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 | Decision to list loggerheads as endangered delayed until March A decision on whether to move forward with listing loggerhead sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico as an endangered species has been postponed until March. more info |
| FWC Wraps Up Two-Day Meeting In Apalachicola The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) waded through numerous high-profile issues during its meeting in Apalachicola Wednesday and Thursday. more info |
| Missouri River dams affect Louisiana wetlands When bad things happen along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, experts sometimes blame poor management of the Missouri River, which contributes as much as 47 percent of the Mississippi's water during flood periods. more info |
| In South Padre, a beach full o’ jellyfish Update: Monday morning, jellyfish were still washing up, but the surf had calmed and there weren’t nearly as many of them. A 15-foot tree had washed up the night before, too, minus its limbs. Things are calmer now. more info |
| New levees will be tested by encroaching Gulf As land in lower Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes washes into the Gulf of Mexico, the levee systems that are planned to protect bayou communities will have to fight their own war against erosion. more info |
| The vaquita, an endangered species According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the rate of species extinction is 100-1,000 times higher than natural due to human activities. Read more: http://www.economicvoice.com/the-vaquita-an-endangered-species/5007032#ixzz0gJItBY90 more info |
| ‘Serpent’ footage captured by LSU LSU’s Mark Benfield has spent much time the last few years in the Gulf of Mexico recording rare and often unprecedented footage of deep-sea biology such as sea-serpentlike fish to giant jellyfish. more info |
| Statement From Dr. Jane Lubchenco on the Death of Sam D. Hamilton Sam was, above all, a true champion of wildlife conservation. Those of us who worked with Sam on restoration efforts in the Florida Everglades and the Gulf of Mexico greatly appreciated his passion, integrity, knowledge and devotion to conservation issues and to people. His unique ability to work across agencies and with diverse stakeholders to craft meaningful solutions to challenging problems was legendary. It will surely be a part of his legacy and a model for all of us. more info |
| Dauphin Island Sea Lab announces summer programs The Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) is offering an extensive array of summer marine science programs. Middle and high school students, college and graduate students and K-12 teachers are encouraged to enroll in one of the programs they say offers excellence in education with an ideal location for studying and interacting with marine life. more info |
| Studying storm surge risks Even without rising sea levels, a quarter of the population could be in the flooded areas if a Category 3 hurricane hit during high tide. more info |
| Cold snap killing Florida's coral reefs The unusually chilly weather so far this year has seen sea temperatures plummet in southern Florida -- a fatal development for the coral, which dies when exposed for an extended time to temperatures below 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit). more info |
| Finding red tide answers After years of study, scientists may finally be nearing breakthroughs on remedies for noxious red tides, with the potential to save manatees, detoxify shellfish beds and protect the tourism industry. more info |
| Treaty signed to protect endangered sharks More than 100 nations signed a U.N.-supported wildlife treaty Tuesday designed to protect shark species threatened with extinction. Environmental studies show shark populations collapsed in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea by 90 percent and by 75 percent in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean during a 15-year span. more info |
| 1,000 strong at ‘Hands Across the Sand’ on St. Pete Beach Our experience with the three ‘Hands Across the Sand’ locations on St. Pete Beach, from the public beach to the Sirata Beach Resort and past the Tradewinds Resort, was thrilling. Hundreds of participants at both the Sirata and Tradewinds were able to link. We reached out to the public beach to the south, and could have stretched down to the public beach site with a few bullhorns to stretch the crowd apart more info |
| The Carbon Cycle Before Humans Geoengineering -- deliberate manipulation of the Earth's climate to slow or reverse global warming -- has gained a foothold in the climate change discussion. But before effective action can be taken, the Earth's natural biogeochemical cycles must be better understood. more info |
| Bayou Lafourche, ‘the longest Main Street in the world’ It’s an apt nickname when you consider the 65 miles of communities stretching along the bayou from Donaldsonville to Leeville. Most of Lafourche and Assumption parishes’ communities settled primarily along the bayou for its transportation possibilities, fishing, farming and fresh water. more info |
