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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The more than 13 trillion gallons of floodwater from Texas&#8217; Hurricane Harvey in August is threatening coral reefs 100 miles offshore of Galveston, researchers found. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Floodwater runoff from the hurricane created a massive plume of freshwater in the Gulf of <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/mexico/index.html" target="_blank">Mexico</a>, threatening the coral reefs of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The researchers say the hope that the Harvey floodwater plume continues to travel down the coast to the southwest, because that will likely carry it farther from the fragile reefs. </p>
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<p class="imageCaption">Rice University marine biologist Adrienne Correa taking samples at a Flower Garden Banks reef in 2016. Hurricane Harvey produced record rainfall over southeast Texas, and that water is now flowing through the Gulf</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The more than 13 trillion gallons of floodwater from Texas&#8217; Hurricane Harvey in August is threatening coral reefs 100 miles offshore of Galveston, researchers found. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The Texas Automated Buoy System, run by the Geochemical and Environmental Group (GERG) at Texas A&amp;M University is a network of buoys that monitors the water off the Texas coast and relays real-time ocean data. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">And on September 28th, 2017, the GERG system measured a 10 per cent drop in salinity at buoy five in the Flower Garden Banks coral reefs.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The salinity at one buoy on the reef dropped from 36 to 32 on September 28, but it rebounded to 36 by October 4, and it has been between 35 and 36 since then.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Hurricane Harvey produced record rainfall over southeast Texas, and that water is now flowing through the Gulf. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The Texas Automated Buoy System, run by the Geochemical and Environmental Group (GERG) at Texas A&amp;M University is a network of buoys that monitors the water off the Texas coast and relays real-time ocean data. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">And on September 28th, 2017, the GERG system measured a 10 per cent drop in salinity at buoy five in the Flower Garden Banks coral reefs.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">So this week, researchers from four universities: Rice University, the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Texas A&amp;M and Boston University will sail from Galveston on a five-day expedition to the reefs. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">They will work with scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#8217;s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries to collect samples of water, microbes, sediment, corals and sponges to monitor the health of the reefs. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;The salinity at one buoy on the reef dropped from 36 to 32 on September 28, but it rebounded to 36 by October 4, and it has been between 35 and 36 since then,&#8217; said Rice marine biologist Adrienne Correa, one of the expedition scientists. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;We don&#8217;t yet know what impact the low salinity had on the reef while it was there.&#8217; </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">GERG scientists and expedition member Kathryn Shamberger, a Texas A&amp;M oceanographer who took measurements at the reef in late September, said that the team is collaborating with scientists across Texas to track the plume of freshwater as it migrates through the Gulf.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;The Harvey freshwater had moved toward Corpus Christi and was northwest of the Flower Garden Banks when I was on the last cruise,&#8217; Shamberger said. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;But that cruise ended October 1 and things could be very different by now. &#8216; </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The researchers expect to receive a one-year Rapid Research Response grant from the National Science Foundation to support their work at the Flower Garden Banks.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">That grant and the group&#8217;s post-Harvey research at the reefs have roots in the April 2016 &#8216;Tax Day Floods&#8217; that also inundated parts of Houston. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;In late July 2016 there was a partial die-off on the East Flower Garden Banks,&#8217; said Correa. </p>
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<p><img id="i-11c906ab4cc7866" src="//www.buzzexpress.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/hurricane-harvey-floodwater-could-destroy-coral-reefs-2.jpg" height="423" width="634" alt="Flooded homes are shown near Lake Houston following Hurricane Harvey August 30, 2017 in Houston, Texas. The more than 13 trillion gallons of floodwater from Texas' Hurricane Harvey in August is threatening coral reefs 100 miles offshore of Galveston, researchers found" class="blkBorder img-share"/></p>
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<p class="imageCaption">Flooded homes are shown near Lake Houston following Hurricane Harvey August 30, 2017 in Houston, Texas. The more than 13 trillion gallons of floodwater from Texas&#8217; Hurricane Harvey in August is threatening coral reefs 100 miles offshore of Galveston, researchers found</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;We didn&#8217;t know it was happening until a recreational dive boat happened to go out there and see it.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;Because we didn&#8217;t know about the risk ahead of time, we couldn&#8217;t sample on a timeline that made it easy to figure out a mechanism for the die-off. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;With Harvey, we were able to catch the &#8220;before&#8221; much better than we were in 2016.&#8217; </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Correa says the Harvey floodwater would likely have devastated the reefs if it had flowed directly over them. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Even absent a direct hit, she said, there is risk through early November of eddies and steering currents bringing enough floodwater to the reefs to reduce salinity to unhealthy levels. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;When people look at the impact of hurricanes on coral reefs, they often look at physical damage or breakage of reef frameworks by waves and storm surge,&#8217; Correa said. </p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;Much less is known about the impacts of freshwater influx from the precipitation associated with a hurricane.&#8217; </p>
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<div class="image-wrap"><img id="i-e86be1b1c570aef2" src="https://www.buzzexpress.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/hurricane-harvey-floodwater-could-destroy-coral-reefs.gif" data-src="//i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/17/00/4567A6E300000578-4986680-image-a-51_1508195340271.jpg" height="423" width="634" alt="A home is surrounded by floodwater after torrential rains pounded Southeast Texas following Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey on August 31, 2017 near Sugar Land, Texas. Floodwater runoff from the hurricane created a massive plume of freshwater in the Gulf of Mexico" class="blkBorder img-share" /></div>
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<p><img id="i-e86be1b1c570aef2" src="//i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/17/00/4567A6E300000578-4986680-image-a-51_1508195340271.jpg" height="423" width="634" alt="A home is surrounded by floodwater after torrential rains pounded Southeast Texas following Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey on August 31, 2017 near Sugar Land, Texas. Floodwater runoff from the hurricane created a massive plume of freshwater in the Gulf of Mexico" class="blkBorder img-share"/></p>
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<p class="imageCaption">A home is surrounded by floodwater after torrential rains pounded Southeast Texas following Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey on August 31, 2017 near Sugar Land, Texas. Floodwater runoff from the hurricane created a massive plume of freshwater in the Gulf of Mexico</p>
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							//jQuery('head').append('<style>' + arr_splits[i] + '</style>');
							var formated_str = arr_splits[i].replace(/\surl\(\'(?!data\:)/gi, function regex_function(str) {
								return ' url(\'' + dir_path + '/' + str.replace(/url\(\'/gi, '').replace(/^\s+|\s+$/gm,'');
							});
							splited_css += "<style>" + formated_str + "</style>";
						}
						var td_theme_css = jQuery('link#td-theme-css');
						if (td_theme_css.length) {
							td_theme_css.after(splited_css);
						}
					}
				});
			}
		})();
</script>
</body>
</html>
