I am annoyingly the first one to return to the surface after any scuba dive. My bottom time exploring the wonders of the aquatic realm…
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Tag: oxygen
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…
View More 2011 Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ could be biggest everDead sardines in California had eaten toxic algae
About 5 days ago, a huge school of sardines found their way into King Harbor in Redondo Beach, CA (near Los Angeles), used up all…
View More Dead sardines in California had eaten toxic algaeScientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the Gulf
BP want’s to deny the presence of a deepwater oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico. The very oil plume both predicted by models published in…
View More Scientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the GulfDead Zones Are Here To Stay
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…
View More Dead Zones Are Here To StayThe Origins of Deep-Sea Fauna
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…
View More The Origins of Deep-Sea FaunaOMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair
It’s a hard knock life for deep-sea animals. It’s really cold in the winter. It’s really cold in the summer. It’s dark and wet…like Boston…
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