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A&M Scientists Begin Another Dead Zone Cruise Monday
A&M scientists are headed out into the Gulf of Mexico Monday on another dead zone research cruise.
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NEW ORLEANS (July 25, 2009)--Almost as soon as scientists who just measured the "dead zone" off Louisiana's coast get their gear off the research boat "Pelican," scientists from Texas A&M will be loading it for a different look at the phenomenon.
Oceanographer Steven DiMarco and chemists, biologists and geographers want to learn details about processes that create a sea bottom area where there is too little oxygen for anything to survive.
The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium found that this year's "hypoxic" area is less than half the size predicted this year and one of the smallest ever.
That group is scheduled to arrive Sunday in Cocodrie, about 70 miles southwest of New Orleans.
DiMarco's group will load its gear onto the Pelican on Monday, and leave as soon as that's done.
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