1 Mercury flux to sediments of Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada 1 2 Paul E. Drevnick, *, 1, 2, 3 Avery L. C. Shinneman, 4 Carl H. Lamborg, 2 Daniel R. Engstrom, 5 3 Michael H. Bothner, 6 and James T. Oris 1 4 5 1. Department of Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA 6 2. Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 7 Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA 8 3. INRS-ETE, Université du Québec, 490 de la Couronne, Québec, QC G1K 9A9, Canada 9 4. Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, 10 Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA 11 5. St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota, 16910 152 nd Street 12 North, Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047, USA 13 6. Woods Hole Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, 14 MA 02543, USA 15 16 * Corresponding author; paul.drevnick@ete.inrs.ca; Tel.: +1 418 654 2519; Fax: +1 418 654 2600 17 18