Submission of Pathway Diagram: Your group must construct a Pathway Diagram. Make sure you mention what your topic is.

Example of previous student

The title of the Pathway diagram illustrating global temperature increase’s ocean warming and its effect on methylmercury poisoning in the Pacific Islands.

Reference of the diagram:

1.Sunderland, E. M., Krabbenhoft, D. P., Moreau, J. W., Strode, S. A., & Landing, W. M. (2009). Mercury sources, distribution, and bioavailability in the North Pacific Ocean: Insights from data and models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 23(2).

2.Mason, R. P., Fitzgerald, W. F., & Morel, F. M. (1994). The biogeochemical cycling of elemental mercury: anthropogenic influences. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58(15), 3191-3198.

3.Hansen, J., Sato, M., Ruedy, R., Lo, K., Lea, D. W., & Medina-Elizade, M. (2006). Global temperature change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(39), 14288-14293.

4.Schuster, P. F., Schaefer, K. M., Aiken, G. R., Antweiler, R. C., Dewild, J. F., Gryziec, J. D., … & Liu, L. (2018). Permafrost stores a globally significant amount of mercury. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(3), 1463-1471.

5.Schuur, E. A., McGuire, A. D., Schädel, C., Grosse, G., Harden, J. W., Hayes, D. J., … & Natali, S. M. (2015). Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback. Nature, 520(7546), 171-179.

6.Dijkstra, J. A., Buckman, K. L., Ward, D., Evans, D. W., Dionne, M., & Chen, C. Y. (2013). Experimental and Natural Warming Elevates Mercury Concentrations in Estuarine Fish. PLoS ONE, 8(3). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058401

7.Maulvault, A. L., Custódio, A., Anacleto, P., Repolho, T., Pousão, P., Nunes, M. L., … Marques, A. (2016). Bioaccumulation and elimination of mercury in juvenile sea bass (Dicentrarchuslabrax)in a warmer environment. Environmental Research, 149, 77–85. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.04.035

8.Karatela, S., Ward, N., & Paterson, J. (2019). Mercury exposure in mother-children pairs in a seafood eating population: Body burden and related factors. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(12), 2238. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16122238

9.Silbernagel, S. M., Carpenter, D. O., Gilbert, S. G., Gochfeld, M., Groth, E., 3rd, Hightower, J. M., & Schiavone, F. M. (2011). Recognizing and preventing overexposure to methylmercury from fish and seafood consumption: information for physicians. Journalof toxicology, 2011, 983072. https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/983072

10.Rice, K. M., Walker, E. M., Jr, Wu, M., Gillette, C., & Blough, E. R. (2014). Environmental mercury and its toxic effects. Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi, 47(2), 74–83. https://doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.2014.47.2.7

The explanation about the pathway diagram is:

Connecting climate change to the illness that you’re investigating. As well as, The goal of the path or diagram is to follow along as you can see the arrows. What causes what? and then how? Some of these intermediate causal factors leads to your ultimate illness. It could be multiple causal factors. It could be a single directly from climate change directly to That illness. For example, if you are looking at heatstroke, it is pretty easy to follow along that if there’s more and more temperature increase And if there’s more heat waves, just a single increase of temperature more frequency of heat waves. Will lead to more heatstroke, there’s a direct linkage there. No question asked about it. However, there may be additional indirect linkages that you also have to explore, as well as non climatic factors that you also have to explore. So this is our outset. That illness is mercury poisoning which mercury poisoning us to central nervous system damage in children and adults. You do not have to specify more of the illness, just the illness itself is more than enough this group specified, it’ll be more, but he doesn’t need to So this illness mercury poisoning. May or may not be connected to climate may or may not because mercury is emitted directly from human activity, such as burning fossil fuel. for power generation so called burning for power generation call has mercury so Mercury goes becomes part of the air becomes part of the water because of the burning process mining also leads to Mercury being released. And then the many other things stacked Mercury, the mercury can be released into the environment. That cool of the path of the diagram . The goal of the password diagram is to connect That increase of mercury poisoning this illness to climate. Weather change of climate has any effect of increase of mercury poisoning that what what is this diagram is about This diagram is not about that illness only is not about the illness and everything connecting to the illness. No, that’s not true. This diagram is about how is climate change. Impacting the increase of this illness. So because there may be other factors that are non climate This group listed some of those factors social factors social demographic lifestyle diet culture location and there may be some additional factors that may be like you feel like that they don’t belong here. And and then connect either directly or indirectly, depending on how your diagram looks like in here, this group use this box which is increased human exposure.