'Genius grant' recipient studying Gulf dead zones traces career path from Coastal Bend By By Mark Collette2 December 2012CORPUS CHRISTI — As a student in Port Aransas, Nancy Rabalais never had money, but she always had the sea. "Fish and oysters, crabs — whatever we needed we could always get something to eat somehow," she said. [...]
DEAD ZONE: Runoff from Midwest farms plagues Gulf By Perry Beeman Gannett, theNewsStar.com3 November 2012 CHAUVIN — For shrimpers, crabbers and oystermen who work these waters, locating their harvest has become an increasingly taxing game of hide-and-seek. Nitrates from the fertilizer and manure that Iowa's farmers apply to their fields, mixed with sewage and runoff [...]
Our Views: Rabalais gets genius grant By Opinion, The Advocate, Baton Rouge3 October 2012We congratulate marine ecologist Nancy Rabalais for receiving a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in recognition of her important work advancing the preservation of Louisiana’s coastal environment. The nonprofit MacArthur Foundation awards grants to a select group of artists, scientists and other [...]
Q and A: Tracking a Worrisome Dead Zone By RACHEL NUWER, Green Blog, NY Times15 October 20012 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationNancy Rabalais, a marine ecologist who has studied the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico and fostered public awareness of the problem and its causes, in Cocodrie, La. For over a [...]
Louisiana "dead zone" scientist wins $500,000 MacArthur "Genius Grant" By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune 5 October 2012Each fall, marine ecologist Nancy Rabalais pours a bottle of oxygen-starved water from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico into an urn at the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge. It’s part of an annual water rite at the church. Most [...]
Scientist honored for work off coast By AMY WOLD, The Advocate3 October 2012 While attending an oceanography conference in Mexico several weeks ago, Nancy Rabalais got a call from a phone number she didn’t recognize. “Do you know what the MacArthur Foundation is?” a voice on the phone asked. Rabalais, a research scientist and the executive [...]
LUMCON director wins Genius Grant' By Nikki Buskey, The Courier2 October 2012 Nancy Rabalais, director of LUMCON. A local scientist has been awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the “Genius Grant.” Nancy Rabalais, director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Cocodrie, or LUMCON, is a marine ecologist best known for her [...]
Fish die by thousands along Galvestons beaches By Chris Paschenko, The Daily News13 August 2012 Photo by Jennifer Reynolds - See More Photos Stan Lewis of Dallas rakes dead fish into a pile away from his family’s tent at Bermuda Beach in Galveston on Sunday. Thousands of dead fish littered the beaches on the West End. [...]
Fish kill linked to red tide By Chris Paschenko, The Daily News14 August 2012 Stan Lewis of Dallas rakes dead fish away from his family’s tent at Bermuda Beach in Galveston on Sunday. Officials said a red tide could be responsible for the fish kill. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds GALVESTON — Low to moderate concentrations of [...]
WATER POLLUTION: Three Ohio River states sign on to largest-ever credit-trading plan By Paul Quinlan, Greenwire, E&E News9 August 2012Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio state officials signed an agreement this morning to launch a pilot program that aims to reduce water pollution in the Ohio River by allowing trading of pollution credits between industrial facilities and [...]