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Gulf Hypoxia Monitoring Stakeholder Committee

The Gulf Hypoxia Monitoring Stakeholder Committee was established to provide guidance to the Steering Committee for the Gulf Hypoxia Monitoring Implementation Plan.



Purpose of the Gulf Hypoxia Monitoring Stakeholder Committee

 

The Gulf Hypoxia Monitoring Stakeholder Committee was established to ascertain the needs of the stakeholder communities for a comprehensive, integrative, sustainable monitoring program for the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone (“Dead Zone”). The Committee will also determine the monitoring required to improve management of regional inshore hypoxia along the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Education and Outreach activities necessary to raise public awareness on the health and economic impacts of hypoxia.

 

NEW!

Hypoxia Workshop February '10 Agenda 

 

Click here for Draft Agenda for the February 2010 Workshop to Coordinate Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone Research.

 

For more information about the February 2010 Workshop, email Alan.Lewitus@noaa.gov

Links to Gulf Hypoxia Monitoring Stakeholder Committee Products

  

State Representatives to the Gulf Hypoxia Monitoring Stakeholder Committee

Alabama: Scott Phipps (red globe Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources)

Florida: Charles Kovach (red globe Florida Department of Environmental Protection)

Louisiana: Dugan Sabins and Kris Pintado (red globe Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality)

Gregory DuCote (red globe Louisiana Department of Natural Resources)

Mississippi: Henry Folmar (red globe Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality)

Texas: Mark Fisher (red globe Texas Commission on Environmental Quality)

Ed Buskey (red globe University of Texas)

 

Search Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Information

Access Hypoxia Data and Products by Searching the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Portal created by NOAA's National Coastal Data Development Center.

 

 

State Hypoxia Links

Alabama

red globe Oyster Reef Restoration in Bon Secour Bay, Alabama 

red globe Alabama Department of Environmental Management - Water Division

Florida

red globe Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission Preliminary 2005 Research Cruise

red globe Short-term Effects of a Low Dissolved Oxygen Event on Estuarine Fish Assemblages Following the Passage of Hurricane Charley

red globe Exploring Temporal and Spatial Variability in Nekton Community Structure in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Unraveling the Potential Influence of Hypoxia

Louisiana

red globe Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico: Research Activities of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium

Mississippi

red globe Mississippi Coastal Zone Management Program Section 309 Assessment and Strategy

Texas

red globe Hypoxia modeling in Corpus Christi Bay using a Hydrologic Information System

red globe WATERS Test Bed Site--Corpus Christi Bay

 

Federal Hypoxia Links

The Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force

The Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force consists of five federal agencies and ten state agencies.

 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 

Hypoxia Watch uses near-real-time shipboard measurements of bottom dissolved oxygen to create data and map products that show anoxic and hypoxic conditions in the western and north-central Gulf of Mexico.
 The goals of the hypoxia science assessment are to document the state of knowledge of the extent, characteristics, causes, and effects (both ecological and economic) of hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

To address the issue of hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research, is supporting multiyear, interdisciplinary research projects to develop a fundamental understanding of the northern Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. The focus is on the causes and effects of the hypoxic zone and the prediction of its future extent and impacts.

A product of the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory, this data visualization discusses the causes of hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. Run-time is 3:50.

Produced by NOAA's National Ocean Service

An overview of hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico for NOAA's Coastal Services Center.


Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force was established in the fall of 1997 as part of the government's plan to address hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

At the request the Office of Water, the EPA Science Advisory Board evaluated the state-of-the-science regarding the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone and prepared an updated science assessment.


U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

The USGS provides scientific information to support management actions intended to reduce excess nutrients in the Mississippi River Basin and hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

The USGS Toxics Program maintains a complete bibliography of publications produced by USGS researchers.