Exciting news! A paper was published this year on mercury in lichen measurements in and around the New Almaden Quicksilver Mining District. The work was done in collaboration with Peggy O’Day at UC Merced and her team who was able to analyze the lichen for chemical forms of mercury using X-Ray spectroscopy. The work was funded by the Eppley Foundation and the Santa Clara Water District. To find out more about this work, click on the Environmental Toxicology of Mercury tab. The lichen photo was taken by Belle Zheng, one of the student coauthors on the paper. Brittney Straw was another student coauthor and she did a lot of the lichen sampling around the Almaden and Guadalupe Reservoirs.