Ocean dead zones are "the new normal," according to Jane Lubchenco, marine biologist at Oregon State University in this article in the L.A. Times. The low oxygen zones off the west coast appear to be spreading--exacerbated by global warming and overfishing. Grrlscientist has a good review of the dead zone paper published in Science last week. While she was discussing her work at AAAS, Lubchenco also voiced support for ScienceDebate2008.
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For DC readers, NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco will be speaking at American University tonight. Details are below
First Stephen Chu for energy secretary, then John Holdren for science adviser.
Updated - The archived video is now available on the committee website, so I've been able to go back and fill in the details I missed due to earlier technical problems.
This news is a bit old, but I'm still excited abo