Oxygen transition in the Chesapeake Bay

I created this video for my presentation at MEES (Marine Estuarine Environmental Science at University of Maryland) Colloquium meeting. I was honored to give a talk as a representative of oceanographic students.

I used data downloaded from the Chesapeake Bay Program. Cool colors show where oxygen depleted in warmer seasons, and this is called anoxic or dead zone. And numbers above the map are months in numbers (e.g. January = 1, December =12) in 2011.

Dead zone occurs almost all around the World due to human input of organic matter (basically trash and nutrients). There are tremendous works done in the topic and ,especially, if you want to find out what it is and how it affects marine lives, please check here.

Enjoy watching the video!