Chandeleur Sound

The foundation's research also showed optimal salinity for oysters in a thin strip of water in the Breton Sound, the Chandeleur Sound, and areas along the Mississippi coast. Most areas with optimal salinity are north of the now-closed Mississippi River Gulf-Outlet shipping channel. Fewer spots below the ...

14,000: Square miles of Southeast Louisiana covered on the model, including Terrebonne and Barataria bays, the Mississippi delta and Chandeleur Sound. 1 foot = 1 mile: One foot on the model equals roughly a mile of land. The high-density foam used for the model's surface was carved using billions of ...

A second landfall is likely on the Mississippi coast in a few hours after the eye of the storm passes over the Chandeleur Sound. The hurricane center said Nate has maximum sustained winds of 85 mph. Rains had already soaked coastal Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi much of Saturday. As the storm ...

In a 1:16 p.m. alert, the National Weather Service said radar spotted showers and thunderstorms from an outer rain band of Nate located along a line from Chandeleur Sound to Arabi to near Houma, and moving northwest at 30 mph. One wind gust was measured at 52 mph in Belle Chasse as the storm ...

Monitoring began in 2016 along the southeastern coast from Bayou Lafourche to the Chandeleur Sound. The new grant will allow the coastal authority to extend monitoring to the Louisiana-Texas border. Among the things SWAMP monitors are underwater topography, water quality, water salinity and ...

In the tradition of Jared Diamond's best-seller Collapse (2004) and Simon Winchester's Atlantic (2010) comes Jack E. Davis' nonfiction epic, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, which strives both to celebrate and defend its subject — the Gulf of Mexico. Its Texas coastline is featured prominently in ...

Projects also would stabilize wetland edges at Proctor Point and on the east and west sides of Lake Borgne, and the planting of 5.8 miles of artificial oyster reef on the Chandeleur Sound side of the Biloxi Marsh. In the aftermath of the corps' decision to halt work on the project, the state has included some of ...

Photo provided by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries -- A dolphin pushes a dead calf in March, 2013. This behavior is sometimes observed in female dolphins when their newborn calf does not survive. Stillborn, dead young dolphins along the Gulf Coast died in areas damaged by Deepwater ...

A Coast Guard helicopter crew early Monday rescued three "lost and disoriented" people who were stranded on an island in the Chandeleur Sound after they said their boat overturned during bad weather. No injuries were reported. The trio included a 73-year-old man, but the Coast Guard provided no ...

gulf_oil_shrimp_boats_chandeleur_sound.jpg View full sizeEric Gay, The Associated Press archiveThe BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not considered a primary cause of the Chandeleur Sound dead zone, because a similar dead zone was detected in 2008, when there was no spill. These shrimp boats ...

The foundation's research also showed optimal salinity for oysters in a thin strip of water in the Breton Sound, the Chandeleur Sound, and ...

... miles of Southeast Louisiana covered on the model, including Terrebonne and Barataria bays, the Mississippi delta and Chandeleur Sound.

A second landfall is likely on the Mississippi coast in a few hours after the eye of the storm passes over the Chandeleur Sound. The hurricane ...

... thunderstorms from an outer rain band of Nate located along a line from Chandeleur Sound to Arabi to near Houma, and moving northwest at ...

Monitoring began in 2016 along the southeastern coast from Bayou Lafourche to the Chandeleur Sound. The new grant will allow the coastal ...

Scott Angelle is the new director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. He was head of the Louisiana Department of Natural ...

A pod of bottlenose dolphins swims under the oily water of Chandeleur Sound, La., in 2010, after the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

The report notes that the industry reported one spill in the Chandeleur Sound as 8.5 gallons. SkyTruth, a group that studies satellite imagery of ...

... east and west sides of Lake Borgne, and the planting of 5.8 miles of artificial oyster reef on the Chandeleur Sound side of the Biloxi Marsh.

Photo provided by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries -- A dolphin pushes a dead calf in March, 2013. This behavior is sometimes ...

The Coast Guard says one of its helicopter crews rescued three boaters who were left stranded on Freemason Island, after their boat ...

Because Chandeleur Sound is partially protected by the Chandeleur Island chain and Ship Island at the northern end, Lopez said the ...

Monitoring began in 2016 along the southeastern coast from Bayou Lafourche to the Chandeleur Sound. The new grant will allow the coastal ...

The animals can already be found around the Biloxi Marsh, but they should appear farther out into the Chandeleur Sound, he said. Hypoxia ...

A pod of bottlenose dolphins swims under the oily water of Chandeleur Sound, La., in 2010, after the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

The report notes that the industry reported one spill in the Chandeleur Sound as 8.5 gallons. SkyTruth, a group that studies satellite imagery of ...

... neighboring Mobile Bay, and milder tasting Champagne Bay and Area 3 oysters (taken from the Chandeleur Sound) represented Louisiana.

The movie "Deepwater Horizon" gets the facts right, and admirably so - but only up to a point. You could imagine all manner of ways in which ...

... east and west sides of Lake Borgne, and the planting of 5.8 miles of artificial oyster reef on the Chandeleur Sound side of the Biloxi Marsh.

Photo provided by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries -- A dolphin pushes a dead calf in March, 2013. This behavior is sometimes ...

The Coast Guard says one of its helicopter crews rescued three boaters who were left stranded on Freemason Island, after their boat ...

In particular, bottlenose dolphins and sea turtles are dying in record numbers, and the evidence is stronger than ever that their demise is ...

Because Chandeleur Sound is partially protected by the Chandeleur Island chain and Ship Island at the northern end, Lopez said the ...

The report notes that the industry reported one spill in the Chandeleur Sound as 8.5 gallons. SkyTruth, a group that studies satellite imagery of oil sheens after accidents, estimated it was at least 116 gallons.

Its most recent project involved collecting data along the edges of the Gulf that NOAA is using to provide a temporary water route through Chandeleur Sound for the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The new route will be about a 100-mile detour for ...

Projects also would stabilize wetland edges at Proctor Point and on the east and west sides of Lake Borgne, and the planting of 5.8 miles of artificial oyster reef on the Chandeleur Sound side of the Biloxi Marsh. In the aftermath of the corps ...

Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 21, 2010. The blowout in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people and sent 4.9 million barrels of oil gushing from the sea floor into the Gulf.

Last week Google gave the Google Earth global mosaic a makeover. When we were having a look at some of the minor issues with the new mosaic we noted some odd patterns in Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana. We have since found what we believe are ...

A pod of Bottle Nose dolphins swim under the oily water of Chandeleur Sound, La., Thursday, May 6, 2010. Oil giant BP PLC's oil rig exploded April 20, in the Gulf of Mexico killing 11 workers.

A line of thunderstorms that pushed through the New Orleans metro area is now stretched from the Mississippi Gulf Coast to the Chandeleur Sound and over Plaquemines Parish. As the line advances east, it has the potential to strengthen and could produce ...