| Overfishing Threatens Key Species in Mexico MEXICO CITY – The species of fish and shellfish most consumed in Mexico “are at risk” due to overfishing, according to Greenpeace, which presented Tuesday a list of the ones that are most endangered. Red snapper, shrimp, sardines, sharks, rays, tuna and groupers from the Gulf of Mexico, salmon from the Atlantic and grey mullet are all on the Red List prepared by the environmental organization. more info |
| Sea Levels Erratic During Latest Ice Age Studies at a handful of sites worldwide have noted that sea level reached an exceedingly brief and similarly enigmatic high point around 81,000 years ago, says Dorale. Those results have been controversial and, for the most part, have been “politely ignored because they don’t fit the presumed pattern” of how ice ages develop and progress, he says. more info |
| Snorkelers could get place to kick their fins A proposal to install three near-shore snorkeling reefs is in the works, according to W.A. "Buck" Lee, executive director of the Santa Rosa Island Authority, and Robert Turpin, manager of Escambia's Marine Resources Division. more info |
| Maimed sharks show up on national seashore Six dead, mutilated sharks found with their fins cut off on the Padre Island National Seashore likely were caught illegally by offshore commercial fishermen, maimed and dumped overboard to die, a local conservationist said. more info |
| 'Hands Across The Sand' Event Open To Everyone This Saturday On Saturday, Feb. 13th the Citizens of Florida will have an opportunity to show their opposition to oil drilling as close as 3 to 10 miles off our coast. This movement will be made of people of all walks of life and will cross political affiliations. This movement is not about politics; it is about protection of our shoreline, our tourism, our valuable properties and our way of life. Let us share our knowledge, energies and passion for protecting our waterways and beaches from the devastating effects of oil drilling. more info |
| Mobile classroom features sea creatures The Dauphin Island Sea Lab visited Russellville this week to teach the landlocked students about marine biology. more info |
| Excessive Rain Brings Attention to Mobile’s Drainage Problems When District 2 City Councilman William Carroll drove to St. Dominic’s School on Burma Road about a week ago, he noticed one particular leg of the Spencer Branch drainage ditch was overwhelmingly deteriorated. more info |
| 5 Questions on Engagement Nutrients: Ray will work closely with the NOAA Gulf of Mexico Regional Collaboration Team. She also will work with the Gulf of Mexico Alliance (GOMA) and Master Gardeners to implement a social marketing plan about residential fertilizer application. Along with the GOMA Nutrients Team, she will help develop an exchange program involving NOAA constituents in the Corn Belt states. more info |
| Ocean Pollutants May Be Cause of Increasing Cancers of Ocean Mammals It is thought that toxins absorb into algae blooms, which then move through the food chain through phytoplankton and on to a copepod, which may eat an extremely high population of polluted phytoplankton. Algae blooms themselves are, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “vitally important to marine and fresh-water ecosystems and most species of algae are not harmful.” However, when algal blooms become harmful algal blooms (HABs) they can “negatively impact organisms in a variety of ways that can range from cell and tissue damage to organism death,” according to a study from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. more info |
| Vancleave students represent spirit of Ocean Sciences Bowl "We're looking at (the participants) to be our future ocean scientists," said regional coordinator Sam Clardy, a graduate student at the Gulf Coast Research Lab who coordinates the undergraduate field courses held each summer. more info |
| Obama knows wetlands threat The announcement by the White House that funds to restore America's WETLAND in coastal Louisiana are included in the president's proposed 2011 budget is historically significant. more info |
| 20,000 striped bass released along coast About 20,000 striped bass have been released along the coast as part of program to study and restore the fish to the coastal waters.The fish are native to the Gulf of Mexico and inland rivers, said Dave Rose, interim hatchery manager at the Lyman Fish Hatchery. more info |
| Watershed group hears of new federal initiative The Mississippi River Basin Healthy Waters Initiative involves 41 watersheds in 12 states to help landowners start projects to avoid, control, and trap nutrient runoff, improve wildlife habitat while maintaining farm productivity. more info |
| Environmental concerns slow Tarpon Springs’ water project Concerns about the environment have stalled Tarpon Springs’ $45 million water project, the St. Petersburg Times reported. more info |
