Nutrient Reduction and Management Strategy

Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative

Secretarial Order No. 3289 establishes Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs), a network of public-private partnerships that provide shared science to ensure the sustainability of America's land, water, wildlife and cultural resources. Includes Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and other states. The mission of the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GCPO LCC) is to define, design and deliver landscapes capable of sustaining natural and cultural resources at desired levels now and into the future. The GCPO describes both a unique geographic region as well as a new kind of conservation partnership. We are part of a national network of Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs). LCCs are partnerships among federal agencies, regional organizations, states, tribes, NGOs, universities and others, all of whom leverage resources to define a common vision for sustaining natural resources within a region. The GCPO LCC conducts research, develops tools that improve natural resource management, and conducts outreach. The goal is to focus coordinated action and eliminate duplication to support shared conservation priorities across large connected areas, or landscapes.

Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan 2008 for Reducing, Mitigating, and Controlling Hypoxia

The 2008 Action Plan describes a national strategy to reduce, mitigate, and control hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and improve water quality in the Mississippi River Basin.

Gulf Hypoxia Monitoring Implementation Plan

Provide sufficient monitoring data to ensure that management is adequately informed in efforts to achieve the Coastal Goal. Assess annual changes in the magnitude, seasonality, duration, and distribution of hypoxia, and relate these to management activities that affect nutrient loading and other influences on hypoxia. Provide adequate data for predictive models to develop accurate forecasts of hypoxia given alternative management targets for nutrient reduction and alternative scenarios of climate change. Determine the relationship between hypoxic zone magnitude, timing, and distribution, and the distribution, production, and health of ecologically and commercially important finfish and shellfish.

Gulf of Mexico Alliance (GOMA)

Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas

The Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas provides answers to questions related to the physical environment, marine resources, and economic activity in the Gulf of Mexico. Information is presented in the form of map plates with descriptions, written by recognized subject matter experts, explaining how the data were gathered and how they are relevant. The Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas has data from federal, state, non-governmental agencies, and academia. Web-based mapping abilities.

Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Watch

A web-based data viewer. The objective of Hypoxia Watch is to develop new near-real time data and map products using shipboard measurements of bottom-dissolved oxygen and disseminate them over the Internet. The data collected from annual Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) summer groundfish surveys is used to generate products that form the basis for summertime advisories on anoxic and hypoxic conditions in the north-central Gulf of Mexico.

Gulf of Mexico Initiative (GoMI)

The Gulf of Mexico Initiative (GoMI) is designed to help producers in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas improve water quality and ensure sustainable production of food and fiber. GoMI will deliver up to $50 million in financial and easement assistance over 3 years in 16 priority watersheds. Assistance will help producers apply sustainable agricultural and wildlife habitat management systems that maintain agricultural productivity; avoid, control, and trap nutrient runoff; and reduce sediment transport. GoMI also will reduce current over-use of water resources and prevent saltwater from entering the habitats of many threatened and endangered species. NRCS programs supporting GoMI are the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program, Conservation Stewardship Program, Wetlands Reserve Program, Grassland Reserve Program, and Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program.

Hammond Nutrient Trading Project

From 2004. Subsegments 040503, 040505; Ponchatoula Creek and Yellow Water River; Watershed Survey Report Nutrient Trading Pilot Project in Impaired River Segments in Ponchatoula Creek and Yellow Water River, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Amendments Act of 2004

Mandates that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) advance the scientific understanding and ability to detect, monitor, assess, and predict HABs and hypoxia events in coastal waters and the Great Lakes. In 2004, Congress reauthorized and expanded HABHRCA by passing the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Amendments Act required federal agencies to assess HABs to include freshwater and estuarine environments and develop reports and plans to reduce the likelihood of HAB formation and to mitigate their damage.

Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998

To address cyanobacterial HABs that impacted living marine resources, fish and shellfish harvests and recreational and service industries along the U.S. coastal waters. Title VI of Public Law 105-383, section 604(b), enacted on 13 November 1998.