As scientists continue to research ways in which the oceans are changing – and what these changes mean for fish populations, three new research projects will receive funding to examine the effects of ocean acidification on fisheries, and the coastal economies that depend upon them. Ocean acidification occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from [...]
A session in Great Lakes Week 2012, an annual gathering of the diverse groups leading the fight to restore the Great Lakes, centers on a research project funded by NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. Dr. Don Scavia, lead investigator of the project “Forecasting the Causes and Consequences of Lake Erie Hypoxia” will be a panelist [...]
To anyone who has spent a languid summer afternoon tumbling in the waves on South Beach or watched the earth’s closest star dip into the horizon at Menemsha, the ocean can seem eternal and unchanging. But scientists are increasingly discovering that human activity is transforming what was once thought to be an invulnerable resource. The [...]
An Environmental Social Scientist at the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science traveled with NOAA colleagues to the US Virgin Islands the week of Feb 27th – March 2nd to lay the groundwork for a mapping study of human uses in the St Thomas East End Reserves (STEER). This spring, the project team will hold workshops on St [...]
Scientists from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, presented a paper detailing the importance of including human dimensions in monitoring activities associated with coastal restoration projects. It stressed the need to move to an evaluation of human-related impacts associated with restoration rather than more passive and short [...]
Ask a group of NCCOS ocean scientists why they do what they do, and chances are the word “health” will figure prominently in their answers. But is it public health as generally understood? Or ocean health, as in the “ecological health of the oceans” that professionals worry about? The answer is both. Both human and [...]