Extra time on your hands during February? Looking to stay informed while staying out of the season’s cold and snow?
Stay warm and settle in for an engaging set of seminars on trends in nutrients in surface and groundwater across the U.S. Review one of the recordings from the Iowa Nutrient Research Center’s Fall 2024 seminar series or binge watch all four sessions, highlighting the status of nutrients and water quality in watersheds across the country.
“INRC’s fall 2024 seminars were the center’s most popular to date,” said Matt Helmers, INRC director. “The series encompassed a lot of important data about watersheds recognized as important locally and nationally, presented by some leading researchers. So it seems worthwhile to remind people that the seminar recordings are available free on our website.”
Find the following seminar presentations at Fall 2024 - Trends | Iowa Nutrient Research Center:
- Nitrate in Nebraska, presented in September by Troy Gilmore, associate professor and groundwater hydrologist, University of Nebraska. Gilmore provides an overview of key factors impacting groundwater nitrate levels in Nebraska and discussed three studies examining groundwater chemistry and isotope analysis, visual indicators of groundwater nitrate levels, and age of groundwater inputs and nitrate concentrations along the length of Bazile Creek.
- Long-Term Nutrient Trends from the Mississippi River Basin, presented in October by Lori Sprague, national program manager, Integrated Water Availability Assessments (IWAAs) Program, U.S. Geological Survey. Sprague shared data on annual and long-term trends in nutrient transport through the Mississippi river basin and on the size of the Gulf hypoxic zone, as well as on methods for trend assessment and possible factors affecting trends.
- Nutrient and Sediment Loads Measured from the Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Network, presented in November, by Jimmy Webber, hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey. Webber discussed changes in surface water nutrient and sediment loads over time in the Chesapeake Bay watershed as recorded by the Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Network.
- Agricultural Phosphorus and Lake Erie, presented in December by Nathan Manning, research scientist, National Center for Water Quality Research, Heidelberg, University. Manning examined phosphorus loadings to the Western Basin of Lake Erie as assessed through the Heidelberg Tributary Loading Program, and watershed characteristics, including land use, influencing nutrient loads.
A new INRC seminar series launched Feb. 12, 2025, bringing “Insights from Next Gen Water Researchers” from current and recent Iowa State University graduate students. The spring hybrid seminars take place the second Wednesday of each month through May, from 3:10-4:00 p.m. (CDT), at 1306 Elings Hall on campus and virtually. To participate online, register at: https://go.iastate.edu/WYDMXJ.
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