
Bay Area researchers hope to unlock the secrets of coastal fog – Santa Rosa Press Democrat, January 13, 2026
Social media users in the Central Valley are freaking out about unusual fog – Los Angeles Times – December 20, 2025
Could San Francisco’s famous fog be fading away? – USA Today – June 10, 2025
Scientists are turning fog into water. Here’s what it could mean for California – San Francisco Chronicle – December 18, 2024

Late-spring storm brings cloud cover, rain across Santa Cruz County – Santa Cruz Sentinel
San Francisco’s Fog Could Be a Casualty of Climate Change… But It Could Also Be a Solution – NBC Bay Area – December 28, 2022
Clouds clear for UCSC ‘fog squad’ – Santa Cruz Sentinel – October 1, 2022
The Elusive Future of San Francisco’s Fog – New York Times Interactive Story, September 14, 2022

Wildfire runoff may impede steelhead sense of smell UC Natural Reserve System Newsletter, February 1, 2022
Traces in the Fog – a poem inspired by Peter’s research by Sam Illingworth, Dec. 13, 2019
Marine Fog Brings Mercury Pollution to California Mountain Lions, Earth Island Journal, Jan 13, 2020
Santa Cruz mountain lions found with elevated levels of mercury linked to coastal fog, study finds (Interview with Peter Weiss-Penzias), KSBW Salinas, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Nov. 29, 2019

TOXIC FOG IS BRINGING DANGEROUS LEVELS OF MERCURY TO CALIFORNIA’S MOUNTAIN LIONS, Newsweek, Nov. 27, 2019
Fog brings poison mercury to Santa Cruz Mountains — mountain lions are suffering, San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 26, 2019
Research paper: Marine fog inputs appear to increase methylmercury bioaccumulation in a coastal terrestrial food web, PS Weiss-Penzias, MS Bank, DL Clifford, A Torregrosa, B Zheng, W Lin, C. Wilmers Scientific reports 9 (1), 1-11 2019
Peter Weiss-Penzias speaks on mercury in fog and mountain lions, Dec. 2019, on the Pat Thurston show, KGO San Francisco,
Peter Weiss-Penzias speaks on how his research on methylmercury in fog came to be. KZSC-FM Radio Santa Cruz, CA, November 2018.
Santa Cruz Sentinel article, Ocean fog carries mercury, a neurotoxin, to land, science reveals. August 25, 2017
Interview on ‘America in the Morning’ on the Westwood One Radio Network Jan. 18, 2016
Research paper, Low cost system detecting fog events and triggering active fog water collector , Aerosol and Air Quality Research, May 2017
Al Jazeera TechKnow documentary, The Science of Water Sustainability, April 22, 2017
Monterey Herald News article, Feb. 19, 2016
Ocean Currents podcast interview of Peter speaking about Hg in fog, Feb 1, 2016
Chemical and Engineering News article Jan. 25, 2016
Half Moon Bay Review news article Jan. 13, 2016
Atlantic Magazine City Lab Blog Post Jan 5, 2016
Popular Mechanics reprint of SF Chronicle news story Jan 4, 2016
San Francisco Magazine article Jan. 4 2016
San Francisco Chronicle article Jan. 4, 2016
Article in BayNature, Dec. 30, 2015
KCBS San Francisco radio story Dec. 26, 2015
Santa Cruz Sentinel Newspaper article Dec. 25, 2015
Science News article Dec. 18, 2015
Good Times Santa Cruz Weekly cover story Dec. 18, 2015
Gizmodo news article Dec. 18, 2015
CNBC news article Dec. 18, 2015
KQED news article Dec. 18, 2015
Popular Science news article Dec. 18, 2015
KION TV Interview Nov. 12, 2015
Article in Good Times Santa Cruz Weekly: Foggy Notion (October 14, 2015)
NSF Discoveries Article: Mercury-laden fog swirls over coastal California, scientists find August 26, 2015
Article in Santa Cruz Sentinel Newspaper on studying fog water harvesting, August 7, 2015
Lecture given by Peter Weiss-Penzias at Moss Landing Marine Labs, 2014
Original Paper – Weiss-Penzias Total and monomethyl mercury in fog water from the central California coast, 2012
Recent Paper – Ortiz Weiss-Penzias Total and MMHg in terrestrial arthropods from central calif coast Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 2014
Radio Interview – KUSP FM 88.9 Story on Mercury in Fog, 2015
You Tube Video – Investigations of Mercury in Coastal Ocean with Kenneth Coale and MLML scientists on the R/V Pt. Sur
Recent Media Report – Estuary Magazine -MAR 2015 – Fog Hg potential impacts on coastal ecosystems