Sentences with phrase «gulf hypoxic zone»

The confirmed size of the 2013 Gulf hypoxic zone will be released in August, following a monitoring survey led by the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium beginning in late July, and the result will be used to improve future forecasts.

Not exact matches

By 2017, excessive nitrogen from agriculture had created a hypoxic zone in the Gulf extending 22,729 square kilometers (8775.7 square miles)-- an area larger than the state of New Jersey.

NOAA - supported scientists found a large Gulf of Mexico oxygen - free or hypoxic «dead» zone, but not as large as had been predicted.

Two surveys conducted in June and early July, one of which was led by a NOAA - supported Texas A&M University team, suggested a large hypoxic zone was forming in the Gulf, though the LUMCON July measurement will be the official one as required of NOAA by the Task Force.

The hypoxic zone off the coast of Louisiana and Texas forms each summer threatening the ecosystem supporting valuable commercial and recreational Gulf fisheries that in 2011 had a commercial dockside value of $ 818 million and an estimated 23 million recreational fishing trips.

NOAA - supported modelers at the University of Michigan, Louisiana State University, and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium are forecasting that this year's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic «dead» zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles which could place it among the ten largest recorded.

The Gulf of Mexico's hypoxic zone is predicted to be the largest ever recorded due to extreme flooding of the Mississippi River this spring, according to an annual forecast by a team of NOAA - supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University and the University of Michigan.

The hypoxic zone off the coast of Louisiana and Texas forms each summer and threatens valuable commercial and recreational Gulf fisheries.

«While there is some uncertainty regarding the size, position and timing of this year's hypoxic zone in the Gulf, the forecast models are in overall agreement that hypoxia will be larger than we have typically seen in recent years.»

Dysfunctional microbiomes are associated with issues including human chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and asthma; local ecological disruptions such as the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico; and reductions in agricultural productivity.

The Mississippi River / Gulf of Mexico Nutrient Management Task Force supports the goal of reducing the size of the hypoxic zone to less than 5,000 square kilometers, or 1,900 square miles, which will require substantial reductions in nitrogen and phosphorus reaching the Gulf.

No, it has nothing directly to do with the BP oil spill, but it won't help things... Scientists supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have just announced that the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone — that's the Gulf Dead Zone to you and me, where there's so little oxygen that it doesn't really support life — is likely to be of above average size this summer, though it won't set a new record (phzone — that's the Gulf Dead Zone to you and me, where there's so little oxygen that it doesn't really support life — is likely to be of above average size this summer, though it won't set a new record (phZone to you and me, where there's so little oxygen that it doesn't really support life — is likely to be of above average size this summer, though it won't set a new record (phew).

The hypoxic zone forms in the middle of the most important commercial and recreational fisheries in the coterminous United States and could threaten the economy of this region of the Gulf.

The largest hypoxic zone currently affecting the United States, and the second largest hypoxic zone worldwide, is the northern Gulf of Mexico adjacent to the Mississippi River.

The economics of dead zones: causes, impacts, policy challenges, and a model of the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone