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News Release 09-192
NSF Releases Online Multimedia Package on Marine "Dead Zones"
Reader-friendly multimedia package covers the impacts, surprising causes and pioneering methods for studying Oregon's "dead zones"
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Pile of beached crabs that suffocated in a dead zone. Dead zones may produce miles of such piles.
Credit: Elizabeth Gates, courtesy of PISCO
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Jack Barth of Oregon State University discusses dead zones of the Pacific Northwest.
Credit: National Science Foundation