Introduction: Crossing Boundaries. Natural History of a Contaminant. Dangerous Attractions: Mercury in Human History. Mercury in the Environment through Sculpture, Film, and Theatre. Writing as Environmental Stewardship. A Sociological perspective: Is Tuna Safe? Mercury by the Numbers. Mercury in the Media. Fact or Fiction? Engaged Scholarship: Environmental Service. Environmental Politics. Conclusion: Through Your Eyes.
As codirector of the Mercury Global Inquiry Group,
Sharon L. Zuber organized faculty and student
exchanges with Central China Normal University and the 2010
International Mercury EXPO, as well as mentored undergraduate
student research video projects about mercury pollution. In 2006
she was invited to speak at a Symposium on Teaching and Research in
Academic Writing at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. In 2008 she
was area chair for “Environmental Documentaries” for the Film &
History Conference. She teaches writing-intensive courses and works
with faculty across the curriculum teaching freshman seminars. Her
research interests focus on nonfiction writing and documentary
filmmaking and include a comparison between New Journalist writers
and Direct Cinema filmmakers, movements that emerged in the 1960s
in the United States Her documentary films include They Live in
Guinea (1996), a video about the Gloucester, Virginia, watermen;
Master of the Flame (2004), a documentary about glass artist Emilio
Santini; Mercury on the Move (2008), a short about the research
about mercury in songbirds by Professor Daniel Cristol; and
Mercury: A Hazard without Borders (2009), a film about the history
and issues surrounding mercury pollution. She has published in
College English, Post Script, and Film & History.
Michael C. Newman is currently the A. Marshall
Acuff, Jr. Professor of Marine Science at the College of William
and Mary's School of Marine Science where he also served as Dean of
Graduate Studies from 1999 to 2002. Previously, he was a faculty
member at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology
Laboratory. His research interests include quantitative
ecotoxicology, environmental statistics, risk assessment,
population effects of contaminants, metal chemistry, and
bioaccumulation and biomagnifications modeling.
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