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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A GUEST SPEAKERS AT COMMITTEE MEETINGS." National Research Council. 2012. Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico: Strategies and Priorities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13029.
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Appendix A

GUEST SPEAKERS AT COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Federal Agencies

Kenneth Barr, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island, Illinois

Darrell Brown, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Tom Christensen, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, D.C.

Michael Haire, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Sharon Hayes, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Susan Holdsworth, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Ephraim King, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Charles Kovatch, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Aaron Lauster, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Grayling, Michigan

Ken Lubinski, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, LaCrosse, Wisconsin

Robert Magnien, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland

Dale Robertson, U.S. Geological Survey, Middleton, Wisconsin

Peter Silva, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Michael Sullivan, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Little Rock, Arkansas

Tom Wall, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Jane Watson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas, Texas

State Agencies

Wayne Anderson, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paul

Jim Baumann, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison

Bill Ehm, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines

Russell Frydenborg, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee

Gregg Good, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Springfield

Corky Perret (ret.), Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, Biloxi

Chris Piehler, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, Baton Rouge

Mike Wells, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Jefferson City

Nonprofit and Research Organizations

David Hokanson, Upper Mississippi River Basin Association, St. Paul, Minnesota

Kevin Sellner, Chesapeake Research Consortium, Inc., Edgewater, Maryland

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A GUEST SPEAKERS AT COMMITTEE MEETINGS." National Research Council. 2012. Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico: Strategies and Priorities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13029.
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Most water resources managers, scientists, and other experts would agree that nonpoint source pollution is a more pressing and challenging national water quality problem today than point source pollution. Nonpoint sources of pollutants include parking lots, farm fields, forests, or any source not from a discrete conveyance such as a pipe or canal. Of particular concern across the Mississippi River basin (MRB) are high levels of nutrient loadings--nitrogen and phosphorus--from both nonpoint and point sources that ultimately are discharged into the northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOM). Nutrients emanate from both point and nonpoint sources across the river basin, but the large majority of nutrient yields across the MRB are nonpoint in nature and are associated with agricultural activities, especially applications of nitrogen-based fertilizers and runoff from concentrated animal feeding operations.

Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico offers strategic advice and priorities for addressing MRB and NGOM water quality management and improvements. Although there is considerable uncertainty as to whether national water quality goals can be fully realized without some fundamental changes to the CWA, there is general agreement that significant progress can be made under existing statutory authority and budgetary processes.

This book includes four sections identifying priority areas and offering recommendations to EPA and others regarding priority actions for Clean Water Act implementation across the Mississippi River basin. These sections are: USDA's Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative; Numeric Water Quality Criteria for the northern Gulf of Mexico; A Basinwide Strategy for Nutrient Management and Water Quality; and, Stronger Leadership and Collaboration.

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