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Steve E. Lindberg Corporate Research Fellow, Emeritus Formerly Oak Ridge National Laboratory New Information: New Phone:  (530)927-7627 Fax:      (530)836-2320 lindberg@Now2000.com Resumé

Research Areas

I have worked for 30 years on the environmental chemistry of trace metals, biogeochemical cycling in forests, atmosphere/surface exchange processes, development of environmental measurement methods, and the global mercury cycle.

Recent Research Projects  [ Top ]

Current research programs include development of micrometeorological and chamber flux methods for quantifying air/surface exchange rates of air toxics from natural sources (wetlands, forests, lakes, background and geologically enriched soils), and industrial sources (chlorine production and other non-combustion sources, municipal landfill operations, mining), and for measuring atmospheric and aquatic speciation, with emphasis on mercury. We are collaborating in an international whole-ecosystem manipulation study using stable mercury isotopes to determine the link between atmospheric deposition and Hg in biota. We are also involved in studies to develop landscape-scale estimates of atmospheric deposition of nutrients and pollutants to montane ecosystems in complex terrain. Our projects involve field studies in Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, California, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maine, New York, Florida, Alaska, Canada, Siberia, Germany, and Sweden.

Collaborations  [ Top ]

Our recent work has involved collaborations with colleagues at many institutes in North America and Europe: the Universities of Nevada, Michigan, Manitoba, Central Florida,Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Lund (Sweden); Tennessee Tech; NOAA-Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division; USGS-Madison; Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Desert Research Institute; Swedish Environmental Research Institute; EPA/ORD National Exposure Research Laboratory; Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans; National Institute of Minamata Disease; numerous colleagues at the Experimental Lakes Area (Canada); Frontier Geosciences; Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark; and GKSS Research Center (Germany).

Recent and Selected Publications  [ Top ]

See also papers cited under each link in "Recent Research Projects"

• Brooks, S., Lindberg, SE., and Arimoto, R. 2006. Springtime mercury depletion at McMurdo, Antarctica. Atmos. Envir. (In press).
• Lindberg, S.E., G. Southworth, M. Bogle, T. Blasing, H. Zhang, T. Kuiken, J. Price, D. Reinhart, H. Sfeir, J. Owens, and K. Roy. 2005. Airborne emissions of mercury from municipal solid waste- I: New measurements from six operating landfills in Florida. JAWMA (in press).
• Lindberg, SE., Dong, W., T. Meyers, and J. Chanton. 2005. A mechanism for bimodal emission of gaseous mercury from aquatic macrophytes. Atmos. Envir. 39:1289-1301.
• Lindberg, S.E., G. Southworth, E.M. Prestbo, D. Wallschläger, M. A. Bogle, J. Price. 2005. Gaseous methyl- and inorganic mercury in landfill gas from landfills in Florida, Minnesota, and California. Atmos. Envir. 39:249-258.
• Douglas, T.A., M. Sturm, W. Simpson, S. Brooks, S. Lindberg, and D. Perovich. 2005. Elevated mercury measured in snow and frost flowers near arctic sea ice leads. Geophys. Res. Letters 32: L04502, doi:10.1029/2004GL022132

Lindberg, SE., Dong, W., T. Meyers, and J. Chanton. 2005. A mechanism for bimodal emission of gaseous mercury from aquatic macrophytes. Atmos. Envir. 39:1289-1301.

