NOAA scientists: Midwest drought brings fourth smallest Gulf of Mexico 'Dead ...

Nancy Wallace, program director and division chief of NOAA's Marine Debris Program defines marine debris as any solid material that ends up in the marine environment of oceans, lakes and other waterways that shouldn't be there. Wallace says marineThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is responsible for broadcasting the signals used in weather radios. They use a protocol called Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) and recentlyNOAA-supported scientists have found the size of this year's Gulf of Mexico oxygen-free 'dead zone' to be the fourth smallest

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