Also known as hypoxia, it's created by nutrient ... water bodies across the country and in the Gulf of Mexico it has resulted in a dead zone, where low to no oxygen does not support fish and ...

Eugene Turner and Nancy Rabalais wrote in “2017 Forecast: Summer Hypoxic Zone Size, Northern Gulf of Mexico.” Even during a usual year, the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is the largest in ...

1733-1750 (18 pages) The Louisiana Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico experiences recurrent bottom water hypoxia ... Nitrite accumulation in hypoxic zones remains understudied and may have important effects ...

From a tiny marine research center on the Louisiana coast, Nancy Rabalais has led the charge to map, understand, and reduce dangerous “dead zones” in the Gulf of Mexico. A series of rodent experiments ...

Six of the nine stations revealed such oxygen-deprived, hypoxic water ... One of the major dead zones is in the Gulf of Mexico. It is 8,000 square miles, nearly the size of New Jersey, according ...

Rabalais has zigged and zagged her way across land and ocean to become the face of coastal ecosystem research and outreach in the Gulf of Mexico. Her work over the last 3 decades has brought national ...