Research delayed due to COVID-19

Mar 24, 2020

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Research delayed due to COVID-19Many thanks to everyone who donated to our project. We still have big plans and are very excited to do the research. However, UC Santa Cruz has suspended all research operations through the end of spring term. That means we won't be doing any lab work until mid-June. We are still planning to make progress toward our goals in this project in the meantime. We will be contacting local farms and wild food gatherers and setting up connections for obtaining samples. September/October is the end of the fog season here in Santa Cruz, so that is when we hope to obtain our samples - after they have had a chance to soak up the maximum amount of fog. 
Please stay in touch with us if you have any questions or comments. In this time of isolation, connections between us even online, makes a huge difference.
Be well,
Peter Weiss

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Mercury is in our fog, so what about our food?

UC Santa Cruz

Near-toxic levels of mercury were recently discovered in the fur of mountain lions in the mountains of coastal California. Wet deposition of fog water, which is enriched in mercury, was suspected to be the cause. The foggy coast of California is also a major food growing zone, and we hypothesize that mercury in fog poses a risk to its residents through the diet. We propose to make measurements of mercury in crops and animal products from foggy and non-foggy areas.