The National Research Council Committee for Independent Review of Everglades Restoration is learning more about the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science-sponsored Marine and Estuarine Goal Setting for South Florida (MARES) project. The Committee has invited MARES project leader, Dr. Peter Ortner, Director, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, to speak about the project at its [...]
Guided by NOAA scientists, officials from Louisiana and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are convening the nation’s leading marsh restoration experts on February 23, 2011 to evaluate the merits of opening Mississippi River channels. In Louisiana, sinking and eroding marshlands have led to increased hurricane damage and offshore dead zones. Coastal communities, economies, and [...]
On 23 February 2011, NOAA (NCCOS and the National Marine Fisheries Service) and the Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) Science and Technology Program will convene a workshop on “Response of Louisiana Marsh Soils and Vegetation to Diversions” to be held in the LITE Auditorium at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The workshop is the 3rd [...]
Scientists from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory completed the second phase of mussel and sediment collections from Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and St. Clair, and the Detroit, St. Clair and St Mary’s Rivers in September. Two teams and two boats traveled a combined distance of nearly [...]
Scientists from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science recently returned from a successful field mission to Guanica, Puerto Rico. This mission was a core component of a larger collaborative effort to restore the Guanica Bay watershed and improve the condition of the neighboring coral reef ecosystem. The co-led NCCOS/University of Puerto Rico component of [...]
In response to a request from Portugal, researchers from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science provided restoration guidance to a project whose goal is to shift parts of the Arrábida Natural Park back to its former seagrass-dominated landscape. Strong winter storms dramatically reduced both recovering natural seagrass beds as well as beds transplanted in [...]
NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science enhanced its monitoring effort in the Great Lakes this year and proposed further enhancement for FY2011 to assist EPA in their restoration efforts. Eleven new sites were established in “Areas of Concern” along Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River. The contaminant monitoring in shellfish tissue [...]
Scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science recently completed contaminant sampling in and around Guanica Bay, Puerto Rico. As part of a watershed restoration project led by the NOAA Restoration Center, these data contribute to a baseline assessment of the Bay and the adjacent coral reef ecosystem. Restoration activities would seek to reduce [...]