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Blackwater: SeaWiFS True Color
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Scientists are baffled by a mysterious 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico off southern Florida, an area normally rife with fish but described by fishermen now as fouled by murky waters and barren of marine life.
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Researchers speculate the black water, as local fishermen have dubbed it, may be a result
of an algae bloom, not unlike red tide outbreaks that afflict the Suncoast region.
Duration: 10.0 seconds
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SeaWiFS Image of Blackwater, True color date Jan. 9, 2002
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SeaWiFS Image of Blackwater, True color date Jan. 16, 2002
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SeaWiFS Image of Blackwater, True color date Feb. 4, 2002
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SeaWiFS Image of Blackwater, True color date March 18, 2002
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Animation Number: | 2419 |
Animator: | Stuart A. Snodgrass (SVS) (Lead) |
Completed: | 2002-03-21 |
Scientist: | Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC) |
Instrument: | SeaStar/SeaWiFS |
Data Collected: | 2002/01/09, 2002/01/16, 2002/02/04, 2002/03/18 |
Series: | Blackwater |
Video: | SVS2002-0001 * |
Keywords:
DLESE
>> Biological oceanography
SVS
>> Blackwater
DLESE
>> Chemical oceanography
DLESE
>> Hydrology
SVS
>> Miami
GCMD
>> Location
>> Florida
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Please give credit for this item to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (http://www.geoeye.com). |
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