Emily Tripp Senior Writer It is not uncommon for sharks to eat sea birds, but lately, researchers have been finding land birds in the stomachs of tiger sharks living in the Gulf of Mexico. “We’re the first to look this exhaustively at the diet of tiger sharks, as far as I know, and this certainly [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer NOAA’s Fisheries Service, along with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Mexican environmental officials have released a new plan to protect the endangered Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle. The updated Bi-National Recovery Plan was signed on September 22. “We are working together with other U.S. and Mexican agencies on the recovery [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer Scientists are arguing against a widely publicized study which concluded that bacteria consumed the methane released from the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. This argument was sparked by a comment published in the May 27 issue of the journal Science. Samantha Joye, marine scientists, lead author, University of Georgia Athletic [...]
What was possibly the worst maritime oil spill in history began one year ago in a poorly drilled well deep in the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion killed 11 workers and sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, causing a leak that spewed 206 million barrels of oil before it was capped, 87 days later. A [...]
On February 2, NOAA reopened 4,213 square miles of Gulf of Mexico federal waters off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to royal red shrimping. This area was previously closed to this kind of deep water fishing on November 24, 2010 after a commercial shrimper found tar balls in his net. The tar balls [...]
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Texas A & M University report that methane gas concentrations in the Gulf of Mexico have already returned to near normal levels. They called their results “extremely surprising” because it’s only been months since the massive release occurred following the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. The [...]
The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science has launched a new “Oil Spill” web page http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/oil-spill/ designed to share the science being conducted at the Rosenstiel School that is relevant to the issues emerging from the incident on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform. Designed for use by teachers, students and [...]
Scientist in the U.S., Cuba and Mexico are working together on a multinational plan to protect the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystems and marine life.
A group of scientists found the size of this year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be smaller than forecasted, but deeper.
The Gulf of Mexico dead zone is the second largest hypoxic zone worldwide.
A team of scientists is forecasting the largest-on-record “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas this summer.
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