Adam Songy
Coastal Scientist Education B.S., 2016, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New Orleans Contact Email: asongy@coastal-sciences.com Website: www.coastal-sciences.com
Dead zone off the Alabama coast larger than Rhode Island this year
Margaret Kates | AL.com 21 August 2024 Patric Garmeson, a charter fishing captain, remembers “hundreds if not thousands” of dead bull redfish washed up in Bon Secour Bay in the spring of 2022. “When you set up a fishing trip, and then you realize that you’re in a dead zone, it can affect morale,” [...]
A ‘dead zone’ about the size of New Jersey lurks in the Gulf of Mexico
Doyle Rice | USA TODAY 1 August 2024 For decades, an oxygen-depleted "dead zone" that is harmful to sea life has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico in a region off Louisiana and Texas. This year, it's larger than average, federal scientists announced in a report out Thursday. The 2024 zone is about 6,705 [...]
Gulf ‘dead zone’ is larger than average this year, the size of New Jersey
Delaney Dryfoos | WWNO 2 August 2024 This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles, as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment [...]
2024 ‘Dead Zone’ in Gulf of Mexico almost 40 times the size of New Orleans
Mark Schleifstein | NOLA.com 1 August 2024 The annual “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico along Louisiana’s coast – an area where low to no oxygen in the deepest water can kill fish and other marine life – covered 6,705 square miles this summer, the 12th largest measured during 38 years of annual cruises, federal [...]
‘Dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico predicted to be bigger than average this summer
Eva Tesfaye | WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio 13 June 2024 The “dead zone” forms in the Gulf of Mexico every summer. It’s caused by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, largely from farm fertilizer and municipal runoff, which are carried down the Mississippi River and into the gulf. Algae feeds on those [...]
Will the dead zone off Louisiana’s coast drastically shrink this year? There’s good news and bad news.
MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN | NOLA.com 13 June 2024 New data has emerged showing that the low-oxygen “dead zone” that forms along Louisiana's coast each summer could shrink dramatically this year -- but the reason may have to do with global warming and there are conflicting findings on the question. A forecast released this week by LSU scientists [...]
NOAA forecasts above-average summer ‘dead zone’ in Gulf of Mexico
Kimberly Rodgers | NOAA 13 June 2024 Low oxygen conditions expected to impact 5,827 square-mile area NOAA is forecasting an above-average summer “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico covering approximately 5,827 square miles — an area roughly the size of Connecticut. The dead zone, or hypoxic area, is an area of low oxygen that [...]
Gulf of Mexico dead zone researcher Nancy Rabalais leaves legacy for new generation
Renowned marine biologist Nancy Rabalais stands at the stern of the research vessel the Acadiana in Cocodrie, La., Wednesday, March 15. (Lauren Whiddon/WUFT News) Gulf of Mexico dead zone researcher Nancy Rabalais leaves legacy for new generation Scientists expect to release forecast for the size of this year’s oxygen-depleted zone this week [...]
NOAA and partners announce below-average ‘dead zone’ measured in Gulf of Mexico
Tyler Wittkofsky | NOAA 2 August 2023 Today, NOAA-supported scientists announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”— an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is approximately 3,058 square miles. That’s almost two million acres of habitat potentially unavailable to fish and bottom species — [...]