• Lindberg, S.E., G. Southworth, E.M. Prestbo, D. Wallschläger, M. A. Bogle, J. Price. 2005. Gaseous methyl- and inorganic mercury in landfill gas from landfills in Florida, Minnesota, and California. Atmos. Envir. 39:249-258.
• Calvert, J. G. and S. E. Lindberg. 2004. The potential influence of iodine-containing compounds on the chemistry of the troposphere in the polar spring. II. Mercury depletion. Atmos. Envir. 38:5105-5116.
• Calvert, J.G., Lindberg, S.E. 2004. The potential influence of iodine-containing compounds on the extent of polar tropospheric chemistry: I. Ozone depletion. Atmos. Envir. 38:5087-5104.
• Gustin, M.S, M. Coolbaugh, M. Engle, B. Fitzgerald, R. Keislar, S. Lindberg, D. Nacht, J. Quashnick, J. Rytuba, C. Sladek, H. Zhang, and R. Zehner. 2003. Atmospheric Mercury Emissions from Mine Wastes and Surrounding Geologically Enriched Terrain. Envir. Geol. 43:339-351.
• Hintelmann, H., V. St.Louis, K. Scott, J.Rudd, S. E. Lindberg, D. Krabbenhoft, C. Kelly, A. Heyes, R. Harris, and J. Hurley. 2002. Reactivity and mobility of newly deposited mercury in a Boreal catchment. Envir. Sci. & Technol. 36:5034-5040.
• Lindberg, S.E., S.B. Brooks, C-J. Lin, K. J. Scott, M. S. Landis, R. K. Stevens, M. Goodsite, and A. Richter. 2002. The Dynamic Oxidation of Gaseous Mercury in the Arctic Atmosphere at Polar Sunrise. Envir. Sci. & Technol. 36:1245-1256.
• Lindberg, S.E., H. Zhang, A.F. Vette, M.S. Gustin, M.O. Barnett, and T. Kuiken. 2002. Dynamic flux chamber measurement of gaseous mercury emission fluxes over soils. Part 2: Effect of flushing flow rate and verification of a two-resistance exchange interface simulation model. Atmos. Envir. 36:847-859.
• Zhang, H, and S.E. Lindberg. 2001. Sunlight and iron(III)-induced photochemical production of dissolved gaseous elemental mercury in fresh water. Envir. Sci. & Technol. 35: 928-935.
• Lindberg, S.E., A. Vette, C. Miles, and F. Schaedlich. 2000. Application of an automated mercury analyzer to field speciation measurements: Results for dissolved gaseous mercury in natural waters. Biogeochemistry 48(2):237-259.
• Zhang, H., and S.E. Lindberg. 1999. Processes influencing the emission of mercury from soils: a conceptual model. J. Geophys. Res. 104:21889-21896.
• Lindberg, S.E., P.J. Hanson, T.P. Meyers, and K-Y Kim. 1998. Micrometeorological studies of air/surface exchange of mercury over forest vegetation and a reassessment of continental biogenic mercury emissions. Atmos. Envir. 32:895-908.
• Lindberg, S. E., and W.J. Stratton. 1998. Atmospheric mercury speciation: Concentrations and behavior of reactive gaseous mercury in ambient air. Envir. Sci. & Technol. 32:49-57.
• Lindberg, S. E. 1996. Forests and the Global Biogeochemical Cycle of Mercury: The Importance of Understanding Air/vegetation Exchange Processes. pp. 359-380. IN W. Baeyens, R. Ebinghaus, O. Vasiliev (Eds.), Global and Regional Mercury Cycles: Sources, Fluxes and Mass Balances. NATO ASI Series, Vol. 21. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
• Lindberg, S.E., K-H. Kim, T.P. Meyers, and J.G. Owens. 1995. A micrometeorological gradient approach for quantifying air/surface exchange of mercury vapor: Tests over contaminated soils. Envir. Sci. & Technol. 29:126-135.
• Johnson, D.W., and S.E Lindberg (Eds.). 1992. Atmospheric Deposition and Forest Nutrient Cycling, Ecological Studies Vol. 91. Springer-Verlag, New York, 707 pp.
• Lindberg, S. E., and C. T. Garten, Jr. 1988. Sources of sulfur in forest canopy throughfall. Nature 336:148-151.
• Lindberg, S.E., G.M. Lovett, D.R. Richter, and D.W. Johnson. 1986. Atmospheric deposition and canopy interaction of major ions in a forest. Science 231:141-145.
• Lindberg, S.E., R.C. Harriss, and R.R. Turner. 1982. Atmospheric deposition of metals to a forest canopy. Science 215:1609-1611.
• Lindberg, S.E., and R.R. Turner. 1977. Mercury emissions from chlorine production solid waste deposits. Nature 268:133-136.

April 2005