FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Springtime changes in snow chemistry lead to new insights into mercury methylation in the Arctic BT AF LAROSE, Catheririe DOMMERGUE, Aurelien DE ANGELIS, Martine COSSA, Daniel AVERTY, Bernard MARUSCZAK, Nicolas SOUMIS, Nicolas SCHNEIDER, Dominique FERRARI, Christophe AS 1:1,2,3;2:1;3:1;4:4;5:5;6:1;7:1;8:2,3;9:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:PDG-DOP-DCN-BE-LBCM;5:PDG-DOP-DCN-BE-LBCM;6:;7:;8:;9:; C1 Univ Grenoble 1, CNRS, LGGE, F-38402 St Martin Dheres, France. Univ Grenoble 1, Lab Adaptat & Pathogenie Microorganismes, F-38042 Grenoble 9, France. CNRS UMR 5163, Paris, France. Ctr Mediterranee, IFREMER, F-83507 La Seyne Sur Mer, France. Ctr Nantes, IFREMER, F-44311 Nantes, France. C2 UNIV GRENOBLE, FRANCE UNIV GRENOBLE, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI TOULON NANTES SE PDG-DOP-DCN-BE-LBCM IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-univ-france IF 4.101 TC 60 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00018/12904/9880.pdf LA English DT Article AB Seasonal snow is an active media and an important climate factor that governs nutrient transfer in Arctic ecosystems. Since the snow stores and transforms nutrients and contaminants, it is of crucial importance to gain a better understanding of the dynamics of contaminant cycling within the snowpack and its subsequent release to catchments via meltwater. Over the course of a two-month field study in the spring of 2008, we collected snow and meltwater samples from a seasonal snowpack in Ny-Alesund, Norway (78 degrees 56'N, 11 degrees 52'E), which were analyzed for major inorganic ions and some organic acids, as well as total, dissolved, bioavailable mercury (THg, DHg, BioHg, respectively) and monomethylmercury (MMHg) species. We observe a seasonal gradient for ion concentrations, with surface samples becoming less concentrated as the season progressed. A significant negative correlation between BioHg and MMHg was observed in the snowpack. MMHg was positively and significantly correlated to methanesulfonate concentrations. Based on these results, we propose a new model for aerobic methylation of mercury involving species in the dimethylsulfoniopropionate cycle. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. PY 2010 PD NOV SO Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta SN 0016-7037 PU Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd VL 74 IS 22 UT 000284077400001 BP 6263 EP 6275 DI 10.1016/j.gca.2010.08.043 ID 12904 ER EF