NOAA Awards Grant to Investigate Impacts of Land Use and Climate Change on Hypoxia in Green Bay, Lake Michigan

August 10, 2010 at 10:14 am | Posted in Remote Sensing Law Current Events | Leave a comment

by Sara M. Langston with the blog faculty

Source: NOAA

Scientists researching the causes and effects of hypoxia in Green Bay, part of Lake Michigan, Wisc., have been awarded $348,037 for the first year of an anticipated four-year $1,367,300 project through NOAA’s Coastal Hypoxia Research Program. Hypoxia within Green Bay has been a problem for decades, and recent evidence suggests that it may be worsening, with the potential for “dead zones” and fish kills to become both more frequent and more extensive with a changing climate…more