Louisiana Students Successful at National Science and Humanities Symposium By Billy Gomila5/18/2099; LSU News http://appl003.lsu.edu/unv002.nsf/9faf000d8eb58d4986256abe00720a51/4bfa1d10e666e5dd862575ba00644b10?OpenDocument BATON ROUGE – Two students represented Louisiana at the 47th annual National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, or JSHS, held from April 29-May 3 at the U.S. Air Force Adacemy in Colorado Springs, Colo.Bonnie J. McLindon and Cooper D. Cain, [...]

Students cruise for credit onboard Pelican By Elizabeth MillerMay 20, 2009; 2theadvocate.com http://www.2theadvocate.com/features/45455902.html ABOARD THE PELICAN IN THE GULF OF MEXICO — While some university lab work entails hours of scooping rat droppings or entering statistics into databases, other research assignments have students taking a cruise. Aboard The Pelican, a 116-foot research vessel, LSU graduate students [...]

Explorer Alexandra Cousteau's around-the-world tour stops in South Louisiana to promote water conservation By Molly ReidMay 5, 2009; The Times-Picayunehttp://blog.nola.com/mollyreid/2009/05/explorer_alexandra_cousteaus_a_1.html  Her grandfather, sea explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau, gave the world an unprecedented look at the wonders of the oceans. Now, Alexandra Cousteau is on an expedition of her own to spread awareness of water [...]

AEC Leaders Call on Obama Administration & Congress to Take Action Against the Gulf Dead ZoneApril 23, 2009; AEC, Houma Daily Courier Leaders from across America’s Energy Coast are calling upon President Barack Obama and members of Congress to take immediate steps to reduce the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico by fully funding [...]

Cousteau's granddaughter talks world water woes By The Daily AdvertiserApril 24, 2009http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904240338 MARRERO - Like Jacques Cousteau, her famous grandfather, Alexandra Cousteau tells stories about the world of water, but her film crew has worked mostly from above the waves on a 100-day journey to document the world's water woes and their interconnections. That isn't [...]

Missouri a Culprit Behind Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone" By Heather ClaybrookApril 23, 2009; Public News Service, MO http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/8692-1 St. Louis, MO - Missouri ranks third among the nine states that are contributing more than 75 percent of the nutrients to the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recent report by [...]

LSU students plunge into studies By Elizabeth MillerApril 18, 2009; thenewsstar.com, Monroe, LA http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090418/NEWS01/904180311   View the Photo Gallery at /wp-content/uploads/2017/01/StudentsonPelicanPhotoGallery.pptx ABOARD THE PELICAN IN THE GULF — While some university student lab jobs entail hours of scooping rat droppings or entering statistics into databases, other research assignments have students jumping off the deep end.   Graduate [...]

Ocean Dead Zones Likely To Expand: Increasing Carbon Dioxide And Decreasing Oxygen Make It Harder For Deep-sea Animals To Breath By Science DailyApril 18, 2009http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090417161506.htm ScienceDaily (Apr. 18, 2009) — New calculations made by marine chemists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) suggest that low-oxygen "dead zones" in the ocean could expand significantly [...]

Biofools By The EconomistApril 8, 2009  http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13437705Farming biofuels produces nitrous oxide. This is bad for climate change MANY people consider the wider use of biofuels a promising way of reducing the amount of surplus carbon dioxide (CO2) being pumped into the air by the world’s mechanised transport. The theory is that plants such as sugar [...]

Friday Cocktail: THE OVERDOSE: Three Parts Dead Zone, One Part Mercury, Sprig of Carbon Capture By Julia WhittyMother Jones; April 17, 2009 http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2009/04/friday-cocktail-overdose-three-parts-dead-zone-one-part-mercury-sprig-carbon-cap Round 1: First a report from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute that low-oxygen dead zones in the ocean could expand significantly over the next century. We already know the number of [...]