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Update-Science Symposium: Sources, Transport, and Fate of Nutrients in the Missi
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Gia Grier
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Sep 22, 2006 20:55 PDT
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Science Symposium: Sources, Transport, and Fate of Nutrients in the
Mississippi and Atchafalaya River Basins
*Date: November 7-9 2006
*Location: Millenium Hotel, Minneapolis, MN
*Web site: www.tetratech-ffx.com/nutrient_fate_symposium/
(The Web site has a preliminary agenda with invited speakers, as well as
hotel registration and travel information. Note: the hotel's preferred
rate booking deadline is October 16th, 2006)
This symposium is free to attend, but you must pre-register on the Web
site, www.tetratech-ffx.com/nutrient_fate_symposium/ , to ensure that
you will get symposium materials.
This symposium is the fourth in a series of symposiums sponsored by the
Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force
(www.epa.gov/msbasin/taskforce/actionplan.htm ). This symposium will
focus on recent scientific findings about the sources, transport, and
fate of nutrients in the Mississippi and Atchafalaya River Basins. Key
topics will be addressed at various scales from small watersheds to
large rivers, including the effects of these processes on nutrient
delivery to the Gulf of Mexico.
This symposium, as well as the previous three symposiums, is a part of
the reassessment of the Action Plan for Reducing, Controlling, and
Mitigating Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (Action Plan).
Short-term action item #11 from the Action Plan (p. 14) states that "By
December 2005, and every five years thereafter, the Task Force will
assess the nutrient load reductions achieved and the response of the
hypoxic zone, water quality throughout the Basin, and economic and
social effects. Based on this assessment, the Task Force will determine
appropriate actions to continue to implement this strategy, or, if
necessary, revise the strategy."
This symposium is sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; the U.S.
Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey; and the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water.
More information?
Visit the Web site at:
www.tetratech-ffx.com/nutrient_fate_symposium/
or contact:
Janice R. Ward, Senior Hydrologist, Address: US Geological Survey,
Denver Federal Center, Box 25046, MS401, Lakewood, CO 80225, E-mail:
jwa-@usgs.gov, Phone: 303-236-1871, Fax: 303-236-1880
OR:
Katie Flahive, Address: US Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code
4503T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20460, E-mail:
flahive-@epa.gov, Phone: 202-566-1206, Fax: 202-566-1437
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