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NCCOS Delivers Hard Truths on Hardened Shorelines ...
NCCOS-sponsored researchers have found that hardened shorelines have negative effects on fish; invertebrates, such as oysters and crabs; and submerged aquatic vegetation. Shoreline hardening is an attempt to stabilize coastal ...
NOAA Environmental Cooperative Science Center Stud...
A graduate student at University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, Leticia Contreras, recently completed a month-long stay at NOAA'sCenter for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research in Beaufort, NC. Contreras worked with ...
NCCOS and Partners Conduct Ecological Assessment i...
NCCOS led a six month-long ecological assessment (EA) this year in the Tred Avon River, the largest tributary of the Choptank River in Chesapeake Bay. The Choptank River Complex is ...
NOAA Releases Guidance for the Use of Living Shore...
NOAA released Guidance for Considering the Use of Living Shorelines today. This publication was developed in an agency-wide effort to clarify NOAA's encouragement for the use of living shorelines as ...
Dolphin Entanglements Follow Historic 1,000 Year R...
NCCOS staff successfully cut a crab pot buoy line from an entangled dolphin in Charleston Harbor on October 13, 2015. Credit: NOAA. From October 1 through October 5, 2015 South ...
NOAA and Louisiana Collaborate on Mississippi Rive...
The 5th Annual NOAA/Northern Gulf Institute Gulf Hypoxia Research Coordination Workshop (see "previous workshops - 2014") brought together Louisiana state officials, federal and other state agencies, NGOs, and academic scientists ...
Sea Level Rise Shoreline Model Reconstructs Past t...
A unique NCCOS sponsored study, recently published in Continental Shelf Research, examined the influence of sea level rise (SLR) on historic mainland and barrier island beaches and salt marshes of ...
NCCOS Sponsors 20 New Research Projects
NCCOS awarded nearly $4.5 million in new research grants while maintaining sponsorship of 42 continuing projects during 2015 for a total of $8.2 million in funding for innovative research. All ...
Government Regulators Consider Negative Impacts of...
Results from a six-year NCCOS sponsored study on the impacts of different approaches to erosion control — seawalls, riprap, and "living shorelines" — on submerged aquatic plants, crabs, fish, ducks, ...
New FY 2016 Funding Opportunity Available to Resea...
NCCOS hascreated a funding opportunity for Fiscal Year 2016 for researchersto assessthe ability of natural and nature-based coastal features to mitigate the effects of sea level rise and coastal inundation ...
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