News tagged with gulf
Future of West water supply threatened by climate change, says new study
Jul 20, 2009 |
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As the West warms, a drier Colorado River system could see as much as a one-in-two chance of fully depleting all of its reservoir storage by mid-century assuming current management practices continue on course, ...
Ocean current experts warn of risks if eastern Gulf is opened to drilling
Jun 17, 2009 |
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While Congress considers opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil-and-gas drilling, experts on ocean currents warn of a potential environmental nightmare that could reach the coast of South Florida.
Katrina and Rita provide glimpse of what could happen to offshore drilling if Gustav hits Gulf
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2008 |
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Shortly after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the U.S., Rice University civil and mechanical engineering professor Satish Nagarajaiah studied damage done to offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. If tropical storm ...
Gulf War veterans display abnormal brain response to specific chemicals
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2009 |
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A new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers is the first to pinpoint damage inside the brains of veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome - a finding that links the illness to chemical exposures ...
High numbers of right whales seen in Gulf of Maine
Biology /
Jan 02, 2009 |
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A large number of North Atlantic right whales have been seen in the Gulf of Maine in recent days, leading right whale researchers at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) to believe they have identified ...
Researchers predict large 2009 Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone'
Jun 18, 2009 |
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University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia and his colleagues say this year's Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" could be one of the largest on record, continuing a decades-long trend that threatens the health of a half-billion-dollar ...
Gulf's 'dead zone' much smaller than predicted (w/ Video)
Jul 25, 2009 |
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NOAA-supported scientists, led by Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), found the size of this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be smaller than forecasted, measuring 3,000 square ...
Seaglider sets new underwater endurance and range records
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Washington Seaglider operated for 9 months and 5 days in the Pacific Ocean, an endurance record more than double what any other autonomous underwater vehicle has accomplished ...
Storm killers: Earth Scan Lab tracks cold water upwellings in Gulf
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Complex interactions between the ocean and overlying atmosphere cause hurricanes to form, and also have a tremendous amount of influence on the path, intensity and duration of a hurricane or tropical weather event. As researchers ...
Gulf War research panel finds 1 in 4 veterans suffers from illness caused by toxic exposure
Nov 17, 2008 |
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At least one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness, a condition caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, including pesticides and a drug administered to protect troops against ...
Blue whales re-establishing former migration patterns: research (w/Video)
May 11, 2009 |
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Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965.
Deep brain mapping to isolate evidence of Gulf War syndrome
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Researchers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas are pioneering the use of spatial statistical modeling to analyze brain scan data from Persian Gulf War veterans, aiming to pinpoint specific areas of the their brains ...
Timing is Everything for Northern Shrimp Populations in the North Atlantic
May 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Even for Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis), which support commercial fisheries worldwide, timing is everything in life. The tiny creatures, eaten in shrimp rolls and shrimp salad, occupy ...
Bays on US Gulf Coast vulnerable to flooding
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2008 |
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The most comprehensive geological review ever undertaken of the upper U.S. Gulf Coast suggests that a combination of rising seas and dammed rivers could flood large swaths of wetlands this century in one or more bays from ...
Trans-Atlantic Glider Passes Spot Where Predecessor Sank
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On July 31, 2009, the submersible robot glider RU27, also known as the Scarlet Knight, passed east of the spot in the Atlantic Ocean where its predecessor, RU17, was lost on Oct. 28, 2008.
