Average Size "Dead Zone" in Anything but an Average YearPRESS RELEASE, JULY 26, 2004 The coast-wide extent of the Louisiana "dead zone" mapped this week is slightly larger than average at 15,040 km2 (5,800 square miles). The long-term average since mapping began in 1985 is 13,000 km2 (5,000 square miles). The river flow and the [...]

Anoxic Water To Shore in Belle PassJuly 2004To: mschexnayder@agcenter.lsu.edu, aarousse@dhh.la.gov, Dguilbea@dhh.la.gov, Jantoon@dhh.la.gov, wmorrison@lumcon.edu, Banks_PD@wlf.state.la.us, Bourgeois_MJ@wlf.state.la.us, awold@theadvocate.com, Schleifstein_M, cburdeau@ap.org, nrle@ap.org, Pausina_RB@wlf.state.la.us, hblanchet@wlf.state.la.us, Karen.Gautreaux@la.gov,dvincen@dhh.la.gov, DMJohnson@msoneworleans.uscg.mil, Foote_K@wlf.state.la.us, mikelif@lsu.edu, Roussel_JE@wlf.state.la.us, jhorst@agcenter.lsu.edu,bchampion@dhh.la.gov, Hanifen_J@wlf.state.la.us, Dunne_Mike, St.Pe_Kerry, Tim.Orsi@ncddc.noaa.gov, frnaquin@dhh.la.gov, Jantoon@dhh.la.gov, rrobicha@dhh.la.gov, <wmorrison@lumcon.edu, Banks_PD@wlf.state.la.us, quay.dortch@noaa.gov, Chris.Piehler@la.gov, bchampion@dhh.la.gov, Hardcastle_BT@wlf.state.la.us From: Nancy Rabalais <nrabalais@lumcon.edu>Subject: Re: notice from surfers @ FourchonlAll, I did not have an [...]

'Dead zones' threaten fisheriesMay 27, 2004, Christian Science Monitor       http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0527/p13s01-sten.html            By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor       In midsummer, the northern Gulf of Mexico, where the Mississippi River       empties into it, may shimmer like any other swath of sea. But a few score       feet below, bottom-dwelling fish and [...]

Deep Trouble: Gulf graveyard Sunday, October 5, 2003; Naples Daily Newshttp://web.naplesnews.com/03/10/naples/d970192a.htm

TROPICAL STORMS PUT THE OXYGEN BACK INTO THE "DEAD ZONE" By Danielle RichardiPRESS RELEASE, JULY 29, 2003 Two tropical storms in as many weeks have mixed up the coastal waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico and disrupted the usual widespread extent of summertime waters severely depleted in oxygen, reports Dr. Nancy Rabalais who just [...]

Summer 2002 HypoxiaPRESS RELEASE, JULY 26, 2002 Once again the estimated size of the Dead Zone off Louisiana and Texas has grown past previous years at 22,000 sq. km (= 8,500 sq. mi.), reports Dr. Nancy Rabalais who just completed this summer's mapping. The area it stretches across the Gulf of Mexico sea floor is [...]

Mississippi to Mexico1/23/02, The Osgood File (CBS Radio Network); The American Communications Foundation Nancy Rabalais is watching the Gulf of Mexico suffocate. She's the world's foremost expert on the dying section of the Gulf near the Mississippi. According to Rabalais, if you were scuba diving in the Gulf fifty years ago, you would have seen [...]

Local marine biologist feels bonded to Gulf September 10, 2001; The Courierby John DeSantis, Senior Staff Writer COCODRIE - Initially, Nancy Rabalais had plans for a short stay.   A research project on the oil and gas industry’s effects on Gulf of Mexico waters brought Rabalais, then a University of Texas doctoral candidate, to this [...]

LUMCON researcher will lead national ocean policy committeeSeptember 7, 2001; The Courier By JOHN DeSANTIS Senior Staff Writer A local professor whose work includes extensive charting of the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" will take on a new responsibility as chair of a national committee that helps formulate national policy on oceans and related issues. [...]

TROPICAL STORM BARRY STIRS IT UP, BUT DEAD ZONE RETURNS August 16, 2001; Press Release Earlier reports this summer documented the dead zone off Louisiana and Texas to be the largest ever, stretching from the Mississippi River delta onto the upper Texas coast.  The record-breaking size was just over 8,000 sq. mi., approaching the size [...]