Dead Zone (1 Viewer)

[cranston36]

There is an oxygen-starved "dead zone" in Lake Erie. Many international scientists with extensive equipment and research vessels are gathering in Ohio to find out why.
Among them are the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) landlocked Ann Arbor, Michigan Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. They will be the leaders in the 2-year long study.
If the construction keeps up on Michigan roadways it will probably take them that long just to drive down there.
Included will be dozens of scientists and their graduate students from Canada, Great Lakes states, universities and some other federal agencies, because one is just not enough when it comes to spending money.
Some of the researchers have already pegged certain reasons for the dead zone including the zebra mussel – but they haven’t explained that one too well. Low water levels, fertilizer and other chemical runoff may be investigated if they come up empty on the zebra mussel.
Apparently preparing to spend as much money as he can before he gets started, Stephen Brandt, director of the landlocked lab in Ann Arbor stated, "We not only want to find out why this is happening, we want to find out how it might affect the food web and what the consequences might be."
One possible reason they will not be investigating is the impact of High Pressure Injection wells. There are two sets of them, one on each side of Cleveland, where the problem seems to be centered.
The dead-zone is just like the dead zones that have appeared with increasing frequency in the Gulf of Mexico.
The reason that these large bodies of deoxygenated water with higher than usual levels of salt in them are appearing in the Gulf of Mexico is most likely due to water being pushed out of the earth far from injection points.
In Michigan – the waters encased deep within the earth are also largely without oxygen and if they are pushed to the surface or near the surface where they can enter the lake body they will cause as much damage and trouble as the floating dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico.
Don’t expect these landlubbers to check these problems out, however, they will most likely be spending the season tripping over deck ropes and sailing amongst the picturesque islands of Lake Erie and spending their evening writing really long reports.
Result – lots of money spent and nothing solved.

 

[RightinNYC]

There is an oxygen-starved "dead zone" in Lake Erie. Many international scientists with extensive equipment and research vessels are gathering in Ohio to find out why.
Among them are the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) landlocked Ann Arbor, Michigan Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. They will be the leaders in the 2-year long study.
If the construction keeps up on Michigan roadways it will probably take them that long just to drive down there.
Included will be dozens of scientists and their graduate students from Canada, Great Lakes states, universities and some other federal agencies, because one is just not enough when it comes to spending money.
Some of the researchers have already pegged certain reasons for the dead zone including the zebra mussel – but they haven’t explained that one too well. Low water levels, fertilizer and other chemical runoff may be investigated if they come up empty on the zebra mussel.
Apparently preparing to spend as much money as he can before he gets started, Stephen Brandt, director of the landlocked lab in Ann Arbor stated, "We not only want to find out why this is happening, we want to find out how it might affect the food web and what the consequences might be."
One possible reason they will not be investigating is the impact of High Pressure Injection wells. There are two sets of them, one on each side of Cleveland, where the problem seems to be centered.
The dead-zone is just like the dead zones that have appeared with increasing frequency in the Gulf of Mexico.
The reason that these large bodies of deoxygenated water with higher than usual levels of salt in them are appearing in the Gulf of Mexico is most likely due to water being pushed out of the earth far from injection points.
In Michigan – the waters encased deep within the earth are also largely without oxygen and if they are pushed to the surface or near the surface where they can enter the lake body they will cause as much damage and trouble as the floating dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico.
Don’t expect these landlubbers to check these problems out, however, they will most likely be spending the season tripping over deck ropes and sailing amongst the picturesque islands of Lake Erie and spending their evening writing really long reports.
Result – lots of money spent and nothing solved.

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[cranston36]

What sort of links are you looking for?
What are you talking about?

 

[RightinNYC]

What sort of links are you looking for?
What are you talking about?

You have a very long, poorly formatted post which appears to be cut and pasted from an article. Per forum rules, you cannot post a news article without including a source. You should also deliniate between what you took from the article and what is your own independent thought.

 

[tecoyah]

You have a very long, poorly formatted post which appears to be cut and pasted from an article. Per forum rules, you cannot post a news article without including a source. You should also deliniate between what you took from the article and what is your own independent thought.

Allow me....its an interesting topic actually:



Cross-section of Lake Erie in summerThe bottom waters in the Central Basin of Lake Erie become anoxic (without oxygen) in the late summer. Aquatic creatures need oxygen in the water to live. Sometimes, however, conditions exist in which the dissolved oxygen in the water is used up by organisms faster than it can be replaced from the air. If all the oxygen gets used up, the organisms will suffocate. The configuration of the Central Basin of Lake Erie is partly responsible for the problem, but too many nutrients (especially phosphorus) from human activities is also a major factor.

http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/lakeerie/eriedeadzone.html


though this is far more alarming:

Scientific investigations in the Gulf of Mexico have documented a large area of the Louisiana continental shelf with seasonally-depleted oxygen levels (< 2mg/l). Most aquatic species cannot survive at such low oxygen levels. The oxygen depletion, referred to as hypoxia, begins in late spring, reaches a maximum in midsummer, and disappears in the fall. After the Mississippi River flood of 1993, the spatial extent of this zone more than doubled in size, to over 18,000 km2, and has remained about that size each year through midsummer 1997. The hypoxic zone forms in the middle of the most important commercial and recreational fisheries in the coterminous United States and could threaten the economy of this region of the Gulf.

http://www.nos.noaa.gov/products/pubs_hypox.html

 

[cranston36]

There you are - 2 links - noaa.gov and epa.gov.

have fun fishing around there for 100 years.

Some of the material they have online may be out of date or incongruous but I invite you to read it all.

When you are done then we can talk.

I will need you to provide a list of all resources you reviewed before I will reply so as to save myself time and ensure that you are talking about the same thing I am.