# Mercury Australia > Contemporary uses and impacts of mercury --- ## Pages - [Publications](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/publications/) - [Mercury Symposium 2023: Australian Research Contributions to Understanding the Global Cycling of Mercury](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/symposium/mercury-symposium-2023-australian-research-contributions-to-understanding-the-global-cycling-of-mercury/) - [Symposium 2025](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/symposium/) - [Facilities](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/facilities/) - [Mercury](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/mercury/) - [Team Archive Page](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/the-team/) - [Homepage](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/) - [Macquarie University](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/macquarie-university/) - [Monash University](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/monash-university/) - [University of Canberra](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/university-of-canberra/) - [University of New South Wales](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/university-of-new-south-wales/) - [University of Melbourne](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/university-of-melbourne/) - [Blog](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/blog/) - [Seagrass sedimentary deposits as security vaults and time capsules of past mercury atmospheric deposition](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/seagrass-sedimentary-deposits-as-security-vaults-and-time-capsules-of-past-mercury-atmospheric-deposition/) - [The regulation and governance of mercury emissions](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/the-regulation-and-governance-of-mercury-emissions/) - [Contact](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/contact/) - [Tracking historical mercury contamination in lake sediments](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/monitoring-mercury-in-sediments/) - [Research](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/research/) - [Team](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/team/) - [Output](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/output-2/) - [About](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/overview/) --- --- ## Posts - [A new monitoring for Australia: The Asia-Pacific Mercury Monitoring Network](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/a-new-monitoring-for-australia-the-asia-pacific-mercury-monitoring-network/) - [Assessing Mercury Contamination in the Finniss River: Uncovering the Hidden Threat to Traditional Foods and Aquatic Life](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/assessing-mercury-contamination-in-the-finniss-river-uncovering-the-hidden-threat-to-traditional-foods-and-aquatic-life/) - [PhD Project: Long range toxic metal pollution in Australia and the Sub-Antarctic Islands](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/phdproject/) - [Measuring gaseous elemental mercury in regional background air](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/measuring-gaseous-elemental-mercury-in-regional-background-air/) - [Mercury, the ancient Maya, and global histories of preindustrial mercury.](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/mercury-the-ancient-maya-and-global-histories-of-preindustrial-mercury/) - [Workshop on rPlum age-depth modelling](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/workshop-on-rplum-age-depth-modelling/) - [Assessing mercury sediment quality targets using lake sediment cores](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/assessing-mercury-sediment-quality-targets-using-lake-sediment-cores/) - [Mercury dispersion within the Burdekin River catchment from legacy gold mine sites](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/mercury-dispersion-within-the-burdekin-river-catchment-from-legacy-gold-mine-sites/) - [Assessing presence and risk of mercury from offshore petroleum infrastructure](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/assessing-presence-and-risk-of-mercury-from-offshore-petroleum-infrastructure/) - [New opportunity for in-situ phytoremediation for legacy mine mercury contamination](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/new-opportunity-for-in-situ-phytoremediation-for-legacy-mine-mercury-contamination/) - [Australia’s gold industry stamped out mercury pollution — now it’s coal’s turn](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/australias-gold-industry-stamped-out-mercury-pollution-now-its-coals-turn/) - [Millenary environmental record of mercury concentration in Australian coastal waters](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/millenary-environmental-record-of-mercury-concentration-in-australian-coastal-waters/) - [Mercury and PFAS contamination: Problems of law and science](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/mercury-and-pfas-contamination-problems-of-law-and-science/) - [The Hidden Consequences of Metal Contamination in Wildlife](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/the-hidden-consequences-of-metal-contamination-in-wildlife/) - [Climate change can increase wildlife and humans exposure to mercury](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/climate-change-can-increase-wildlife-and-humans-exposure-to-mercury/) - [Historical mercury production in Australia](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/historical-mercury-production-in-australia/) - [Mercury Australia participation at the COP3 - Minamata Convention on Mercury](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/mercury-australia-participation-at-the-cop3-minamata-convention-on-mercury/) - [Mercury in Lake Macquarie: it is all up in the air](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/mercury-in-lake-macquarie-it-is-all-up-in-the-air/) - [Inaugural Mercury Australia Symposium](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/inaugural-mercury-australia-symposium/) - [Special Forum](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/special-forum/) - [Palaeoecological research in Timor-Leste to unveil deep-time dynamics of the biogeochemical cycle of mercury in the tropics](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/palaeoecological-research-in-timor-leste-to-unveil-deep-time-dynamics-of-the-biogeochemical-cycle-of-mercury-in-the-tropics/) - [The biogeochemical cycle of mercury in Australia: fieldwork in the remote peatlands of Barrington Tops National Park, NSW](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/the-biogeochemical-cycle-of-mercury-in-australia-fieldwork-in-the-remote-peatlands-of-barrington-tops-national-park-nsw/) - [Launch of Mercury Australia - March 2019](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/launch-of-mercury-australia-march-2019/) - [Trouble for turtles?](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/trouble-for-turtles/) - [Mercury contamination and coal fired power stations: is there a link?](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/mercury-contamination-and-coal-fired-power-stations-is-there-a-link-2/) - [Mercury in Lake Burley Griffin?](https://www.mercury-australia.com.au/mercury-in-lake-burley-griffin/) ---