Project Objectives

The ACME project is an interagency, multidisciplinary study with the overall objective to conduct intensive, process-oriented research that focuses on the primary mercury cycling pathways in the Everglades, and which can be synthesized by a "model" for restoration and predictive purposes.

Project Funding

• USGS Placed Based Studies Program
• South Florida Water Management District
• Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Project Collaborators

• US Geological Survey
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• South Florida Water Management District
• Florida Department of Environmental Protection
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
• University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Academy of Natural Sciences
• Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (formerly the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission)
• Tetra Tech, Inc.
• Texas A&M University
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Additional Project Links

• South Florida Restoration Science Forum - Mercury
• Aquatic Cycling of Mercury in the Everglades (ACME) Project: Synopsis of Phase I Studies and Plans for Phase II Studies

The Mercury Cycle

Publications

Project Sampling Sites

Photos of Field Sampling in the Florida Everglades (Click on the photo thumbnail to see a full-size image)

Mercury Methylation/De-methylation Process