Helga do Rosario Gomes and Joaquim Goes are Goa's foremost oceanographers and environmental scientists based in the U.S. They have just published an important peer-reviewed research article in one of the world's best scientific journals called Nature Communications on the drastic climatic changes that are taking place in the Arabian sea along Goa's and Western India's coastline. Here is the link to their paper:
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140909/ncomms5862/full/ncomms5862.html#affil-auth Their research builds upon earlier findings that organisms that have lived in the northern Arabian sea for millions of years, and have been a critical component of the food chain for fish and fish eaters in these parts are being replaced by another type of organism. They have discovered that this upheaval is taking place because of inflow of massive quantities of oxygen-deficient water due to climatic changes. They suggest that these changes could produce unprecedented long term negative impact on fisheries and ecology of the west coast of India. To do this important research Helga and Joaquim collaborated with scientists at the National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula and Goa University, as well as other universities and research laboratories in the U.S. I congratulate Helga and Joaquim for this highly significant contribution to science. Cheers, Santosh
