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Tracking Fish Populations and Movements to Support...

We are studying the effect of watershed restoration on fish communities and their movements in mangrove estuaries in southwest Florida. Our goals are to compare fish movements and populations across ...
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Coastal Change, Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments, Marine Spatial Ecology, Regional Ecosystem Science, Restoration, Florida, U.S. States and Territories, matt.kendall@noaa.gov

Transportation Systems and Flood Resilience under ...

We are investigating how coastal flooding is impacting surface transportation networks in Hampton Roads, VA. This work combines hydrodynamic, morphodynamic, pavement, and economic models to predict the effectiveness of natural ...
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Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Other Topics, Sea Level Rise, Sponsored Research, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, trevor.meckley@noaa.gov

U.S. Virgin Islands Coral Reef Resilience Prioriti...

We are identifying coral reefs and underwater habitats in the U.S. Virgin Islands that have high resilience properties and potential to withstand current and forecasted climate change conditions, such as ...
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Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Coral, Marine Spatial Ecology, U.S. States and Territories, U.S. Virgin Islands, chris.jeffrey@noaa.gov, john.tomczuk@noaa.gov, ruben.van.hooidonk@noaa.gov, sarah.groves@noaa.gov, shay.viehman@noaa.gov

Ultraviolet (UV) light-enhanced toxicity of oil to...

One of the lingering questions after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill concerns the toxicity of thin oil sheens to aquatic species, and whether toxicity may be magnified by interaction of ...
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Biological Effects of Contaminants and Nutrients, Coastal Change, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Waterbodies, marie.delorenzo@noaa.gov, mike.fulton@noaa.gov

Understanding and Predicting Changes in Coastal Ma...

We are developing marsh conservation and restoration guidance for the central coastal region of North Carolina from eight years of yet unpublished, continuous water-level data combined with field measurements of ...
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Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Sea Level Rise, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, North Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, david.kidwell@noaa.gov

Using Uncrewed Aircraft Systems, Machine Learning,...

Marine debris injures and kills marine life, interferes with navigation safety, and poses a threat to human health. We are investigating and codifying a process to detect and identify marine ...
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Coastal Change, Restoration, Hawaii, Oregon, Texas, U.S. States and Territories, amy.uhrin@noaa.gov, tim.battista@noaa.gov

Vulnerability of Deep-Sea Coral Ecosystems to Ocea...

The high acidity and high dissolved inorganic carbon of the California Current ecosystem make it a natural laboratory to study the effects of ocean acidification and ocean warming on deep-sea ...
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Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Coral, Ocean Acidification, Alaska, California, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, peter.etnoyer@noaa.gov

Water and Sediment Quality Assessment at Cape Look...

In 2018, Hurricane Florence caused historic flooding in North and South Carolina, potentially affecting coastal environmental quality in the region due to salinity changes and redistributed contaminants and bacterial pathogens ...
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Biological Effects of Contaminants and Nutrients, Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments, Marine Spatial Ecology, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, North Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, marie.delorenzo@noaa.gov, pete.key@noaa.gov

Weather and Water: Using weather data to create mo...

Understanding and predicting climate-related issues along coastlines is important for management and coastal resiliency. We provide scientific information and tools on connections between climate, weather and coastal impacts from hazards ...
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Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Restoration, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Atlantic Ocean, Great Lakes, Waterbodies, doug.pirhalla@noaa.gov

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Researchers Study Ecological Role of North Carolin...

Shipwrecks and rocky reefs off the coast of North Carolina are home to commercially and recreationally important fish. Scientists with NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science are researching how ...
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December 3, 2019 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments, Habitat Mapping, Marine Spatial Ecology, North Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, avery.paxton@noaa.gov, chris.taylor@noaa.gov

NOAA Funds Post–Hurricane Dorian Data Collection t...

Figure 1. A) Track of Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall just north of Cape Lookout National Seashore on September 6, 2019. B) USGS projections of the probability of overwash due ...
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October 31, 2019 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Other Topics, Sea Level Rise, Sponsored Research, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, trevor.meckley@noaa.gov

NCCOS South Carolina Labs Host Congressman Joe Cun...

Congressman Joe Cunningham and the Charleston Lab Teams in front of Hollings Marine Lab in Charleston, South Carolina. On September 10, 2019, the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) ...
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October 22, 2019 Coastal Change, Oil Spill, Other Topics, Outreach, Restoration, , Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, sean.morton@noaa.gov

Swan Island Restoration Begins in Chesapeake Bay (...

Coastal islands and marshes in Chesapeake Bay are disappearing, along with the ecosystem services and shoreline protection benefits they provide. Within the last half century, the cumulative effects of shoreline ...
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October 21, 2019 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Restoration, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, jenny.davis@noaa.gov, paula.whitfield@noaa.gov

NCCOS Awards $1.5 Million to Support Coastal Commu...

NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) is awarding over $1.5M in FY19 for research into the ability of natural coastal habitats and partially engineered or restored habitats to ...
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New Technique Shows Oyster Shell Seeding is Possib...

