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The Louisiana shelf (LA shelf) in the northern Gulf of Mexico experiences hypoxic conditions every summer due to the combination of eutrophication and ...
Phytoplankton on Louisiana Shelf Show Seasonal Commonalities
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/phytoplankton-on-louisiana-shelf-show-seasonal-commonalities/
NCCOS sponsored researchers analyzed common phytoplankton taxa and accompanying environmental data for 672 surface water samples collected from 95 ...
Cyanobacteria Algal Bloom from Satellite in Lake Pontchartrain, LA ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/science-areas/habs/hab-monitoring-system/cyanobacteria-algal-bloom-from-satellite-in-lake-pontchartrain-la/
More information on NOAA's Louisiana lakes HAB Event Response. NOTE: Image quality will vary with clouds and satellite position (OLCI satellite ...
Researchers Test Oil Spill Damage Assessment Tool in Louisiana (Video)
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/preparedness-exercise-supports-future-testing-of-effects-of-oil-and-chemicals-in-nearshore-marsh-ecosystems/
For this event, the team deployed 12 mesocosm cages at two sites in the Little Lake area of Louisiana’s Pearl River bayou. The team collected local ...
Carbon Dynamics on the Louisiana Continental Shelf and Cross-Shelf ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/carbon-dynamics-on-the-louisiana-continental-shelf-and-cross-shelf-feeding-of-hypoxia/
Large-scale hypoxia regularly develops during the summer on the Louisiana continental shelf. Traditionally, hypoxia has been linked to the vast winter ...
Identifying Potential Wind Energy Areas in the Gulf of Mexico
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Our findings are promising. Two areas, located 24 nautical miles off the coast of Galveston, Texas, and 56 nautical miles off the coast of Lake ...
Numerical analysis of the primary processes controlling oxygen dynamics ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/numerical-analysis-of-the-primary-processes-controlling-oxygen-dynamics-on-the-louisiana-shelf/
The Louisiana shelf, in the northern Gulf of Mexico, receives large amounts of freshwater and nutrients from the Mississippi Atchafalaya river system ...
NOAA and Louisiana collaborate on Mississippi River Diversion Managment
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/noaa-and-louisiana-collaborate-coastal-wetland-restoration/
The 5th Annual NOAA/Northern Gulf Institute Gulf Hypoxia Research Coordination Workshop (see "previous workshops - 2014") brought together Louisiana ...
Dead Zone - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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The largest zone of oxygen-depleted coastal waters in the United States, and the second largest for the world’s coastal oceans, is in the northern ...
Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone fed by Nutrient Inputs from the Mississippi River
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/fuel-feeding-gulf-mexico-hypoxia-transports-nearshore-offshore-causing-dead-zone/
The NCCOS sponsored project, led by Louisiana State University and Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), integrates modeling ...
A high-resolution pre-operational forecast model of circulation on the ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/a-high-resolution-pre-operational-forecast-model-of-circulation-on-the-texas-louisiana-continental-shelf-and-slope/
A new pre-operational model of circulation over the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf and slope, based on the Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS) ...
Macrobenthos and megabenthos responses to long-term, large-scale ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/macrobenthos-and-megabenthos-responses-to-long-term-large-scale-hypoxia-on-the-louisiana-continental-shelf/
The macrobenthos and megabenthos responses to long-term, recurring hypoxia on the Louisiana continental shelf were compared at four locations with ...
Larger than Expected Summer ‘Dead Zone’ Measured in Gulf of Mexico
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/larger-than-expected-summer-dead-zone-measured-in-gulf-of-mexico/
The annual dead zone survey was led by scientists at Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) during a ...
Restoring Louisiana Wetlands Requires More Sediment, Say Scientists
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/river-diversions-for-restoring-louisiana-wetlands-will-require-sediments-say-scientists/
Based on a newly conducted study, an independent scientific panel reported today that existing Mississippi River freshwater diversions have not slowed ...
Price of Shrimp Impacted by Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone”
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/price-of-shrimp-affected-by-gulf-of-mexico-dead-zone/
Region(s) of Study: Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies The low oxygen conditions slow shrimp growth ...
Dispersal of Mississippi and Atchafalaya Sediment on the Texas ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/dispersal-of-mississippi-and-atchafalaya-sediment-on-the-texas-louisiana-shelf-model-estimates-for-the-year-1993/
A three-dimensional coupled hydrodynamic-sediment transport model for the Texas Louisiana continental shelf was developed using the Regional Ocean ...
NCCOS Assists Response to Cyanobacterial Blooms in Lake Pontchartrain ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/nccos-assists-response-to-cyanobactrial-blooms-in-lake-pontchartrain-caused-by-opening-the-bonnet-carre-spillway/
NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science provided a HAB Event Response award of $12,900 to the Louisiana State University (LSU) and the ...
Processes controlling mid-water column oxygen minima over the Texas ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/processes-controlling-mid-water-column-oxygen-minima-over-the-texas-louisiana-shelf/
We investigate distributions of dissolved oxygen over the Texas-Louisiana shelf using spatially highly resolved observations in combination with a ...
Above Average Summer 2024 ‘Dead Zone’ Measured in Gulf of Mexico
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/above-average-summer-2024-dead-zone-measured-in-gulf-of-mexico/
The annual dead zone survey was led by scientists at Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) during a ...
Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’ Largest Ever Measured
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“We expected one of the largest zones ever recorded because the Mississippi River discharge levels and nutrient data from May indicated a high ...