Watershed Academy Webcast Seminars

EPA’s Watershed Academy is pleased to sponsor its 37th free Webcast Seminar.

Webcast on Tues. Oct. 7, 2008

"Moving Forward on Gulf Hypoxia"

by Benjamin H. Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, U.S. EPA, Nancy Rabalais, Ex. Director and Professor, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Darrell Brown, Associate Director, Oceans and Coastal Protection Division, U.S. EPA, and John Kessler, Assistant Chief, Division of Soil and Water Conservation, Ohio Department of Natural Resources

In 2008, the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico was the second largest on record - bigger than the State of Massachusetts, and the second largest in the world, after the Baltic Sea. This oxygen-depleted water, referred to as the hypoxic zone, is largely caused by nitrogen and phosphorus pollution mainly from the Upper Mississippi and Ohio River Basins. In 1997, a partnership of federal, state, and tribal agencies established the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force to understand the causes and effects of hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico and to coordinate activities to help reduce the hypoxic zone. The Task Force developed a 2001 Action Plan for Reducing, Mitigating, and Controlling Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. In spring 2008, they completed a reassessment of the science, and in June released an updated 2008 Action Plan. Join us for this Webcast to learn more about the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico, improvements in the 2008 Action Plan, and how EPA and other federal agencies and state agencies are implementing actions to reduce nutrient pollution and improve water quality in the Mississippi River Basin.

• Flyer on Oct 7 Webcast (PDF)- (1 pg, 89K, About PDF)
• Register for Webcast
• Copy of PowerPoint presentation for Oct. 7, 2008 Webcast (PDF) - (42 pp, 3.2MB, About PDF)