Beyond Science into Policy: Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia and the Mississippi River

By N. Rabalais, R. Turner, D. Scavia. 2002

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Oceanography

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Citations in the corpus

• CLIMATE CHHANGE SENSITIVITY ASSESSMENT ON UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN STREAMFLOWS USING SWAT 1 (2006, unknown): “Nitrate loads discharged from the mouth of the Mississippi River have been implicated as the primary cause of the Gulf of Mexico seasonal oxygen depleted hypoxic zone, which covered nearly 20,000 km2 in 1999 (Rabalais et al., 2002).”
• State of the World’s Fisheries (2003, background): “These hypoxic areas can be extensive, covering over 20,000 km 2 in the Gulf of Mexico and the Black Sea and up to 70,000 km 2 in the Baltic Sea (30), with important economic and ecological implications (31).”
• The Nitrogen Cascade (2003, background): “The hypoxic water mass in the northern Gulf of Mexico has grown in size in recent summers to about 20,000 square kilometers and is clearly attributable to Nr pollution running down the Mississippi River (Goolsby et al. 1999, Rabalais et al. 1999, 2002, NRC 2000).”
• The jellyfish joyride: causes, consequences and management responses to a more gelatinous future. (2009, background): “During the summer of 2007 in the Gulf of Mexico, nutrient-rich outflows from the Mississippi River resulted in large phytoplankton blooms and 25 000 km2 of oxygen-depleted waters [ 32 ].”
• Chapter 14 – Nitrogen Transformations (2015, background): “For example, coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico suffer from eutrophication and hypoxia that have been linked to excess N from the Mississippi River Basin (Rabalais et al., 2002).”
• Eutrophication: A new wine in an old bottle? (2019, background): “In some areas, these environmental crises have become an urgent societal issue, involving a wide variety of stakeholders with contrasting values and interests (Rabalais et al., 2002; Smetacek and Zingone, 2013).”
• Water Quality Modeling for the Raccoon River Watershed Using SWAT (2006, background): “The nitrate load discharged from the mouth of the Mississippi River has been implicated as the primary cause of the seasonal oxygen-depleted hypoxic zone that occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, which has covered upwards of 20,000 km2 in recent years (Rabalais et al., 2002).”
• Biomarkers of hypoxia exposure and reproductive function in Atlantic croaker: a review with some preliminary findings from the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone. (2009, background): “…of seasonal hypoxia in the bottom water of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico has doubled in size over the past 20 years from an average area of 8300 km2 during the late 1980s, to over 16,000 km2 in subsequent years, making it one of largest hypoxic regions in the world (Rabalais et al., 2002, 2007).”
• Linking Landscape and Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin for 200 Years (2003, background): “Water-quality changes in the lower Mississippi River in this century can be linked in a plausible causeand-effect relationship to the formation of a 20,000-squarekilometer (km2) low-oxygen zone in coastal waters (Rabalais et al. 2002).”