@ngltaylor Thanks @ngltaylor for the symposium. Yes, two giants of Asia (China and India) are reducing coal burning for their power plants that will certainly help to reduce mercury pollution due to long-range transport.
I went for a festival vacation and could not answer you on time.
@chhatrasharma Thanks for your #SWSTwitterSymp2018 presentation Chhatra! Are there any measures in place to reduce mercury pollution - most of which comes from South Asia, if I understand correctly? Sometimes protecting wetlands requires action away from the wetlands themselves...
1/5 Although Hg concentrations on the southern aspects of the Himalayas were higher compared to the northern aspects, the Tibetan Plateau; the overall results reflected a continuous anthropogenic release from south Asia at present. #SWSTwitterSymp2018pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…
5/5 The mercury concentrations in the fish community in some lakes (e.g., Lake Phewa) possesses potentially less risk towards human health (Thapa et al., 2014). #SWSTwitterSymp2018ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24978881
Thank you, I am happy to answer the queries.
4/5 The fish communities in this region have low biomagnification rates compared to other parts of the world (Pandey et al., 2017), however more study is needed to completely verify this statement. #SWSTwitterSymp2018ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28840577
I will be presenting tomorrow on #SWSTwitterSymp2018 (Society of Wetland Scientists), a new experience (UTC 12:00, NST 17:45). The title is "Mercury concentrations in sediments, waters and fish community in Nepalese Himalayas".
Kathmandu University administration believes that keeping university teachers into its premises (two times electronic attendance) would generate knowledge and make KU a world class teaching/research university. Scientists or bonded labors. What a pity thought.😂🤣
Shameful act again by the professionals. We need a strict regulations for this kind of intellectual theft. I afraid, they could be promoted to Vice Chancellor of the university soon.
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