Red tides have made many people sick such as residents and tourists of Florida’s Gulf Coast. The tides also have affected many business owners because many tourists don’t want to come to beach resorts because of Red tides. Red tides are caused by two ways. One of the ways are the algae reproducing and giving an effect of toxic air. Many outbreaks have also occurred because of red tides. Such of these things include poising form fish and shellfish. To stop Red tides, many researchers have done numerous experiments to try to find a way a way to stop Red tides! There are three main solutions to stopping Red tides. If we try to do these solutions red tides will decrease in the amount of times they occur. Residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast have been affected majorly by Red tides. Richard Leydon, a resident, said that the wind blew from the gulf. It made his chest tighten, he grew short of breath, his throat felt scratchy, his eyes burned, and his head throbbed. It was horrible. He felt as if he had spent a whole day in a pool that is over-chlorinated. Richard Leydon also has a son that has asthma. When the breeze of toxic blows from the red tide, his son coughs and coughs, until he vomits. In the weekends, the family goes away from the Island to Orlando. They want their son to play somewhere. The reason they have to go to Orlando is because he cannot go outside where he lives because of the toxic air that is blowing. Not only do residents get affected by Red tides, but so do tourists. Tourists have said that the Red tides come and go. They say that the toxins transported by air do not prompt health issues, but if there is an onshore breeze then it is a problem. On one side of the coast, the people might... ... middle of paper ... ...ere are solutions to it. One way to stop Red tides is by stopping global warming! Red tides have affected many and has caused damage to both humans and animals. Works Cited 1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “A ‘Red tide’ is a common term used for a harmful algal bloom.” What is a red tide? National ocean service, 2014. Web. 23 May, 2014. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/redtide.html 2. Weiss, Kenneth. “Dark Tides, III Winds.” Altered Oceans. Times Staff Writer, 2006. Web. 23 May, 2014. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-oceans-series,0,7783938.special 3. Akai, Takatoshi. “Red Tide.” Slideshare. LinkedIn Corporation, 2014. Web. 23 May, 2014. http://www.slideshare.net/yfd07336/red-tide 4. Bruckner, Monica. “Red Tide- A Harmful Algae Bloom.” Microbial Life, 2014. Web. 24 May, 2014. http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/redtide/index.html
Dinoflagellates are one of the four main types of phytoplankton, which are photosynthetic, single celled and free living organisms in the ocean. Dinoflagellates cause the Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) also known as the red tide effect (Hackett et al 2004). Toxicity persisting at upper levels of the food chain is detected in them from the ones which are toxic, but not all such blooms are toxic. Enhanced detection capabilities may in part contribute to observed high frequency and severity of toxic blooms. As they are also important in the health of coral reefs their study has gained significant interest. Species are often selected for genome sequencing based on their importance as a model organism or relevance to human health, such as the HAB case.
cut back on the problems in the Bay. Scientists have given an unthinkable amount of attention to the Bay of the past several years and researchers from countless numbers of agencies and institutions have dove deep into the issues and studying every nook and cranny to create answers to every politicians’ questions. The biggest concern with the Bay, and the most concentrated ...
Carson has written this essay to provide insight about the tide currents of the deep waters. She also raises insight awareness on planetary forces and physical dimensions. Carson’s main focus consists on informing the readers about the size, timing, and occurrences the tides correlated with. Statistics and studies are given to further elaborate and assist Rachel’s theory that states “In every country the moon keeps ever the rule of alliance with the sea which-it once for all has agreed upon." From the tone of the essay, it can be seen that the theme contains educational content that has significant importance to the global being.
Los Angeles Times, altered oceans: sentinels under attack. July 31, 2006. By Kenneth R. Weiss
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea: True Order Exists in the Exposed Core
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”. Elements of Literature: Fifth Course. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2008. 196. Print.
Imagine living in paradise where the sky is blue, the ocean is a beautiful light blue color and the coral reef is filled with magnificent colors and it is healthy as can be. That's how the coral used to be but because of us humans now, the coral is bleached and it is close to dying. Coral reefs play a very important role in the marine life community. If the coral reefs die, then that mess with the food chain for everyone. This research paper will be talking about the background on coral bleaching, the effects of coral bleaching, and solutions for coral bleaching.
This event resulted in an outbreak of coral disease and macro algae, ultimately reducing reef quality.
