Scientists are using hi-tech science and fingerprinting human waste to identify nitrogen and stop red tide blooms in Tampa Bay from entering through the Hillsborough River.
Equipped with high hopes and an arsenal of cutting-edge technology, scientists have embarked on a new quest to scope out the sources of Tampa Bay’s pollution. Is the water at your favorite bayside park dirty from a leaky sewage pipe? An upstream farm? Your neighbor’s over-fertilized lawn? That’s the central question driving a new, two-year study that will document the health of Tampa Bay’s .