Size-fractionated particulate total mercury and monomethylmercury concentrations in the Southern Ocean during the PS133/1 expedition (22 October – 9 November 2022)

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Concentrations of particulate total mercury (Hg) and monomethylmercury (MMHg) were determined in size-fractionated suspended particles collected in the Southern Ocean between 22 October and 9 November 2022 during the PS133/1 expedition. Particles were collected using battery-powered in situ large-volume pumps (McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. and Challenger Oceanic's Stand-Alone Pumping System, SAPS) equipped with 142 mm diameter filter holders (MULVFS style; Bishop et al., 2012). Pumps were deployed at depths ranging from 25 to 350 m. Each filter holder contained two filters for size fractionation: a 51 μm Sefar Petex screen (SEFAR GmbH)—acid-leached prior to the cruise—mounted above a pre-combusted QMA filter (nominal pore size ~2.2 μm), separating particle size classes of 2.2–51 μm and >51 μm. Particulate total mercury was quantified by thermal decomposition, amalgamation, and atomic absorption spectrophotometry (TDA–AAS) using a DMA-EVO Direct Mercury Analyzer (Milestone). MMHg concentrations were determined by gas chromatography–cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectrometry (GC–CVAFS) using a Brooks Rand methylmercury analysis system following acid digestion. Data are reported both as mass-specific concentrations (ng g⁻¹ of suspended particulate matter) and as volume-normalized concentrations (pmol L⁻¹), corrected for the volume of water filtered.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.987318
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008767
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.4319/lom.2012.10.681
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Creator Pérez-Rodríguez, Marta ORCID logo; Biester, Harald
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Danish National Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001732 Crossref Funder ID DNRF145 Danish Center for Hadal Research, HADAL; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 528941462 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/528941462 Controls of Primary Production on Southern Ocean Mercury Cycling (COPPSOM); German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID GPF 20-1_053 Island Impact: Understanding the Regional Impact of South Georgia on Southern ACC Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Function; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID GPF 20-2_024 South Polar Carbon: Benthic Carbon Mineralization and Preservation in Southern Ocean Bathyal, Abyssal and Hadal Sediments
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 186 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-39.998W, -56.267S, -24.841E, -51.289N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-10-22T15:51:21Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-11-09T11:26:24Z