AGENDA

Narragansett Bay Coastal Hypoxia Research Project and State Managers Meeting

October 8, 2009

9:00 am to Noon

9:00 am______Introduction, Candace Oviatt, PhD, URI-GSO

9:05 am______Update from State Managers

Management, Current Goals and Activities

● Wastewater Treatment (Angelo Libierti, RIDEM)

Progress to date:

o Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement

o Implementation of RI Nutrient Reduction Strategy, wastewater treatment upgrades

o EPA Permitting of WWTFs in MA

o Other nutrient reduction strategies

Nutrient Criteria Development (Kiernan, RIDEM)

9:30 am______Update from Researchers

Hypoxia in Narragansett Bay, Summer 2009

Heather Stoffel, URI-GSO

Hypoxia in Narragansett Bay, Summer 2009

Christopher Deacutis, PhD, NBEP

9:45 am______Narragansett Bay Hydrodynamics (Chris Kincaid, PhD, URI-GSO)

• Update on hydrodynamic modeling
• Greenwich Bay Circulation

Discussions: Implications/applications for management

10:15 am_____Break

10:30 am_____Ecological Modeling

Relating model daily average results to management criteria

Mark Brush, PhD, VIMS

Update on model development

Jamie Vaudrey, PhD, UCONN

Discussion: Management application of model

11:50 am____Wrap-up & Next Steps