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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Research Associate Education B.S., 2018, Biology Louisiana State University Contact Office: Room 3254 Energy, Coast and Environment Building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803 enall1@lsu.edu
LSU Boyd Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences Education Ph.D., 1974 University of Georgia, Athens, GA M.S., 1969 Drake University, Des Moines, IA B.S., 1967 Monmouth College, Monmouth , IL Research Interests Biological oceanography, conservation, environmental management, estuarine ecology, fisheries ecology, restoration, sustainable systems, wetlands. Contact [...]