The calcein fluorescent dye "tag" is shown here, glowing under special light. Credit: Jason Spires, NCCOS Traditional oyster restoration strategies involve seeding oyster shells with lab-harvested oyster larvae in enclosed ...
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October 1, 2019 Coastal Aquaculture Siting and Sustainability, Coastal Change, Marine Spatial Ecology, Other Topics, Restoration, Shellfish/Algae Planning and Siting, Technology Transfer, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, jason.spires@noaa.gov

Grasses Shape and Protect Coastal Dunes in Differe...

A study supported by NCCOS has found that the dominant type of beach grass influences the shape of coastal sand dunes, which in turn influences how well those dunes protect ...
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June 6, 2019 Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Other Topics, Restoration, Sea Level Rise, Sponsored Research, Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, Waterbodies, david.kidwell@noaa.gov

Artificial Reefs May Help Tropical Fish Expand Geo...

Globally, there is evidence that many tropical fish species are shifting their geographic ranges poleward and to deeper waters in response to changing ocean conditions. Off North Carolina, researchers have ...
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May 14, 2019 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Marine Spatial Ecology, North Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, chris.taylor@noaa.gov

NCCOS Scientist Helps Maryland Oyster Grower Decid...

Scott Budden, owner of Orchard Point Oyster Company, checks mortality of oysters at his Chester River, Maryland, oyster lease site. Credit: S. Bricker, NOAA NCCOS. Earlier this month, Dr. Suzanne ...
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April 15, 2019 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Aquaculture Siting and Sustainability, Coastal Change, Marine Spatial Ecology, Other Topics, People and Infrastructure, Restoration, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, suzanne.bricker@noaa.gov

New Tool Informs Dune Recovery After Storms

Cross-shore schematic of the coupled Windsurf modeling framework showing the general processes resolved by the three model cores: XBeach (a subtidal morphodynamics model), CDM (Coastal Dune Model), and Aeolis (aeolian ...
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February 26, 2019 Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Other Topics, Sea Level Rise, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, North Carolina, Oregon, U.S. States and Territories, alessandra.burgos@noaa.gov

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Long-term decline in the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa in central Chesapeake Bay, USA: An indirect effect of eutrophication

A long-term abundance record of the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay was compiled from 1966 to 2002. A significant downward trend in the summertime abundance of Acartia tonsa was found in central Chesapeake Bay ...
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Long-term monitoring of ecological conditions in Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary: Comparison of soft-bottom benthic assemblages and contaminant levels in sediments and biota in spring 2000 and 2005

As part of an ongoing program of benthic sampling and related assessments of sediment quality at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary (GRNMS) off the coast of Georgia, a survey of soft-bottom benthic habitats was conducted in spring 2005 to characterize ...
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Long-term trends in Chesapeake Bay seasonal hypoxia, stratification, and nutrient loading

A previously observed shift in the relationship between Chesapeake Bay hypoxia and nitrogen loading has pressing implications on the efficacy of nutrient management. Detailed temporal analyses of long-term hypoxia, nitrogen loads, and stratification were conducted to reveal different within-summer trends ...
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Long-term, high frequency in situ measurements of intertidal mussel bed temperatures using biomimetic sensors

At a proximal level, the physiological impacts of global climate change on ectothermic organisms are manifest as changes in body temperatures. Especially for plants and animals exposed to direct solar radiation, body temperatures can be substantially different from air temperatures ...
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Macrobenthos and megabenthos responses to long-term, large-scale hypoxia on the Louisiana continental shelf

The macrobenthos and megabenthos responses to long-term, recurring hypoxia on the Louisiana continental shelf were compared at four locations with different historical (20002010) episodes of annual exposure to bottom-water hypoxia. Measurements of abundance, biomass, species diversity, and community composition of ...
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Marsh macrophyte responses to inundation anticipate impacts of sea-level rise and indicate ongoing drowning of North Carolina marshes

In situ persistence of coastal marsh habitat as sea level rises depends on whether macrophytes induce compensatory accretion of the marsh surface. Experimental planters in two North Carolina marshes served to expose two dominant macrophyte species to six different elevations ...
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Metabolic balance between ecosystem production and consumption

This chapter reviews research on ecosystem metabolism in coastal environments, focusing on the history of methods development, spatial/temporal variations in rates, controlling factors, and application of these methods to address diverse scientific questions. Essential concepts and widely used terms are ...
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Microsatellite analysis to estimate realized dispersal distance in Phragmites australis

An understanding of the mean and maximum dispersal distances of target species and subsequent scaling of management efforts to dispersal distance can be key in slowing, containing, or eradicating invasive species. However, dispersal distance is often difficult to measure. Patterns ...
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Modeling Coastal Hypoxia: Numerical Simulations of Patterns, Controls and Effects of Dissolved Oxygen Dynamics

This book provides a snapshot of representative modeling analyses of coastal hypoxia and its effects. Hypoxia refers to conditions in the water column where dissolved oxygen falls below levels that can support most metazoan marine life (i.e., 2 mg O2 ...
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Modeling River-Induced Phosphorus Limitation in the Context of Coastal Hypoxia

The urban development of coastal areas and the increased use of chemical fertilizers over the last century have led to a worldwide expansion of coastal eutrophication and a significant increase in the occurrence and intensity of human-induced coastal hypoxia. Proportionally, ...
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