Blaming excess nitrogen in area waters for causing harmful
algal blooms, fish kills and beach closures, a panel of scientists and experts said Suffolk County should upgrade septic systems, launch buoys to monitor water quality and use imaging to
predict problem spots.
As Christine McEntee, president of the American Geophysical Union, explained here, NASA's Earth programs have been used for things like: confronting the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, monitoring dangerous
algal blooms that threaten coastal communities, assessing air quality and water availability,
predicting floods, responding to earthquakes, and tracking tornadoes and hurricanes.