Excerpt from the Baltimore Sun “Scientists are predicting that the Chesapeake Bay’s oxygen-starved “dead zone” will be slightly larger than average this summer. Using computer modeling underwritten by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, researchers forecast that by next month,… Read More ›
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Underwater Gliders For Ocean Research
After tests about 40 miles offshore Galveston, Texas A&M oceanographers declared two new Slocum gliders ready to deploy in the Gulf of Mexico. A team of scientists and technicians from the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), Department of Oceanography,… Read More ›
Acidification & Low-Oxygen Threatens Lowcountry Shellfish
That’s not a dire prediction linked to climate change. It’s already starting to happen as the ocean gets more acidic. And for the Lowcountry, ocean acidification might not even be the real threat. It might be what scientists call the one-two punch of acidification and low oxygen in the estuaries, the nursery for the shellfish we eat – shrimp, oysters, clams.
Most Polluted Oceans Named
IBTimes UK looks at the most polluted oceans areas and seas in the world. Atlantic Ocean – Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone The Gulf of Mexico is a basin in the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the gulf coast of the… Read More ›
Research To Add Oxygen to Dead Zones
May 19, 2014 CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study examining the impact of iron released from continental margin sediments has documented a natural limiting switch that may keep these ocean systems from developing a runaway feedback loop that could lead… Read More ›
Fishermen: No Debate About Climate Change
For many U.S. fisherman, there’s no debate about climate change. It’s here, and already majorly impacting their industries. In New Jersey, Rutgers scientists have documented for 24 years how climate change is affecting the state’s oceans through weekly fish surveys…. Read More ›
The Economist Discusses “The Tradgedy of the High Seas”
New management is needed for the planet’s most important common resource Feb 22nd 2014 | From the print edition The Economist IN 1968 an American ecologist, Garrett Hardin, published an article entitled “The Tragedy of the Commons”. He argued… Read More ›
$1Million Prize For Best Plan to Combat Dead Zones
edOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online In response to President Obama’s call for institutions and philanthropists to help find solutions to the world’s most pressing issues, Tulane University announced Monday that it would offer a $1 million… Read More ›
Marine Invertebrates At Risk to Climate Changes
Published 11 December 2013 Science Leave a Comment Proteomic response of marine invertebrate larvae to ocean acidification and hypoxia during metamorphosis and calcification Calcifying marine invertebrates with complex life cycles are particularly at risk to climate changes as they undergo an… Read More ›
Eddies and Ocean Hypoxia-A New View
A group of researchers from Germany argues that small-scale oceanic circulation patterns called eddies are responsible for controlling the concentration of oxygen in so-called oxygen-minimum zones (OMZ) of the Atlantic Ocean. Water hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation, is slowly becoming a… Read More ›
Neptune 911! 