2009 Keeney Lecture: Gene Turner, Mississippi River Water Quality
Date: Thursday, November 12th, 2009 
Start: 8:00 pm
Location: Ames, Iowa
Mississippi River Water Quality: Policy, Farm Landscapes and Hypoxia
" A watershed problem requires a watershed solution. It will require a lot of people at the table, and we want that. Louisiana will benefit or hurt directly from Iowa’s actions." - R. Eugene Turner, on the solution to Gulf hypoxia
R. Eugene Turner is a Distinguished Research Master in the Coastal Ecology Institute and Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University. A hybrid oceanographer and wetland ecologist, he is active in the scientific aspects of coastal environmental management. In particular, his work addresses hypoxic zones, or Dead Zones, in which water oxygen levels are reduced to a level that can no longer support living aquatic organisms. Turner works regularly with The Land Institute and the Green Lands, Blue Waters Project on land use issues within the Mississippi River watershed.
Turner spoke for the 2009 Dennis Keeney Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the Leopold Center and the ISU Committee on Lectures. More than 300 people attended the lecture.
Photo: ISU graduate student Laura Christianson shares her research on bioreactors, designed to remove nitrate from tile water, with Turner (middle) and former Leopold Center director Dennis Keeney (right).
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