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Historical methyl mercury in San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay, California is considered a mercury-impaired watershed. Elevated concentrations of mercury are found in water and sediment as well as fish and estuarine birds. Sources of mercury to the watershed since 1845 include sediment-associated mercury from mercury mining, mercury losses from gold amalgamation activities in mines of the Sierra Nevada, aerial deposition of mercury from global and regional emissions to air, and the direct discharge of mercury to Bay waters associated with the urbanization and industrialization of the estuary. We assessed historical trends in mercury bioaccumulation by measuring mercury concentrations in feathers of the endangered California Ridgway’s rail (formerly California... Categories: Data; Tags: California Ridgway's Rail, Feathers, Ice Cores, Lake Tahoe, Mercury, All tags... San Francisco Bay, Sediment, Structural Equation Model, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wyoming, Fewer tags