3 days ago · A Lafayette-based fishing charter company called the Gulf of America Outfitters strikes gold with President Donald Trump’s executive order of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Aug 16, 2024 · GULF OF MEXICO (KADN) — Officials allowed News 15 an exclusive, up-close look at a mysterious new island discovered nine miles off the coast of St. Mary Parish. Our journey to the new island started in Morgan City. With help from the US Coast Guard, we traveled down the Atchafalaya River.

Mar 7, 2024 · Located less than two hours from New Orleans, Lafayette, and Baton Rouge, Cypremort Point State Park is an ideal summer day trip. This man-made beach along Vermilion Bay near the Gulf of Mexico is a great spot for nature lovers.

The city of Lafayette, LA is located in the center of Lafayette Parish at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Interstate 49 between New Orleans and Houston and only 35 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico.

4 days ago · The gulf borders some 1,700 miles of U.S. coastline spanning Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, as well as parts of Cuba and Mexico.

Oct 5, 2021 · A University of Louisiana at Lafayette researcher is one of eight scientists chosen by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study the Gulf of Mexico’s changing ecosystem.

The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...

Jul 15, 2018 · View of the barrier islands off Lafayette, LA while conducting low-level aerial seabird surveys in the Gulf of Mexico, as part of the GoMMAPPS project.

Jul 29, 2024 · There is an increasing interdisciplinary interest in phytoplankton community dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico, where massive river input of nutrient-rich freshwaters leads to excessive richness of nutrients, harmful algal blooms and annual reoccurrence of bottom-water hypoxia events.

3 days ago · Using petroleum industry seismic data reflected from about 1500 m underground in central-northern Louisiana, Kinsland et al. (2021) imaged megaripples resulting from the 66 million year old Chicxulub Impact tsunami. Those megaripples resulted from the tsunami encountering the paleo-shelf break, shown as a change in color from blue of the deeper water to blue-grey of the paleo-shelf.