Baton Rouge, Louisiana is situated on the Mississippi River, about 230 miles from the Gulf of America. A team of professors and postdoctoral scholars at LSU has closed that distance by discovering a way to track hypoxia in the Gulf quicker and more efficiently.
Hypoxia is when oxygen levels are low or none, creating a “dead zone” that negatively affects marine life. The hypoxic zone in the Gulf of America is 4,000 square miles and is caused by excess nutrients.
The estimated direct economic impact from hypoxia in the Gulf of America is $80 million per year…