Table 1.

Ratios of water column suspended particle:sediment MeHg and water column dissolved:sediment pore water MeHg for sites sampled in 2009 and data from literature sources. Arranged from higher to lower ratios within each study.

Site	Suspended particle:sediment MeHg	Site	Dissolved:pore water MeHg	Reference
		LIS-W	0.202	Current study
WH	46.3	LIS-E	0.103
MC	9.95	MC	0.096
WD	2.85	BB	0.066
BB	1.62	WD	0.051
JEL	0.632	WH	0.050
LIS-W1	0.496	PNS	0.043
PNS	0.486	JEL	0.023
LIS-E1	0.157	WM	0.016
Buzzards Bay (MA)	21.7			Chen et al., 2014
Barn Island (CT)	11.1
Waquoit (MA)	10.7
Jamaica Bay (NY)	4.71
Providence (RI)	1.56
Hackensack (NJ)	0.579
Wells (ME)	0.330
Old Saybrook (CT)	0.241
Portsmouth (NH)	0.185
Milford (CT)	0.113
NY/NJ Harbor (2002)	1.15		0.007	Balcom et al., 2008
	1.14		0.005	Hammerschmidt et al., 2008
	1.01		0.004
	0.749		0.004
Hudson R. ETM (2001)	1.39		0.651	Heyes et al., 2004
Delaware R. ETM (2012)	1.33		0.603	Mason et al., 2014
	0.750		0.383
	0.773		0.327
Mesocosm Experiment	16.22			Kim et al., 2006
	6.22
	2.83
	1.53

Notes:

¹LIS water column MeHg data from Schartup et al. (2015)

²no sediment resuspension;

³resuspended sediment