Sea surface brightness spectral anomalies from a Honolulu municipal outfall have been detected from space
satellites in 200 km2 areas extending 20 km from the wastewater diffuser (Leung and Gibson 2004, Bondur
2005, Keeler et al. 2005, Gibson et al. 2006). Dropsonde and towed body microstructure measurements show
greatly enhanced viscous and temperature dissipation rates above the outfall trapping-layer. Fossil-turbulencewaves
(FTWs) and secondary zombie-turbulence-waves (ZTWs) break as they propagate near-vertically and
then break again near the surface to produce wind-ripple smoothing with narrow-wavelength λ patterns from the
soliton-like internal waves that supply turbulence energy to advected outfall fossils and to the ZTWs they
radiate. The λ = 30-250 m solitons reflect an efficient maser-action conversion of horizontal tidal and current
kinetic energy by bottom boundary layer turbulence events to near-vertical FTWs with λ the Ozmidov scale of
the events at fossilization. Secondary (zombie) turbulence amplifies, channels in chimneys, and near-vertically
beams ambient internal wave energy at scales λ just as energized metastable molecules amplify and beam
quantum wavelengths in astrophysical lasers and masers around stars. Kilowatts of buoyancy power from the
treatment plant produce fossil turbulence patches trapped below the thermocline. Beamed zombie turbulence
maser action (BZTMA) in mixing chimneys amplifies these kilowatts into the megawatts of surface turbulence
dissipation required to affect brightness on wide sea surface areas. The BZTMA vertical mixing mechanism
appears critical to vertical oceanic transport of information, heat, mass and momentum, and to the conversion of
barotropic tides to baroclinic tides
