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         · Government institutions

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General information

What is a dead zone? @ NOAA

Dead zones @ VIMS

A/V, blogs & podcasts

Dealing with Dead Zones: Hypoxia in the Ocean @ NOAA

Government institutions

US EPA Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force

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Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems

     · 2008  ~  Robert J. Diaz and Rutger Rosenberg  ~  Science

     · Recognizes the increase in dead zones within coastal areas

     · Identifies tthe causes of how dead zones are being formed

     · Discusses how climate change is a factor of increased hypoxia and the different degrees that ecosystems

       are being affected by these changes

Nitrogen reductions have decreased hypoxia in the Chesapeake Bay: Evidence from empirical and numerical modeling

     · 2022 ~ Luke T. Frankel et al. ~ Science of the Total Environment 

     · Analyzes how the reduction of nitrogen have affected the Chesapeake Bay from 1985-2019

     · Because of the reductions, the Chesapeake Bay is less threatened by hypoxia despite the increase in climate change