NCCOS scientists recently teamed with the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary aboard the NOAA ship NANCY FOSTER to initiate the first component of a comprehensive biogeographic assessment. This work will provide critical information to sanctuary management in the form of spatially quantified data on the abundance and distribution of a number of resident taxa [...]
Ocean color data from satellites have been successfully used by scientists for measuring and monitoring water quality indicators. However, the accuracy of such measurements can be reduced in the presence of air pollution and dust, which are especially persistent along the U.S. Northeast. Scientists from the Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA) have developed [...]
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)-sponsored scientists from the University of Rhode Island, Brown University, University of Connecticut, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and Narragansett Bay Estuary Program are working closely with state managers to assess the ecosystem responses to nitrogen load reductions and to develop a forecast model as a critical adaptive management [...]
A Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Science (CSCOR)-supported study through the Caribbean Coral Research Institute (CCRI) recently completed a first-order estimate of fishery impacts on wild populations of exploited species, an important component of developing a rational marine ornamental fishery management policy in Puerto Rico. CCRI scientists evaluated wild populations of >20 fish species and [...]
Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR)-supported researchers at the University of Miami have developed a hydrodynamic model to provide boundary conditions of currents, temperature, salinity and sea elevation for areas surrounding Florida Bay, and have provided the model code to the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). This product was identified as a priority [...]
The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science is sponsoring a workshop of national experts on modeling that will lead to methods of quantifying poorly understood uncertainties in a manner that managers can use in their decisionmaking. Areas of emphasis will include harmful algal blooms, ecosystem dynamics, fisheries and water quality, and the products will include [...]
Every two hours BreveBusters, deployed on fixed platforms in Charlotte Harbor and off the coast of Sarasota, record bloom conditions of the Florida red tide organism, Karenia brevis. Karenia species possess a unique pigment that changes how light passes through water. The in-water sensors, which can also be deployed in autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), detect Karenia blooms in real-time by [...]
CSCOR’s mission is to provide the highest quality research in support of coastal management decisions through competitive, peer-reviewed research and holistic ecosystem studies. To ensure that decision makers have access to timely, appropriate and useful information CSCOR periodically sponsors the publication of research information in peer-reviewed science journals. Most recently, CSCOR has sponsored the publication [...]