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New Seafloor Maps Reveal Habitat Sculpted by Ancient Glaciers

By NOAA Fisheries on Sep 26, 2019   Featured, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center  

New Seafloor Maps Reveal Habitat Sculpted by Ancient Glaciers

New bathymetric map of the western Gulf of Alaska. New seafloor maps show for the first time the course of ancient ice masses. They show how they shaped essential habitat for the western Gulf of Alaska’s abundant fish, seabirds, and marine mammals. Scientists wove together historical and modern data—from century-old hand-drawn charts to modern multibeam surveys. They created […]

EPA & Trident Settle Sand Point, Wrangell Fish Waste Violations

By Bill Dunbar | EPA on Mar 2, 2018   Featured, Southwest Alaska, State  

EPA & Trident Settle Sand Point, Wrangell Fish Waste Violations

Seattle — Trident Seafoods Corporation, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Environmental Protection Agency have reached an agreement to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act for discharges of fish waste at two seafood processing facilities in Sand Point and Wrangell, Alaska.  Under the agreement, Trident will remove nearly three-and-a-half acres of waste from […]

Underwater Volcano’s Fiery Eruption Captured in Detail by Seafloor Observatory

By National Science Foundation on Dec 24, 2016   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

Underwater Volcano’s Fiery Eruption Captured in Detail by Seafloor Observatory

A sensor array off the Pacific Northwest coast has captured the cracking, bulging and shaking from the eruption of Axial Seamount, a nearly mile-high undersea volcano, in more detail than ever before. A series of papers published this week in the journals Science and Geophysical Research Letters — and announced today during a press conference […]

‘Dirty Blizzard’ Sent 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Pollution to Seafloor

By Kevin Krajick/Kyu Lee | The Earth Institute-Columbia University on Jun 1, 2016   At Sea, Featured, National  

‘Dirty Blizzard’ Sent 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Pollution to Seafloor

In a new study, they also detailed how remnants of the oil, black carbon from burning oil slicks and contaminants from drilling mud combined with microscopic algae and other marine debris to descend in a “dirty blizzard” to the seafloor. The work, published May 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirms […]

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