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EPA
- 2008 Action Plan – Mississippi River Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force
- 2009 Annual Operating Plan – Mississippi River Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force
- Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico – An Update by the EPA Science Advisory Board (2007)
- Hypoxia-Causing Nutrient Reduction Success Stories
- Report from the National Academies Recommending New Initiative to Better Monitor Nutrients Across the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico by the EPA and USDA (2008)
- Journal of Science: Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems
- Journal of Science: Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems – Supporting Material
USGS
- Ranking and Confidence Intervals for Top 150 Watersheds with highest delivered yields to the Gulf
- Nutrient Flux for the Mississippi River Basin and Subbasins
- Streamflow and Nutrient Delivery to the Gulf of Mexico for October 2007 to June 2008 (Preliminary)
- Sources and Transport of Nitrogen in the Mississippi River Basin
- Real-time Streamflow and Water Quality (Mississippi River Basin Discharge to the Gulf)
- Mississippi River Basin Streamflow and Water Quality Information
- Models Describing Sources and Potential Causal Factors for Excess Nutrients in the Mississippi River Basin
- USGS Publications on Nutrients in the Mississippi River Basin and Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico
US Army Corps of Engineers
The National Academies
- Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
- The Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act: Scientific, Modeling, and Technical Aspects of Nutrient Pollutant Load Allocation and Implementation
- Corn-based ethanol production compromises goal of reducing nitrogen export by the Mississippi River
Environmental Working Group
Other Scientific Reports
- Predicting the response of Gulf of Mexico hypoxia to variations in Mississippi River nitrogen load (2003)
- Predicting summer hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Riverine N, P, and Si loading (2005)
- Mississippi River Water Quality: Implications for Coastal Restoration
- UMRSHNC Final Report: Gulf Hypoxia and Local Water Quality Concerns Workshop
- Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia: Alternate States and a Legacy
- Top nutrient contributors to dead zone identified
- Northeast-Midwest Institute: Adequacy of Research on Upper Mississippi-Illinois River Navigaion Project
- Cornell University: Biofuels: Environmental Consequences and Interaction with Changing Land Use