Understanding Long Island Sound’s ‘dead zones’
by Elaina Hancock, University of Connecticut FEBRUARY 5, 2020
For the past 25 years, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection have been diligently collecting water samples each month in Long Island Sound (LIS). Recently, the data have been compiled and analyzed, by UConn associate professors of Marine Science Penny Vlahos and Michael Whitney, and other team members, who have begun the task of digging into the data to better understand the biogeochemistry of the Sound. Part of the analysis, called “Nitrogen Budgets for LIS,” has been published in the journal Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.
Read this article at Phys.org at https://phys.org/news/2020-02-island-dead-zones.html .