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Paulides' books publicized the fact that the US National Park Service does not keep an independent list of people that go missing in their parks. [7] While there is a database for incident and criminal reports, it is not widely or consistently used and it doesn't interface with other criminal databases. [ 7 ]
This year, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico entered into the top third of largest dead zones in records that go back 38 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. The ...
Scorpion Reef (Spanish: Arrecife Alacranes) is an atoll containing a small group of islets in the Gulf of Mexico, about 125 kilometres (78 mi; 67 NM) off the northern coast of the state of Yucatán, Mexico. [2] Designated a national park, the reef is part of the Campeche Bank archipelago and is the largest reef in the southern Gulf of Mexico.
Rabalais was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021. [16] In 2012, she and several colleagues started the Coastal Waters Consortium, which focused on the effects of the BP oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystems and food webs within. [17] Rabalais has been published in the journals Biogeosciences, BioScience, Nature, and ...
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Scientists prepare to collect near-bottom water aboard the R/V Pelican to verify oxygen measurements used to determine the size of the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone. (NOAA/LUMCON/LSU) A "dead zone ...
Some assert that the dead zone threatens lucrative commercial and recreational fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico. "In 2009, the dockside value of commercial fisheries in the Gulf was $629 million. Nearly three million recreational fishers further contributed about $10 billion to the Gulf economy, taking 22 million fishing trips."
Tropical weather stirred up the Gulf of Mexico, reducing this year’s dead zone off Louisiana’s coast to the third-smallest ever measured, the scientist who has measured it since 1985 said Tuesday.