7: Environmental Issues: Coral Reefs Imperiled, The Dead Zone
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- 7.1: Lesson 7 Introduction
- Time to consider the shallow-marine environment and the impact of human activities on the critters that live there.
- 7.2: Marine Ecology: What Will the Future Bring?
- We could have subtitled this the "doom and gloom" lesson.
- 7.3: Is Chesapeake Bay Dying a Slow Death?
- By way of introduction, please view the power point presentation on the problem of dead zones, hypoxia, eutrophication and the health of Chesapeake Bay.
- 7.4: Dead Zones of the Gulf of Mexico and other Maladies
- Ok, so far you know a bit about hypoxia and dead zones on the basis of your exploration of Chesapeake Bay.
- 7.5: Red Tides: Don't Eat Seafood in Months without an "R"?
- Have you ever been told "don't eat seafood in months without an "r"?
- 7.6: Health Care for Corals?
- Coral reefs are widespread today in low latitude oceans where mean annual temperature and/or minimum temperatures at the sea surface (SST) are above 20°C.
- 7.7: Another Big Whammy for Coral Reefs: Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide?
- Yes, even at landlocked Penn State, we have a piece of shallow-marine environments, right in the midst of the bustle of the Hetzel Union Building (HUB) on campus.
- 7.8: Ocean Acidification and Coral Reefs
- Let's take some time to reflect on what we've just covered on coral reefs!
- 7.9: Additional Resources
- Here are several additional websites
- 7.10: Summary and Final Tasks
- Reminder - Complete all of the lesson tasks!
Thumbnail: A "red tide" off the coast of Washington state.
Source: Buckner