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Peter Weiss, University of California Santa Cruz – Mercury in California’s Fog

Aug 30, 2016

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Academic Minute

in Climate Science

Why is there mercury in California’s fog? Peter Weiss, research associate at the University of California Santa Cruz, explains why fog, and not rain, collects mercury from the atmosphere and what that could mean for coastal environments. Peter Weiss-Penzias has been a Researcher in Environmental Toxicology at University of California at Santa Cruz since 2008. …