Agricultural Runoff and Water Quality: Nutrient Loading Impacts and Management Strategies

October 21st, 2014
3:00pm
Senate Russell 385

Topic: How agricultural runoff contributes to "dead zones" and harmful algal blooms in coastal and inland waters, the importance of weather and climate factors, and what the agricultural community can do to help improve water quality.

Speakers:

Dr. Nancy Rabalais - Executive Director, Lousiana Universities Marine Consortium

Dr. Jeffrey Reutter - Director Ohio Sea Grant College Program and Stone Laboratory, Ohio State University

Dr. Harold van Es - Professor of Soil and Water Management and Director, Initiative on Computational Agriculture, Cornell University

Presented by the American Meteorlogical Society Policy Program, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.

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A video recording of the briefing is now available online here.