Wesleyan University BA senior thesis students: Donna McCready '83; John Brooks '84; Alison Gee '85; Stephen Scholand '90; Katie Meigs '99; Tabitha Zierzow '2002 (MA).

Publications:
ES-3. Varekamp, J.C., 1991: Trace element geochemistry and pollution history of mudflat and marsh sediments from the Connecticut coastline. Journal of Coastal Research, spec. issue, v.11, 105-123.
ES-4. Buchholtz ten Brink, M.R.; Mecray, E.L.; Galvin, E.L.; Mcdaniel, S.;  Varekamp, J.C.; and Murray, R.W.. 2000. Regional accumulation of contaminated sediments in Long Island Sound. In:Whitlatch, (ed.) Long Island Sound 1998 research conference proceedings.
ES-5. Varekamp, J.C., Mecray, E.L. and Zierzow, T., 2004, Once Spilled, Still Found: Metal Contamination in Connecticut Coastal Wetlands and Long Island Sound Sediment from Historic Industries. Chapter 7 In: Changing Coasts-private rights and public trusts (eds. Whitehall, D.M. and Visgilio, G.R.). (in press). 

Hg pollution in and around Long Island Sound. A study of dated (²¹⁰Pb, ¹³⁷Cs and ¹⁴C) coastal salt marsh cores for Hg abundances, and grab and core samples from Long Island Sound (with Marilyn Buchholtz ten Brink & Ellen Mecray, USGS, Woods Hole, MA).

Wesleyan students: John Crocket ' 93;  Scott Herman, '98; Bill Thompson '99; Kate Lauriat 2001; Beth Goldoff' 2002, Rachel Bronsther, 2004.
MA students: Bart Kreulen '99
other student: Julia Lynton (Haverford College).

Publications
HG-1. Varekamp, J.C. and Buseck, P.R., 1981: Mercury emissions from Mt. St. Helens during September 1980. Nature, 293, 555-556.
HG-2. Varekamp, J.C. and Buseck, P.R., 1983: Hg anomalies in soils: a geochemical exploration method for geothermal areas. Geothermics, 12, 29-47.
HG-3. Varekamp, J.C. and Buseck, P.R., 1984: The speciation of mercury in hydrothermal systems, with applications for ore deposition. Geochim. Cosm. Acta, 48, 177-186.
HG-4. Varekamp, J.C. and Buseck, P.R., 1984: Changing mercury anomalies in Long Valley, California: Indication for magma movement or seismic activity. Geology, 12, 283-286.
HG-5. Varekamp, J.C. and Buseck, P.R., 1986: Global mercury flux from volcanic and geothermal sources. Applied
Geochemistry, 1,  65-73.
HG-6. Varekamp, J.C., and Waibel, A., 1987: Natural cause for mercury pollution at Clear Lake, California, and
paleotectonic inferences, Geology 15, 1018-1021.
HG-7. Varekamp, J.C., Buchholtz ten Brink, M.R., Mecray, E.L., and Kreulen, B., 2000, Mercury in Long Island Sound sediments. J. Coastal Research. Spec. issue, vol. 16, 613-626.
HG-8. Varekamp, J.C., Kreulen*, B., Buchholtz ten Brink, M.F, and Mecray, E., 2003, Mercury contamination chronologies from Connecticut wetlands and Long Island Sound sediments. Environmental Geology, 43, 268-282.

HG-9. Varekamp, J.C., Mecray, E.L., and Zierzow, T., 2005, Once spilled, still found: Metal contamination in Connecticut wetlands and Long Island Sound sediment from historic industries.  Chapter in book on ‘Our Changing Coasts’, editors Whitelaw and Visiglione, E.Elgar Publishers, Chapter 9, p. 122-147.

HG-10. Dunagan, S.C., M. S. Gilmore and J. C. Varekamp. Effects of Mercury on visible/near-infrared reflectance spectra of Mustard Spinach plants (Brassica rapa P.), J. of Envir. Pollution, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2006.10.023  in press.

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Web site referring to our work on Hg abundances in Danbury and the Still River basin stemming from the historic hat-making industry:
http://www.seagrant.uconn.edu/HATTER.HTML

Hg concentrations in LIS