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Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. 2010. Scientific Assessment of Hypoxia in U.S. Coastal Waters. Interagency Working Group on Harmful Algal Blooms, Hypoxia, and Human Health of the Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology. Washington, D.C. [PDF] [Authors: Elizabeth B. Jewett, Cary B. Lopez, David M. Kidwell, Suzanne B. Bricker, Marianne K. Burke, Mark R. Walbridge Peter M. Eldridge, Richard M. Greene, James D. Hagy III, Herbert T. Buxton, Robert J. Diaz, Cheryl Brown, Bill Peterson, Jay Peterson, and Cheryl Morgan] 

Dale, Virginia H., C.L. Kling, J.L. Meyer, J. Sanders, H. Stallworth, Th. Armitage, D. Wangsness, Th. Bianchi, A. Blumberg, W. Boynton, D.J. Conley, W. Crumpton, M. David, D. Gilbert, R.W. Howarth, R. Lowrance, K. Mankin, J. Opaluch, H. Paerl, K. Reckhow, A.N. Sharpley, Th.W. Simpson, C.S. Snyder, and D. Wright. 2010. Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Springer, New York. [related EPA report] 

Diaz, Robert J. and Rutger Rosenberg. 2008. "Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems." Science 321:926-929. [PDF] [supporting materials (PDF)] [news story]

Ecological Society of America. 2011. Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles. Special issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Vol 9, #1. Ecological Society of America. [Editorial introduction by F. Stuart Chapin, Mary E. Power, and Jonathan J. Cole.]  [news summary in ScienceDaily]

EPA Science Advisory Board. 2007. Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: An Update by the EPA Science Advisory Board. Report # EPA-SAB-08-003, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. [PDF]

Jackson, Jeremy B.C. 2008. "Ecological Extinction and Evolution in the Brave New Ocean." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(Suppl. 1):11458-11465. [PDF] [news story]

Philpott, Tom. 2013. "Why this year's Gulf dead zone is twice as big as last year's." Grist 15 August. 

Rabalais, Nancy and R. Eugene Turner. 2013. "Summer Hypoxic Zone Size Will Be Large." Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Gulf hypoxia in the news 18 June. [related website with news, graphics & animations] 

Townsend, Alan R. and Robert W. Howarth. 2010. "Fixing the Global Nitrogen Problem. Humanity depends on nitrogen to fertilize croplands, but growing global use is damaging the environment and threatening human health. How can we chart a more sustainable path?" Scientific American 302(2):32-39. [PDF] [related presentation "Human acceleration of the global nitrogen cycle" by Howarth (PDF)]

Vitousek, Peter M., John Aber, Robert W. Howarth, Gene E. Likens, Pamela A. Matson, David W. Schindler, William H. Schlesinger, and G. David Tilman. 1997. "Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle: Causes and Consequences." Issues in Ecology 1(Spring). [PDF]

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