Texas A&M Geoscientist Reports on Gulf Dead Zone

Researchers from Texas A&M University have deployed the states first water quality monitoring system off the Texas coast to provide hourly updates on water temperature, salinity, oxygen, waves and other information, and the system has already provided an important finding it has detected low oxygen levels indicating the return of the dead zone to coastal Texas.

Steve DiMarco, a professor in the College of Geosciences who has studied the Gulf of Mexico for 16 years and the dead zone areas of the Gulf since 2002, says the dead zone detected, which is located in Texas waters south of Galveston, and about nine nautical miles from shore, is already below levels considered harmful to marine life.

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• geoscience
• oceanograpy
• Gulf of Mexico
• Dead Zone
• A&M University Science