Using oyster aquaculture as a nutrient capture and removal system may be a viable auxiliary approach to bridge the gap when agricultural best management practices, such as conservation tillage, fails to meet targeted nutrient source reduction milestones.  In some basins, substantial production of cultivated oysters could offset approximately 10 to 15% of the excess total nitrogen load.

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Nearly one-fifth of the earth’s surface is comprised of mountains that play a role in the storage and distribution of fresh water, with one-tenth of the world’s population relying on that mountain snowpack as their sole source of fresh water. Understanding the amount of pollutants in soil and snow is critical to maintaining the quality of alpine water sources, and is the subject of a study published in the Fall 2010 issue of Soil Survey Horizons, published by the Soil Science Society of America.