Drilling thousands of meters down into the ocean to sample and study deep ocean crust that is millions of years old, today the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) embarks upon a two-expedition scientific drilling project to the South Atlantic Ocean, with a Texas A&M University scientist at the helm of each expedition.
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Rice University: Houston Flooding Polluted Reefs More Than 100 Miles Offshore
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HOUSTON, Texas,
Runoff from
Houston s 2016 Tax Day flood and 2017 s Hurricane Harvey flood carried human waste onto coral reefs more than 100 miles offshore in the Flower Garden Banks National
Marine Sanctuary, according to a
Rice University study. We were pretty shocked, said marine biologist
Adrienne Correa, co-author of the study in Frontiers in Marine Science. One thing we always thought the Flower Garden Banks were safe from was terrestrial runoff and nutrient pollution. It s a jolt to realize that in these extreme events, it s not just the salt marsh or the seagrass that we need to worry about. Offshore ecosystems can be affected too.
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