GOMAEEN News Archive
These stories reflect Gulf news from June 2009 forward.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 | Cornyn opposes approval of Gulf oil spill funding bills Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) is the only remaining opponent among Gulf Coast senators of a proposed bill that would funnel a portion of fines from the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster and oil spill toward ecological restoration along the coast. more info |
| Recreational fishermen say catch limits damaging fishing industry in the Southeast MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. — Travis Palladeno, a veteran charter fishing captain on Florida’s Gulf Coast, flips through his appointment book and bemoans the blank pages. Restrictions on some of the most popular — and tasty — sport fish are so strict right now, fewer people want to go out. more info |
| USDA Announces $50 Million for Gulf River Basins The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday pledged $50 million to a program designed to restore seven river basins from Florida to Texas in an attempt to show a blueprint for rebuilding the Gulf Coast's fragile ecosystem is more than just another federal report. more info |
| Buffett family donates boat to lab OCEAN SPRINGS -- Singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffett visited the USM Gulf Coast Research Lab on Monday with sisters, Lucy Buffett and Laurie Buffett McGuane, for the christening of the GCRL’s newest boat. more info |
| Gulf Coast Task Force Releases Final Ecosystem Restoration Strategy on December 5, 2011 The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force today released its final strategy for long term ecosystem restoration for the Gulf Coast, following extensive feedback from citizens throughout the region. more info |
| Texas Red Tide Update Matagorda and San Antonio Bays: Patches of red tide and old dead fish continue to be reported from these bays. Rockport/Port Aransas: Cell concentrations coming through the pass at Port Aransas remain in the low to moderate range. more info |
| Gulf of Mexico fish-tracking system goes full steam ahead Responding to deepening concerns about seafood mislabeling and the safety of fish caught in the Gulf of Mexico, a trade association of Gulf fishermen is tagging and credentialing each of the fish its members pull from the water. more info |
| Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Affects Development of Gulf Killifish Soon after the Deepwater Horizon rig began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Andrew Whitehead and his colleagues at Louisiana State University set out to determine how that oil would affect gene expression in fish along the Gulf Coast. more info |
| Seventh graders set sail aboard a floating classroom Ship ahoy! Seventh graders from A.C. Blunt Middle School sailed aboard the Karma, a converted shrimp boat, last week to get a first hand look at sea life via Texas A&M University’s Floating Classroom project. more info |
| Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas r the first time in 25 years, a new Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas is now available http://gulfatlas.noaa.gov. Based on the idea of a traditional atlas but offered via the Internet by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the new Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas provides answers to questions related to the physical environment, marine resources, and economic activity in the Gulf of Mexico. more info |
| Gulf of Mexico Takes Center Stage at the State of the Gulf SUMMIT2011 The 2nd State of the Gulf of Mexico Summit brings together experts and leaders with an interest in the Gulf of Mexico. A unique feature of the SGM SUMMIT2011 is an emphasis on developing an effective “report card” that can be used by resource managers and decision makers in science and business to understand the impacts of our activity. Unprecedented cooperation has preceeded this important event. more info |
| How To Put A Value On Oil Damaged Life In The Gulf A law passed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill requires the government to assess the biological damage from big spills so fines can be fixed and damage paid for. The National Academy of Sciences has a report describing the methods and metrics of determining the "ecosystem services" that have been lost due to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. more info |
| Climate refugees By 2050 all will be affected to varying degrees by rising sea levels. Some land such as that bordering the northern Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea are likely to be permanently lost due to erosion and more extensive flooding whenever extreme climate events occur. more info |
| Farm to Fork Across America: What's the Dirt Who is The Land Institute's role model? The prairie. An agriculture mimicking the prairie's biodiversity would enjoy its resilience to weather vagaries, pests, and disease. Not tilling the soil allows it delicious bioactivity. With this system, many conventional agricultural catastrophes can be resolved. more info |
| 'The Big Fix' review: BP's disaster in the Gulf of Mexico The scathing documentary "The Big Fix" investigates questions of corporate negligence and political corruption surrounding last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its lingering aftereffects on the Gulf Coast. more info |
| MSU institute, NOAA continuing successful partnership A Mississippi State-led research institute and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will continue their collaborative partnership for an additional five years. more info |
| Mexico gov't reopens all Gulf of Mexico ports Mexico's government reopened all its Gulf of Mexico ports, including the three major oil-exporting ports, on Sunday. more info |
| Study Answers How Ancient Waterway Circulated A Boise State University study has shed new light on how a shallow seaway that once extended across the central part of North America circulated during one of earth’s warmest periods, about 82 to 87 million years ago. The findings could help explain why animals differ in the North and South regions. more info |
| Manatees moving into warmer water of Kings Bay Cruising the waters of Kings Bay, we caught a ride with Capt. Paul Cross from the dive shop at Plantation on Crystal River. more info |
| Artificial reefs' effect on fish populations comes under question Artificial reefs — long believed to boost fish populations — might be doing the opposite by concentrating fish and fishermen in the same places. more info |
| Can We Avoid Locking Ourselves Into Runaway Climate Change? What consequences do they mean? To start with, they warn that the window to limiting global temperature rise to 2°C -- the threshold at which catastrophic climate change may become inevitable -- is rapidly closing. more info |
| Tiger shrimp spotted in Mississippi Sound The Asian tiger shrimp has invaded the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi Sound. more info |
| Tiger shrimp spotted in Mississippi Sound The Asian tiger shrimp has invaded the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi Sound. more info |
| Students with disabilities touch, draw marine life Many people know the pleasures of being on the bay in the fall, when the birds are calling loudly to each other as they migrate south and the wind out of the north causes the waves to slap noisily against the beach. Now imagine that same experience without sound or vision, with only your hands and your wader-clad feet and some dedicated teachers guiding you. more info |
| Bacteria linked to deaths of bottlenose dolphins Scientists investigating the stranding of hundreds of dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico since early last year reported Thursday that they have identified Brucella bacteria in five of 21 tested and are trying to determine whether the deaths may be linked to last year's BP oil spill. more info |
| Gulf restoration briefing to be held Nov. 16 A briefing to discuss efforts to restore ecological and economic vitality to the Gulf of Mexico will be held on Wed., Nov. 16, and will feature a host of panelists and lawmakers from all the states affected by last year’s massive BP oil spill. more info |
| Evidence shows Gulf oil spill caused widespread ecological damage But as a few individual parts of the picture come into focus, the question remains of how much overall harm is directly related to the BP oil. more info |
| Rice lends support to Mississippi River Trail Rice is the latest Central Minnesota city to lend its support to the Mississippi River Trail, a paved recreational trail that runs about 3,000 miles from the headwaters at Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico. more info |
| Young explorer goes on trip of a lifetime Balmoral junior secondary's Aya Anholt, 15, was one of eight students chosen from around the world to accompany extreme explorer Mike Horn on an expedition on the Gulf of Mexico aboard his boat, Pangaea, Nov. 14-Dec. 5 more info |
| Attack of the jellyfish Scientists debate the ‘rise of slime’ theory more info |
