Other Hypoxia Studies
Brian A. Grantham, 2004. In: Nature. Volume 429 Number 6993: 749-754.
Summary: Report of first-time hypoxia event and fish-kills in the California current system. Cross-shelf transects taken in 2002 showed abnormally low DO levels corresponding with abnormally strong flow of subarctic water into system.
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D.L. Breitburg, 1990. In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Sciences. Volume 3 Number 6: 593-609.
Summary: Areas of the Chesapeake Bay will experience summer-hypoxia events. Severity and temporal pattern of events along with environmental factors possibly leading to events was investigated during the summers of 1987-1988. Dissolved oxygen, salilnity, and temperature measurments were recorded. Hypoxia on the western shore of the bay was associated with increased salinities and ebb tides and winds from the S-SSE.
Nancy Rabalais, 2001. In: American Geophysical Union.
Summary: Material from a 1988 Workshop held in Baton Rouge, LA
Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force, 2004. A Science Strategy to Support Management Decisions Related to Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and Excess Nutrients in the Mississippi River Basin. In: USGS / US Dept. of Interior.
Summary: A framework for monitoring, modeling and research activities to support management decision making related to fixing the problems facing the Gulf of Mexico due to the heavy nutrient loading from the Mississippi River.
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Teruaki Suzuki, 2001. In: Journal of Environmental Quality. Volume 30 Number 2: 291-302.
Summary: Hypoxia has been developing in all the major bays in Japan on the Pacific coast from Tokyo southward. This examines the conditions surrounding hypoxia in Mikawa Bay, one of the most severe areas, as well as the effects of hypoxia on the environment.
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Nat'l Science & Tech. Council; Committee on Enviro. & Natural Resources, 2003. An Assessment of Coastal Hypoxia and Eutrophication in U.S. Waters.
Summary: Response to the Congressional call for an 'assessment of hypoxia' from the Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Control Act of 1998. It examines ecologocial and economic consequences of hypoxia throughout the United States and the options for reducing mitigating and controlling hypoxia and their costs.
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Hans W. Paerl, 2002. In: Environmental Science & Technology. Volume 36 Number 15: 323A-6A.
Summary: Excessive nitrogen loading in waters can lead to eutrophication and hypoxia. Recent studies show that atmospherically deposited nitrogen may be a significant source of externally supplied nitrogen into the coastal zone.
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B.L. Welsh, 1991. In: Estuaries. Volume 14 Number 3: 265-278.
Summary: Oxygen depletion was found to correspond with thermal-stratification. Total oxygen uptake was highest at the surface layer and diminished with depth.
Tim A. Wool et. al. The Development of a Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model to Support TMDL Determinations and Water Quality Management of a Stratified Shallow Estuary: Mobile Bay, Alabama.
Summary: Due to the geography, complex transport and water quality interactions within Mobile Bay, simple modeling techniques can not be applied. A new model to determine TMDL for Mobile Bay has been developed using the EPA TMDL Modeling Toolbox; Water Resource Database; and Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program.
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R.K. Wallace, 2000. In: Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant.
Summary: Brief description of the causes and effects of the 'jubliee' event that can occurr during the summers in an isolated area on the western shore of Mobile Bay. This event is thought to be caused by low dissolved oxygen levels.
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Kevin D. Blayton, Ted Cooney, 1999. In: USGS Water Resources Division; Jordan Jones & Goulding.
Summary: Data and findings from the January 27, 1999 dye study at North Myrtle Beach; water-current direction and velocity measurements from ADCP water column data; wind direction and rainfall data.
Thomas D. Matthews; Oleg Pashuk, 1984. In: Litoralia. Volume 1 Number 1: 41-58.
Summary: Illustration of atypical oceanographic conditions in the SAB during cold winters. Presence of a continuous coastal countercurrent from Long Bay to Cape Canaveral.
Thomas D. Matthews; Oleg Pashuk, 1986. In: Journal of Coastal Research. Volume 2 Number 3: 311-336.
Summary: Hydrographic data from winter and summer cruises used to illustrate oceanographic conditions in the South Atlantic Bight. Unusually low water temperature observed nearshore. High winter salinities indicated Gulf Stream intrusion, atypical surface circulation patterns observed in relation to Long Bay.
Puget Sound Action Team, 2004. In: Sound Waves. Volume 19 Number 1: 1.
Summary: Brief overview of Hood Canal event and actions being taken to remedy the situation. Much more information is available through the website.
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Manhar Dhanak and Dane Hancock.
Summary: 1:120 scale laboratory model used to study the development of the plumes formed by two culverts for the proposed 25th avenue south outfall in Myrtle Beach.
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T.D. Mathews; O. Pashuk, 1977. In: National Marine Fisheries Service; MARMAP Program Office; SC Wildlife and Marine Resources Dept. Number 19.
Summary: Illustrates some of the major circulation features of continental shelf waters off the southeastern United States. Includes seasonal meterological and hydrographic data with generalizations of their significance.
T.D. Mathews; O. Pashuk, 1982. In: National Marine Fisheries Service; MARMAP Program Office; SC Wildlife and Marine Resources Dept. Number 50.
Summary: Illustrates some of the major circulation features of continental shelf waters off the southeastern United States. Includes seasonal meterological and hydrographic data with generalizations of their significance.
Associated Press.
Summary: Brief news article describing massive fish kills along Atlantic coast near Virginia Beach, VA. Cites upwellings as possible cause.
Elizabeth V. Garlo, Charles B. Milstein, and Andrew E. Jahn, 1979. In: Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science. Volume 8 Number 5: 421-432.
Summary: A major kill of marine animals in the New York Bight from July through September 1976 was caused by hypoxic conditions. Its inshore effects were studied near Little Egg Inlet, New Jersey. There were relativley high macrobenthic mortalities, highest among echinoderms, crustaceans and bivalves with relativley few fish mortalities. Diatom bloom was cited as a key cause.
Robert J. Diaz; Gilbert T. Rowe; Teruaki Suzuki; Donald F. Boesch et al., 2001. In: Journal of Environmental Quality. Volume 30 Number 2: 275-344.
Summary: Seven articles describing hypoxia events; causes and possible solutions around the world.
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RJ Livingston, 1996. In: Sustainable Development in the Southeastern Coastal Zone. Volume 0 Number 20: 285-318.
Summary: Analysis of the relationships of depth, salinity, stratification, dredging and periodic hypoxia in river-estuarine systems along the northeast coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Scott Glenn; Robert Anone; et al., 2004. In: Journal of Geophysical Research. Volume 109: C12S02.
Summary: Investigation of hypothesis that coastal hypoxia off the New Jersey shelf is due to coastal upwelling as opposed to previously speculated riverine inputs. Recurrent upwelling occurrs during summer months with significant events during summers following especially cold winters.
Nancy N. Rabalais; R. Eugene Turner; William J. Wiseman, Jr., 2002. In: Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. Volume 33: 235-263.
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Mechanisms Controlling Hypoxia
Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force. 2001. Action Plan for Reducing, Mitigating, and Controlling Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Washington, DC