An intern blog by Erika Koontz '17, Washington College. During the third week of July, I set sail on the NOAA ShipNancy Fosterwith scientists from NOAA's Beaufort lab, Coastal Carolina ...

NCCOS scientists aboard the NOAA ship Nancy Foster provided near real-time mapping data to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council as they considered designating a new special management zone to ...

Erika Koontz sieves through a sediment sample for benthic infauna. Credit: NOAA. Hello from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster! My name is Erika Koontz and I am an undergraduate student at ...

To ensure consistency in the quality of scientific echosounder and sonar data being collected by NOAA research ships, NCCOS has partnered with the Office of Exploration and Research to calibrate ...

Seafloor maps that include fishery echosounder data from the NCCOS-led coral reef ecosystem characterization surveys of the US Caribbean (2010-2014) are now available to the public through the National Geophysical ...

A NOAA diver surveys the fish community of natural hardbottom habitat in a proposed wind energy call area off of Cape Fear. Credit: Emily Pickering. Earlier this month, NCCOS researchers ...

Notes from the scientific expedition team currently aboard the NOAA ShipNancy Foster (March 15 -April 3): Finding Fish and My 'Sea Legs' by Jennifer Johnson, NOAA Hollings Scholar Guest Blogger ...

Notes from the scientific expedition team currently aboard the NOAA ShipNancy Foster (March 15 -April 3): Spawning aggregations of reef fish in the Caribbean could be considered some of the ...

NEW!!! Follow the glider in real-time, and see the ocean currents(Google Earth required) that the glider is using to travel the coast. Two autonomous ocean gliders will travel the waters ...

Side-scan sonar image from a recent survey to map the seafloor of the Wilmington East Wind Energy Call Area. Credit: David Bernstein The first of three research missions to map ...