In a state of flux: the energetic pathways that move contaminants from aquatic to terrestrial environments.

Today, interest continues to grow in the potential aquatic-toterrestrial transport of contaminants through movement of insects, birds, reptiles, and other organisms or via the energetic pathways that quintessentially link aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. John Muir. Henry David Thoreau. Theodore Roosevelt. Rachel Carson. Preservationists, conservationists, politicians, scientists, authors, and many others have impacted the way we view and value our environment. The 1962 publication of Carson’s Silent Spring not only awakened the public to the problem of environmental contaminants, but also prompted a change in the lens through which scientists view contaminated ecosystems. Despite the debates Carson’s book sparked, she raised a heightened awareness of chemicals, how they affect entire ecosystems, and our collective responsibility for their use [1].