Greetings! I'd like to bring your attention to an exciting session (details below) to be held at the International Association of Great Lakes Research annual meeting, May 25-29, 2015, in beautiful Burlington, Vermont. Abstract submission deadline is January 23, 2015. Please contact either of the session chairs below if you have questions or need additional information. Thanks!
http://www.iaglr.org/iaglr2015/ Session 49. Holy Toledo! Nitrogen in the Great Lakes (Yes, Nitrogen): Blooms, Cyanotoxins, and Hypoxia Chaired by Mark McCarthy and Silvia Newell Mark J. McCarthy, University of Texas Marine Science Institute, 750 Channel View Drive, Port Aransas, TX 78373; E-mail: [email protected]. Silvia E. Newell, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Dayton, OH 45345; E-mail: [email protected]. The role of nitrogen loads to lakes has been largely ignored in many recent high-profile publications and reports (e.g., IJC and EPA reports on Great Lakes eutrophication) despite many troubling facts: (1) the main organisms causing the detrimental effects (e.g., Toledo water crisis) cannot fix atmospheric nitrogen; (2) a focus on phosphorus control has not prevented these blooms from occurring; (3) there is a known connection between cyanobacteria toxicity and nitrogen metabolism; and (4) excess nitrogen causes severe eutrophication effects (e.g., hypoxia) in downstream systems. This session seeks experimental, monitoring, modeling, and review abstracts aimed at defining and identifying the role of nitrogen in causing and/or maintaining eutrophication in aquatic systems along the freshwater-marine continuum. We especially seek abstracts expressing "New Views" on eutrophication in lakes and/or using "New Tools" (e.g., genomics, buoy deployments, models) to support these views.
