In the last segment of a three-part video series on Great Lakes dead zones, Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute director Don Scavia discusses federal policy and economic constraints to addressing agricultural contamination in the Great Lakes.
Scavia and Pete Richards, senior research scientist at Heidelberg University in Ohio, recently hosted a workshop on clues about why the rates of agricultural nutrients are on the rise in the Great Lakes watershed.
Part I is here. Part II is here.
This workshop was part of the Agricultural Conference on the Environment held at The Lansing Center on Jan. 27. 2011.
Video by Bonnie Bucqueroux
Check out Echo’s coverage of hypoxia in the Great Lakes:
– “Hypoxia in Great Lakes, elsewhere to worsen with climate change”
– “Low oxygen, mercury pollution interaction may pose even greater threat to Great Lakes”