“The Tide Rises the Tide Falls” written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1880 illustrates the nature of circles of life which keeps recurring and helps us to learn that time will never stop to give you an opportunity or make an experience last longer despite what we are going through. The theme of the poem is adequately communicated by the poet as he explicitly uses the use of alliteration, imagery and
I decided to focus this Mathematical Exploration on the math behind oceanic tides. I began by looking at the generic possibilities set out by my teacher. Among them was the idea of math being applied to water. In my initial search I found nothing that seemed interesting to me, however, I wanted to stick to the broad topic of water. After continued search I decided to focus on a subject important to me the ocean, specifically oceanic tides. Every year my family takes a trip to California for a week at the beach and since I was a little kid I was perplexed that the water would come up the beach at night and recede during the day. As I grew older and I learned this movement was called the tide and was caused by the moon and the sun’s gravity affecting the ocean. Thus I decided to take the exploration as a chance to further my knowledge of this subject and tides became my subject for this.
. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is the 208-foot tall landmark was just hauled more than a quarter-mile back from its former perch, where it was threatened by the encroaching sea. Coastal erosion chewed away about 1,300 feet of beach, bringing the waves to within 150 feet of the 4,800-ton sentinel. When the light was erected in 1870, it stood about 1,500 feet back from the waves. The lighthouse, on the Outer Banks, North Carolina's long barrier beach, was built to warn ships from waters called "the graveyard of the Atlantic." Ironically, the move should serve as a warning about the growing problem of coastal erosion. Erosion is not just plaguing the Outer Banks. Coastal residents up and down the United States are worrying about undermined cliffs, disappearing beaches, and the occasional dwelling diving into the briny. Beaches are constantly moving, building up here and eroding there, in response to waves, winds, storms and relative sea level rise. Yet when commoners like you and me, and celebs like Steven Spielberg, build along the beach in places like Southampton, N. Y., we don't always consider erosion. After all, real-estate transactions are seldom closed during hurricanes or northeasters, which cause the most dramatic damage to beaches. Yet Southampton, like all the barrier beaches that protect land from the sea, is vulnerable to obliteration by the very factor that makes it so glamorous: the sea. And the problem is increasing because the sea is rising after centuries of relatively slow rise, and scientists anticipate that the rate of rise will continue to increase in the next century. Land, in many places, is also slowly sinking. The result is a loss of sand that places the occasional beachside home inconveniently near -- or in -- the water. Still, erosion cuts in two directions. Without the process of erosion, we would not have the beaches, dunes, barrier beaches, and the highly productive bays and estuaries that owe their very existence to the presence of barrier beaches. Erosion of glacial landforms provides most of the beach sand in Massachusetts. A popular destination The beach-erosion problem has many causes. Among them are: · The ubiquitous desire to live near the sea. · A historically rapid ri...
Due to rising ocean temperatures the coral on the reef is dying and becoming bleached.
Algal blooms are when algae grows at a fast rate and accumulate near the surface, hence the term "algal bloom". The term "Red Tide" is a misnomer because it has nothing to do with the tides. It refers to a specific type of algal bloom that occurs when certain species of phytoplankton that contain red pigments "bloom" causing the water to look red. Red Tides are usually not harmful.
This problem may seem prevalent and it is very important to know about. It affects marine life in many ways, but humans are also greatly affected.by this problem. People don’t realize what this problem does to them. However the human race can always work and solve this issue. People shouldn’t dump trash in the ocean or any water source. Trash can destroy coral reefs and other important ecosystems and ruin marine life. Most important sewage plants shouldn’t dump raw sewage into the ocean because it provides nutrients to harmful algae. Governments around the world should put more restrictions on sewage and the disposal of it. But if the solution wants to be solved people must work together.
In a world divided by war, it is easy to overlook problems that affect all of mankind. The dramatic rise in ocean levels worldwide constitutes just that sort of problem. Although the fundamental problem of global warming has been given airtime and plenty of written-media coverage, the problem of rising sea levels seems to have met a certain amount of apathy. A likely explanation is that the rising sea levels mainly threatens impoverished peoples that may have no choice but to doubt the threat, since there is no way for them to relocate. Concurrently, Americans, seemingly beset by some false sense of well-being, really have no fear of the possible annihilation of our coastal cities. Granted, the worst case scenario (the total loss of all glacial ice) would take several hundred years to become a reality, but the possibilities are frightening.