Last week, Aurelié Dufour, Mariia Petrova, Marie-Maëlle Desgranges and Lars-Eric Heimbürger-Boavida (CEM team) attended the 14th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP) in Krakow, Poland (https://mercury2019krakow.com). Aurelié Dufour presented a poster on "GEOTRACES intercalibration exercises and the development of reference material for the community".
Mariia Petrova gave an oral presentation on part of her doctoral work entitled "Total and methylated mercury inputs and outputs in the Arctic Ocean via Fram Strait and Barents Sea Opening".
Marie-Maëlle Desgranges presented a poster from her Masters project "Biomagnification of contaminants in a marine food web (NW Mediterranean Sea): speciation of arsenic and mercury toxic forms" and parts of her new PhD project "Methylmercury: a new tracer for the remineralization of organic matter? Overall, there were 9 very popular presentations at the conference. The MIO on the mercury theme, through several new and ongoing projects (H2020 ITN GMOS-TRAIN, ANR MERTOX, ANR TONGA, ANR CONTAPUMP, ANR SWINGS, MISTRALS HIPPOCAMPE, ? ), will be present at the next CIMPG meeting to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 11 to 16 July 2021 (http://www.mercury2021.com).