Understanding the processes by which mercury is mobilized from soil to stream is currently limited by a lack of observations during high-flow events, when the majority of this transport occurs. An automated technique to collect stream water for unfiltered total mercury (HgT) analysis was systematically evaluated in a series of laboratory experiments. Potential sources of error investigated were 1) carry-over effects associated with sequential sampling, 2) deposition of HgT into empty bottles prior to sampling, and 3) deposition to or evasion from samples prior to retrieval.
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