User:Piyrwq

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Hi, my name is Ryan. I'm a chemist/oceanographer. Please feel free to say hi, here.

[edit] Anoxic-Hypoxic

Hi ! It would be nice if a knowledgeable person could straighten out, separate or combine the topics of Anoxic basins, Anoxic sea water, Hypoxic sea water and Dead zone (ecology). I have made this suggestion to you and to User:Plumbago. Bejnar 22:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Bejnar. Anoxia isn't a specialty of mine, but I know a bit about it, so I'll try to have a look at improving the pages. It does look like the three pages are repetitive and could be merged into a single article (ocean anoxia?). Each does come at it from a different angle, but an uber-article could subsume all three and reduce the overlap. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll let you know when I get round to making changes. Cheers, --Plumbago 09:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll be happy to help, though I am still a bit of a beginner with wikipedia, especially when it comes to formatting. I'm also trying to stay a little more focused on my work these days. Maybe I can best help by prompting a colleague whom is an ocean oxygen guru to try out wiki.
As for how to approach this, I think maybe an uber-article is the way to go. I noticed the hypoxia article is titled Oxygen depletion; anoxia would definitely fit under that definition. Dead zone I'm a little unsure of; is oxygen depletion the only cause of a dead zone? Also, there doesn't seem to be an Ocean redox article; such an article could become enormous if we begin to consider oxygen depletion, denitrification, organic matter, sulfides, sediments, metals redox, eutrophication etc. I'm not sure what the solution is, maybe we can start by moving this discussion to Talk:Oxygen_depletion. --Piyrwq 00:29, 16 May 2006 (UTC)