Dead Zone

Every summer, a dead zone forms in the Chesapeake Bay.  It’s an area of such low oxygen that animals and plants have trouble surviving.  This coming spring, the University of Maryland  Center for Environmental Science, or UMCES, will be using a new robot, called the Kongsberg-Hydroid REMUS 600, to explore and gather data about the area.  Sheilah talks about it with Don Boesch, professor of Marine

We had plenty of rain over the weekend, but besides that Maryland has been experiencing one of the driest summers on record.  While the farmers have been lamenting the weather, one feature of our environment has benefited from the sauna-like heat: the Chesapeake Bay.  The lack of water has decreased the size of the dead zone in the Bay:  an area of such low oxygen that animals and

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