Professors find clue to dead zone in lake
(OH) Toledo Blade - For decades if not centuries, a portion of Lake Erie’s central basin has been so depleted of oxygen that it has not supported life. Two Bowling Green State University researchers believe they have uncovered cold-weather diatoms, or microscopic pieces, of algae that contribute to the lake’s infamous dead zone.
The research that Michael McKay and George Bullerjahn have done into Aulacoseira islandica (pronounced All-LE-sa-SY-ruh Eye-LAND-icka) is not likely to solve the dead zone’s mystery. More
There are hundreds of dead zones world wide all caused by eutrophication. It’s great that these researchers have discovered what has been happening lots of places since the 70′s. I know technically the perfectly obvious has to be “proven” for it to be good science but I can’t help but think that time would be better spent fixing the flat tire than studying if the nail sticking out of it was the actual cause of the rapid deflation.
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