Week Two: July1- July 5

Wednesday ( July 3): Nutrients as Pollutants

Reading (option) Eutrophication: http://www.umanitoba.ca/institutes/fisheries/eutro.html Hypoxia in the Gulf Of Mexico: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/gulfmex/html/rabalais.htm Lake Erie Dead Zone:  http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/102404704179870.xml Eutrophic condition and Symptoms in the Nation's Estuaries: http://state-of-coast.noaa.gov/bulletins/html/eut_18/appendices.html USGS Nutrient Data sets: http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/nutrients/index.html

PowerPoint Presentation / Overhead

Protecting the Great Lakes: Legislation and Organizations /overhead Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico /overhead Remote Sensing of Water Quality /overhead

More references Agricultural Impacts on the Gulf of Mexico: http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/agri/eintro.html A history of eutrophication modeling in Lake Erie, paper by James J. Fitzpatrick http://www.ijc.org/boards/cglr/modsum/fitzpatrick.html Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Assessment (report on six topics): http://www.nos.noaa.gov/products/pubs_hypox.html#Topic3 Nutrients in the Mississippi Basin-Estimating Sources and Predicting Flux to the Gulf of Mexico http://ks.water.usgs.gov/Kansas/pubs/fact-sheets/fs.135-00.html

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