercury deposition (246 ng m-2 per two weeks).  Correlation between the measured GOM dry deposition and other collocated measurements, including atmospheric Hg species, trace gases, as well as meteorological parameters will be presented.  These limited GOM dry deposition measurements showed that these passive samplers can be useful to investigate spatial/temporal variability of GOM.

 

1UMD/NOAA-ARL, Xinrong.Ren@noaa.gov
2UMD-AOSC, dgoldb@atmos.umd.edu
3UMD-AOSC, aring@atmos.umd.edu
4UMD-CES, mcastro@al.umces.edu
5NOAA/ARL, winston.luke@noaa.gov
6NOAA/ARL, paul.kelley@noaa.gov
7Frontier Global Sciences, JasonKarlstrom@eurofinsUS.com
8MD-DNR, jsherwell@dnr.state.md.us