The globalization of cultural eutrophication in the coastal ocean: causes and consequences

TC Malone, A Newton - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Coastal eutrophication caused by anthropogenic nutrient inputs is one of the greatest threats
to the health of coastal estuarine and marine ecosystems worldwide. Globally,∼ 24% of the …

Progress in operational modeling in support of oil spill response

CH Barker, VH Kourafalou, CJ Beegle-Krause… - Journal of marine …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident of a massive blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico,
scientists from government, industry, and academia collaborated to advance oil spill …

Modeling the role of riverine organic matter in hypoxia formation within the coastal transition zone off the Pearl River Estuary

L Yu, J Gan, M Dai, CR Hui, Z Lu… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Globally expanding hypoxia in estuaries and coastal oceans has largely been attributed to
the elevated river nutrient inputs, whereas the role of river‐delivered terrestrial organic …

Climate change projected to exacerbate impacts of coastal eutrophication in the northern Gulf of Mexico

A Laurent, K Fennel, DS Ko… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The continental shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico experiences expansive seasonal
hypoxic conditions and eutrophication‐driven acidification in bottom waters. Rising surface …

Eutrophication‐induced acidification of coastal waters in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Insights into origin and processes from a coupled physical‐biogeochemical …

A Laurent, K Fennel, WJ Cai, WJ Huang… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nutrient inputs from the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River system into the northern Gulf of
Mexico promote high phytoplankton production and lead to high respiration rates …

Sensitivity of hypoxia predictions for the northern Gulf of Mexico to sediment oxygen consumption and model nesting

K Fennel, J Hu, A Laurent… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Every summer, a large area (15,000 km2 on average) over the Texas–Louisiana shelf in the
northern Gulf of Mexico turns hypoxic due to decay of organic matter that is primarily derived …

Estimating sea surface salinity in the northern Gulf of Mexico from satellite ocean color measurements

S Chen, C Hu - Remote sensing of environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Sea surface salinity (SSS) is an important parameter to characterize physical and
biogeochemical processes, yet its remote estimation in coastal waters has been difficult …

Advancing marine biogeochemical and ecosystem reanalyses and forecasts as tools for monitoring and managing ecosystem health

K Fennel, M Gehlen, P Brasseur, CW Brown… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ocean ecosystems are subject to a multitude of stressors, including changes in ocean
physics and biogeochemistry, and direct anthropogenic influences. Implementation of …

Chesapeake Bay nitrogen fluxes derived from a land‐estuarine ocean biogeochemical modeling system: Model description, evaluation, and nitrogen budgets

Y Feng, MAM Friedrichs, J Wilkin, H Tian… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Chesapeake Bay plays an important role in transforming riverine nutrients
before they are exported to the adjacent continental shelf. Although the mean nitrogen …

Exploring effects of hypoxia on fish and fisheries in the northern Gulf of Mexico using a dynamic spatially explicit ecosystem model

K de Mutsert, J Steenbeek, K Lewis, J Buszowski… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
The formation of an extensive hypoxic area off the Louisiana coast has been well publicized.
However, determining the effects of this hypoxic zone on fish and fisheries has proven to be …