The Great Lakes have multiple stresses acting on them, but offshore and nearshore systems may show different trends in relation to stresses. A new paper by NCCOS-supported researchers links these ...

The hypoxic zone located off the coast of Louisiana and Texas forms each summer and threatens valuable commercial and recreational Gulf fisheries. Seeking solutions to reduce the size of the ...

National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science supported scientists have documented that the 2011 "dead zone"(area of hypoxia, or low oxygen) in the northern Gulf of Mexico west of the Mississippi ...

The National Research Council Committee for Independent Review of Everglades Restoration is learning more about the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science-sponsoredMarine and Estuarine Goal Setting for South Florida(MARES) project ...

OLYMPIA - State health officials warn that a type of biotoxin never before found in Washington shellfish has been detected in shellfish from the Sequim Bay area. The discovery led ...

Researchers from NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) are laying the groundwork to fill gaps in coverage for screening shellfish collected by harvesters in rural Alaska. Using toxin ...

One of the greatest summertime headaches for western Lake Erie boaters and municipal water-treatment operators is back in full force. A huge bloom of potentially toxic microcystis algae, which has ...

This baseline assessment of Jobos Bay and surrounding marine ecosystems consists of a two part series. The first report (Zitello et al., 2008) described the characteristics of the Bay and ...

In order to assess whether U.S. Department of Agriculture best management practices in Puerto Rico benefit water quality around coral reefs, NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Science has completed the ...

In June, scientists predicted that the Gulf of Mexico's annual dead zone - a subsea region where the water contains too little oxygen to support life - might develop into ...