U.S. Geological Circular 1270
Prepared by the Monitoring, Modeling, and Research Workgroup, Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force
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This Monitoring, Modeling, and Research (MMR) Strategy was developed under the auspices of the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force. It describes a framework for monitoring, modeling, and research activities that will support management decisions related to achieving the three major goals: improving water-quality conditions in the Mississippi River Basin, reducing hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico, and improving the communities and economic conditions, in particular the agriculture, fisheries and recreation sectors, across the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basins. The Strategy describes the scientific information needed to support management actions and defines the scope, interrelation, and framework of the activities needed to provide that information. It describes existing programs and activities that contribute to the needed framework, identifies gaps and limitations in those existing activities, and outlines actions and resources needed to overcome those gaps and limitations. This information is provided in three areas of activities for both the Mississippi River Basin, including the Deltaic Plain, and the Northern Gulf of Mexico:
The Strategy also outlines mechanisms of coordination that are necessary to insure complete and timely transfer of the needed scientific information to decisionmakers and identifies resource needs required to provide the scientific information necessary to implement the Task Force Action Plan in a manner that enables management actions to adapt to new and changing scientific information. This Strategy is not an implementation plan and does not include a schedule of actions and associated costs for implementing those actions. It does provide valuable guidance to such an implementation plan.
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
Purpose of the Monitoring, Modeling, and Research Strategy
Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin
Relation to Management Action
Other Publications
MONITORING, MODELING, AND RESEARCH IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN
Basin Monitoring and Reporting
Needed Framework for Monitoring and Reporting
Existing Monitoring and Reporting Activities
Limitations in Existing Activities and Related Science Needs
Needed Coordination, Information Sharing, Synthesis, and Reporting
Basin Modeling and Research
Needed Framework for Modeling and Research
Nutrient Cycling
Management Practices Affecting Nutrient Transport in Watersheds
Watershed Models of Nutrient Dynamics and Management Activities
Existing Modeling and Research Activities
Limitations in Existing Activities and Related Science Needs
Needed Coordination, Information Sharing, Synthesis, and Reporting
Basin Social and Economic Research
Needed Framework for Social and Economic Research
Existing Social and Economic Research Activities
Limitations in Existing Activities and Related Science Needs
Needed Coordination, Information Sharing, Synthesis, and Reporting
MONITORING, MODELING, AND RESEARCH IN THE GULF OF MEXICO
Gulf Monitoring and Reporting
Needed Framework for Monitoring and Reporting
Existing Monitoring and Reporting Activities
Limitations in Existing Activities and Related Science Needs
Needed Coordination, Information Sharing, Synthesis, and Reporting
Gulf Modeling and Research
Needed Framework for Modeling and Research
Existing Modeling and Research Activities
Limitations in Existing Activities and Related Science Needs
Needed Coordination, Information Sharing, Synthesis, and Reporting
Gulf Social and Economic Research
Needed Framework for Social and Economic Research
Existing Social and Economic Research Activities
Limitations in Existing Activities and Related Science Needs
Needed Coordination, Information Sharing, Synthesis, and Reporting
COORDINATION AND INFORMATION NEEDS
Overall Coordination
Basin – Gulf Coordination
Other Information Needs
RESOURCE NEEDS
REFERENCES
APPENDIX I: MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS
APPENDIX II: PARTICIPANTS IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER/GULF OF MEXICO WATERSHED NUTRIENT TASK FORCE, MONITORING, MODELING, AND RESEARCH WORKSHOP
Suggested Citation:
Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force, 2004, A Science Strategy to Support Management Decisions Related to Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and Excess Nutrients in the Mississippi River Basin: prepared by the Monitoring, Modeling, and Research Workgroup of the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1270, 58 p.
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