EPA Region 5 in Chicago recently hosted the second meeting on "effects-based" monitoring in theGreat Lakes and scientists from NCCOS' Mussel Watch Program attended. Scientists have longrecognized that chemical contaminant ...

The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) has developed a DNA microarray for profiling gene expression patterns in blood to aid in clinical and population level studies of domoic ...

In a first-ever collaboration, findings from NCCOS's long-term research into the causes and consequences of the Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" were included in the National Weather Service annual spring ...

Despite the long history of invasion by aquatic nuisance species to the Great Lakes, deciding which invasive species poses the biggest threat has proved to be a big challenge for ...

SPR chips are about the size of a dime. An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)-based HAB sensor currently under development is being targeted for integration within the rapidly emerging IOOS infrastructure ...

Interdisciplinary, cross-agency partnerships are key to managing ecosystem-scale challenges, but the ability to form lasting partnerships that truly meet the science needs of managers is often hindered by ignorance of ...

Solid-phase extraction NCCOS scientists have optimized their previous solid-phase extraction methods in conjunction with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to improve the sensitivity of domoic acid determination in seawater and phytoplankton cells ...

Scientists aren't clear on the specifics of how harmful algal toxins get intotop predators, but a recent study showed that whenFlorida red tides bloom, a wide rangeof bottom-dwelling creatures become ...

Research conducted by scientists at the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science's (NCCOS) will be published as a chapter in, Quagga and Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Control, Second Edition, ...

A quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay has been developed for the dominant HAB species that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning in Alaskan waters. This assay provides positive identification ofAlexandrium fundyenseand ...