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2011 Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ could be biggest ever

You know that oxygen-less zone that chokes life and forms every year in the Gulf of Mexico at the base of the Mississippi? Currently its…

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Dead Zones Are Here To Stay

Dr. M October 26, 2009 anoxic dead zone hypoxia NSF Oregon oxygen

In 2008, I wrote that about a paper by Chan et al. in Science examining the anoxic zone emerging off the Oregon coast. It was…

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The Origins of Deep-Sea Fauna

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. –Aristotle To understand the biogeography of the modern deep sea, we must examine the…

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2011 Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ could be biggest ever

Dead Zones Are Here To Stay

The Origins of Deep-Sea Fauna