Internet Resources for Geology and Human Health

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Mercury Research in the USGS part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://minerals.usgs.gov/mercury/

This site provides links to USGS information about mercury sources, cycling and toxicity in the environment. The site features announcements about upcoming workshops and activities, fact sheets and ...

Health Topics: Heavy Metals
Resource Type: Activities, Scientific Resources:Collection

Groundwater transport of arsenic and chromium at a historical tannery, Woburn, Massachusetts, U.S.A. part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article from 'Applied Geochemistry' is an overview of the use and subsequent reduction of arsenic and chromium compounds in the tanning industry. The article also describes the ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Heavy Metals
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity

Speciation and fate of arsenic in three lakes of the Aberjona watershed part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article from Environmental Science and Technology shows the manner in which sediment cores taken from the bottom of the Mystic Lakes were analyzed and used to interpret historic periods (1890s ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Heavy Metals
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity

Evaluation of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport at the Wells G and H Superfund Site, Woburn, Massachusetts, from 1960 to 1986 and Estimation of TCE and PCE Concentrations Delivered to Woburn Residences part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This doctoral dissertation from the Department of Geological Sciences at Ohio State University features a comprehensive treatment of TCE and PCE transport in the buried valley aquifer in Woburn, ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Heavy Metals
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity

No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This is a book written about the cluster of childhood leukemia cases that occurred from the 1960s through the 1980s in Woburn, Massachusetts, and spotlights the community action viewpoint. Material ...

Health Topics: Epidemiology and Risk Analysis, Organic Compounds, Waterborne Transport Processes, Heavy Metals
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Scientific Resources:Research Results, Overview/Reference Work, Opinion