1st Edition
Mercury Pollution A Transdisciplinary Treatment
When the Scientific Vantage Is Not Enough, Michael C. Newman
Dangerous Attractions: Mercury in Human History, Kris Lane
Human Impacts on Earth’s Natural Mercury Cycle, Elizabeth Malcolm
Mercury by the Numbers, Michael C. Newman and Kenneth M. Y. Leung
Is Tuna Safe? A Sociological Analysis of Federal Fish Advisories, Kelly Joyce
How USA Today Constructs the Problem of Mercury Pollution: A Sociological Analysis of Risk and Blame, Christine Mowery and Sarah Jane Brubaker
Input/Output: Researching and Communicating Mercury Issues Online, John Garnett Drummond
Making Mercury Visible: The Minamata Documentaries of Tsuchimoto Noriaki, Justin Jesty
Mercury-Inspired Arts, Kira Obolensky and Elizabeth Mead
Writing as Environmental Stewardship, Sydney Landon Plum
The Necessity of International Agreement, I.L. "Pep" Fuller and Clare Stankwitz
Afterword: Through Your Eyes, Li Xiong and Sharon L. Zuber
Index
Biography
As codirector of the Mercury Global Inquiry Group, Sharon L. Zuber organized faculty and student exchanges with Central China Normal University and the 2010 International Mercury EXPO, as well as mentored undergraduate student research video projects about mercury pollution. In 2006 she was invited to speak at a Symposium on Teaching and Research in Academic Writing at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. In 2008 she was area chair for “Environmental Documentaries” for the Film & History Conference. She teaches writing-intensive courses and works with faculty across the curriculum teaching freshman seminars. Her research interests focus on nonfiction writing and documentary filmmaking and include a comparison between New Journalist writers and Direct Cinema filmmakers, movements that emerged in the 1960s in the United States Her documentary films include They Live in Guinea (1996), a video about the Gloucester, Virginia, watermen; Master of the Flame (2004), a documentary about glass artist Emilio Santini; Mercury on the Move (2008), a short about the research about mercury in songbirds by Professor Daniel Cristol; and Mercury: A Hazard without Borders (2009), a film about the history and issues surrounding mercury pollution. She has published in College English, Post Script, and Film & History.
Michael C. Newman is currently the A. Marshall Acuff, Jr. Professor of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary's School of Marine Science where he also served as Dean of Graduate Studies from 1999 to 2002. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. His research interests include quantitative ecotoxicology, environmental statistics, risk assessment, population effects of contaminants, metal chemistry, and bioaccumulation and biomagnifications modeling.
