Scientists at NCCOS’s Center for Human Health Risk (CHHR) in Charleston, S.C., have some powerful new technology available to them in the form of two just-installed world-class nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instruments. The new technology is expected to be a focal point of the laboratory’s plans to address a range of human health and coastal [...]
The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science is leading two topical sessions at the upcoming 2006 Summer American Society for Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Meeting. The event offers participants the opportunity to discuss and present on issues centered around the theme “Global Challenges Facing Oceanography and Limnology”. For more detailed information about these special sessions, click [...]
Safety is front and center in all of NCCOS’s coastal science work. That’s the case not only in the white-collar business offices, but also
NOAA has awarded the University of Michigan $1.4 million to develop new approaches to improve management of excess nutrients and hypoxia within many estuarine systems across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The award is the first installment of a five-year, approximately $2.3 million grant. Hypoxia in aquatic systems occurs in waters where the dissolved oxygen [...]
NOAA today awarded East Carolina University more than $450,000 to develop of a geographic information systems (GIS) tool to predict ecosystem modification due to a rise in sea level in North Carolina. A rising sea level poses many threats to coastal cities, ports, and wetlands. An increase in sea level will provide a higher base [...]
NOAA has awarded the Virginia Institute of Marine Science more than $43,000 to study the impact of low oxygen levels on fish habitat quality in the coastal bays of Delaware. This award is the first installment of a three-year, approximately $135,314 grant. This project will support research to study how diel-cycling hypoxia
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $108,000 to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ($76,490) and Florida International University ($31,510) to study air-water gas exchange in Florida Bay and the links to biological production. This award is the final installment of a two-year grant from NOAA with a total value of approximately $216,000. The exchange of [...]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $150,000 to University of Texas at Austin ($37,277), University of Akron ($37,790), University of Minnesota ($37,485), and Florida International University ($37,448) to study how salinity variations affect ecological conditions and to determine the causes of algal blooms in Florida Bay. The award is the final installment of a [...]