The science of hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: a review

TS Bianchi, SF DiMarco, JH Cowan Jr… - Science of the Total …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Mississippi River is one of the world's 10 largest rivers, with average freshwater
discharge into the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) of 380km3year− 1. In the northern GOM …

System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion

GC Pitcher, A Aguirre-Velarde, D Breitburg… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The epoch of the Anthropocene, a period during which human activity has been the
dominant influence on climate and the environment, has witnessed a decline in oxygen …

Spatial and temporal trends in Lake Erie hypoxia, 1987–2007

Y Zhou, DR Obenour, D Scavia… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
Hypoxic conditions, defined as dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations below 2 mg/L, are a
regular summertime occurrence in Lake Erie, but the spatial extent has been poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in phytoplankton phenology in the Mediterranean Sea based on ocean-colour remote sensing

PM Salgado-Hernanz, MF Racault… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Seventeen years (1998–2014) of satellite-derived chlorophyll concentration (Chl)
are used to analyse the seasonal and non-seasonal patterns of Chl variability and the long …

A coupled physical-biological model of the Northern Gulf of Mexico shelf: model description, validation and analysis of phytoplankton variability

K Fennel, R Hetland, Y Feng, S DiMarco - Biogeosciences, 2011 - bg.copernicus.org
The Texas-Louisiana shelf in the Northern Gulf of Mexico receives large inputs of nutrients
and freshwater from the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River system. The nutrients stimulate high …

Ensemble modeling informs hypoxia management in the northern Gulf of Mexico

D Scavia, I Bertani, DR Obenour… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
A large region of low-dissolved-oxygen bottom waters (hypoxia) forms nearly every summer
in the northern Gulf of Mexico because of nutrient inputs from the Mississippi River Basin …

Nutrient enrichment and fisheries exploitation: interactive effects on estuarine living resources and their management

DL Breitburg, JK Craig, RS Fulford, KA Rose… - Hydrobiologia, 2009 - Springer
Both fisheries exploitation and increased nutrient loadings strongly affect fish and shellfish
abundance and production in estuaries. These stressors do not act independently; instead …

Retrospective analysis of midsummer hypoxic area and volume in the northern Gulf of Mexico, 1985–2011

DR Obenour, D Scavia, NN Rabalais… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
Robust estimates of hypoxic extent (both area and volume) are important for assessing the
impacts of low dissolved oxygen on aquatic ecosystems at large spatial scales. Such …

Cold-front-induced flushing of the Louisiana Bays

Z Feng, C Li - Journal of Marine Systems, 2010 - Elsevier
Water level variations were used to calculate cold-front-induced water exchange fluxes for
three Louisiana bays. Twenty-nine cold fronts were identified from weather maps between …

Improving the transferability of suspended solid estimation in wetland and deltaic waters with an empirical hyperspectral approach

D Jensen, M Simard, K Cavanaugh, Y Sheng… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The deposition of suspended sediment is an important process that helps wetlands accrete
surface material and maintain elevation in the face of sea level rise. Optical remote sensing …