Mercury and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) represent major threats to human health and ecosystem functioning.
Mercury and POPs accumulate in the marine environment, bioconcentrate into phytoplankton and Biomagnify along the trophic chain. In parallel to anthropogenic Hg and POP emissions ongoing climate change possible exacerbate possible impacts on ecosystems.
To understand, quantify and assess processes driving their biogeochemical cycling through earth system components therefore remain a major challenge to be taken by scientific community, also in order to foster the development and application of predictive models for the identification of mitigation and adaptation policies.
The session welcomes contributions focusing on every aspects (experiments, observation, modelling) of the Hg and POP cycles in the estuarine, coastal and ocean environment, as well as through other components of the earth system, and related impacts on society and human health.