Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Aquatic Ecology Lab are working in partnership with OREM to understand how the element changes and behaves in the environment.
Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Aquatic Ecology Lab are working in partnership with OREM to understand how the element changes and behaves in the environment.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) released the third of its four-part video series spotlighting the site’s environmental research. This segment explores how the OREM is funding research to understand and remediate the complex element of mercury. Watch the video here. 

Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Aquatic Ecology Lab are working in partnership with OREM to understand how the element changes and behaves in the environment. This work is clarifying how species accumulate mercury differently, how mercury moves up the food chain, and how to modify the environment to reduce mercury uptakes.

Their research is providing a deeper understanding on the topic, and it is providing a blueprint to OREM for best environmental cleanup practices. These solutions can also be applied to other remediation projects across the country.

Click here for the first segment and here for the second segment in the series.