Gulf of Mexico

discuss regards the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. This dead zone, which for the most part encompasses the water off the coast of Louisiana, becomes depleted in dissolved oxygen. The dead zone is an outcome of nutrient runoff into the Gulf from urban areas, wastewater treatment plants, and from atmospheric deposition, however, the majority comes from fertilizers used in agriculture around the Mississippi River Basin. The increase in nutrients has been affecting the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem by forming

On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred aboard BP contracted Transocean Ltd Deepwater Horizon oil rig stationed in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven workers were killed instantly. Unfortunately, the BP management did not wake up that morning (or countless mornings before) expecting the event to occur for it took them almost 4 months to clean up the spill. The first month was spent forecasting the rate of the spill and having President Barack Obama tour the site. Only on May 26, 2010 did BP initiate the

recent time, was the “Event Horizon” disaster or as it is better known as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This was one the worst because millions upon millions of barrels of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, which not only damages the surrounding waters, but also killed marine life, destroyed many fishing businesses’ around the Gulf, and in some cases destroyed the tourism around the gulf as well. In order to get a better understanding of why this event was important we need to look

Introduction The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) harbors a rich biota with ecological and high commercial significance (Yanez-Arancibia and Day 2004). In this ecosystem, the microorganisms are the primary consumers and play major role in the biogeochemical cycling of organic matters (Pomeroy 1974). The GoM ecosystem is often perturbed by natural calamities or human activities affecting the microbial community structure (Kryachko et al. 2012) and the associated nutrient cycling at all trophic levels (Pomeroy

environmental systems Ecosystems and how living and nonliving entities interact The carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, and water cycles How plate tectonics and the rock cycle shape the Earth Central Case: The Gulf of Mexico’s “Dead Zone” Gulf of Mexico brings in 600 million kg/year shrimp, fish, and shellfish Gulf “dead zone”= a region of water so depleted of oxygen that kills or drives away marine organisms Hypoxia = low concentrations of dissolved oxygen water Caused by fertilizer, runoff, sewage Earth’s

With The Gulf of Mexico being the ninth largest body of water in the world, it is obvious that there may be a few environmental problems. The estuaries of The Gulf of Mexico are being destroyed and there is no one to point fingers at except ourselves. Estuaries provide humans with many uses and benefits such as a water supply, trading ports, agricultural support, sport and commercial fisheries, and even recreational uses for swimming or jet skiing. People from all over the world come to our city

Captain Styles made the executive decision to dock at the unnamed island someplace in the Gulf of Mexico. From the dark clouds and strong winds they could tell a storm was coming soon. Niall had wandered away from the crew like usual. He ran the warm sand through his fingers and smiled to himself. A soft whimper was heard and Niall perked up his ears. He spun around and saw nothing. Thinking it was just his imagination he continued to look out at the sea. He heard the strange sound again but this

The Gulf of Mexico is in the center of both North and South America. It is in the Atlantic Ocean, and it is almost surrounded by Mexico and the U.S. It is a four hundred and fifty mile stretch between Florida the Yucatán. From east to west the gulf measures about 1,100 miles and from north to south 800 miles. It has an area of more than 500,000 square miles. Most of the 3,000-mile coast is low and marshy, outlined for much of its length by barren sandbars. These are sometimes 100 miles long with

Prospect, about 41 miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana, spewed huge quantities of oil for 87 long days causing major environmental and economic troubles to the Gulf region ("Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill"). It started with a fire and explosion, killing 11 workers, and then unleashed a slow motion disaster that spread across the 600 mile gulf coastline. The massive oil spill disrupted lives and livelihoods, and swallowed up the habitat of many species, leaving their fate to the toxic mix (“Political and

or ocean) in which the level of dissolved oxygen is so depleted (as by the decay of an algal bloom) that most life cannot be sustained”(“Dead Zone”). In the Gulf of Mexico, between the time of Spring and Summer, a dead zone or hypoxic zone occurs off the coast. Although this can occur naturally around the world, on the coast of Gulf of Mexico the large size affected is result of anthropogenic interference of city sewage dump and farmland run off. Another term used to describe an area deficient in