PARTICIPANTS  

Summit for Finding Common Ground in Controlling Agricultural Nonpoint Sources of Nutrients

THE SUMMIT

Purpose

Accepted Principles

Central Questions

Participants

Logistics

Reports

EUTROPHICATION

What is it?

U.S. Assessments

International Efforts

Management Programs

AGRICULTURAL SOURCES

Relative Importance

Fertilizers

Animal Wastes

Soil Mineralization

Management Practices

Cover Crops

POLICIES

Economic Analyses

Clean Water Act

State Statutes

Pending Legislation


Richard Alexander, U.S. Geological Survey

James Baker, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University

Donald Boesch, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Russell Brinsfield, Maryland Center for Agro-Ecology, University of Maryland

Mark David, Department of Natural Resources, University of Illinois

Thomas Fretz, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland

Robert Howarth, Ocean Programs, Environmental Defense

Daniel Jaynes, National Soil Tilth Laboratory

Dennis Keeney, Leopold Center, Iowa State University

Richard Lowrance, Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service

William Mitsch, School of Natural Resources, Ohio State University

Hans Paerl, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina

Nancy Rabalais, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium

Gyles Randall, Department of Soil, Water and Climate, University of Minnesota

Don Scavia, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

James Schepers, Agricultural Research Service, University of Nebraska

Leonard Shabman, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech University

Andrew Sharpley, Pasture Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service

Thomas Simpson, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland

Kenneth Staver, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland

Alan Townsend, Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado

 

Last updated September 17, 2001