In mid-January, 2016, NCCOS funded investigators from Texas A&M University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution convened a group of scientists and managers to produce a first-ever consensus vision for ...

At a recentmeeting of the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC), a panel of researchers and managers briefedthe council on the Summer 2015West Coast harmful algal bloom (HAB) event and other ...

Professor Greg Boyer, with the algal toxins laboratory at the Environmental Science and Forestry of the State University of New York (SUNY-ESF) continues to demonstrate a valuable capacity for the ...

Angelicque White. Credit: Oregon State University. Dr. Angelicque White, an NCCOS-sponsored researcher,received the 2016 Yentsch-Schindler Early Career Award for her groundbreaking, multidisciplinary research. The award, given by the Association for ...

NCCOS co-sponsored the Eighth Symposium on Harmful Algae in the United States,held this past November in Long Beach, California. The biennial event provides a forum for scientific exchange and technical ...

The ongoing West Coast harmful algal bloom (HAB) highlights the need for improved regional monitoring of toxic algae in the California Current along the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington ...

Preliminary results from the fourth and final Coral Ecosystem Connectivity expedition (August 22 – September 4, 2015) to Pulley Ridge (off the southwest coast of Florida) show the new coral ...

In order to improve coastal resilience, scientists used the SWARM modeling system to investigate runoff in certain watersheds in South Carolina (SC). Research results from this collaborative project to prioritize ...

NCCOS is developing a workable, ecosystem-based management approach to address the complex and inter-linked marine-estuarine-terrestrial environment in south Florida. Building on traditional Integrated Conceptual Ecosystem Models, the NCCOS-sponsored research project ...

NOAA researchers obtain a tissue sample from a tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) in Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument; the shark was released unharmed. Credit: Robert Schwemmer/NOAA In a newly published study, ...