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Puget Sound Harmful Algal Blooms Linked to Seasona...

In order to predict blooms and prevent undue economic loss of commercial shellfish in Puget Sound, NCCOS has sponsored research investigating the seasonal patterns and mechanisms of bloom formation of ...

Assessing Future Harmful Algal Bloom Risk for Wash...

In Puget Sound, the toxic algaAlexandrium catenellathreatens the health of people who eat shellfish contaminated with toxins it produces. An NCCOS Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB ) ...

Upwelling Controls HAB Movement toward Pacific NW ...

This graphic shows how displaced surface waters are replaced by cold, nutrient-rich water that “wells up” from below. Conditions are optimal for upwelling along the coast when winds blow along ...

Primary Cause of Dead Zones is Biological on Pacif...

Coastal waters of the northern portion of the California Current System experience a seasonal decline in oxygen concentrations and increasing hypoxia (dead zones) over the summer upwelling season resulting in ...

What Powers Florida Red Tides?

The results of a long-term research project, sponsored by NOAA'sNational Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, focused on the Gulf of Mexico red tide are featuredin a special issue of the ...

How Climate Change Could Impact Harmful Algal Bloo...

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are projected to increase as sea surface temperatures rise and ocean acidification continues according to Dr. Alan Lewitus, of NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science ...

Automated Sensor Provides Texas with Early Warning...

Last week, an NCCOS-funded sensor installed on a Port Aransas pier alerted Texas agencies to rising concentrations of Karenia brevis, the marine dinoflagellate that causes red tides. The Imaging FlowCytobot ...

Tenacity of Brown Tides Linked to Genetic Flexibil...

The genetic flexibility of Aureococcus anophagefferens, the harmful alga responsible for "brown tides" off Long Island, allows it to thrive in conditions other algae cannot tolerate. NCCOS-sponsored scientists assessed this ...

Glider Begins Second Deployment to Monitor Threate...

A red tide of Karenia brevis in the Gulf of Mexico continues its slow advance toward Florida's southwest coast. NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) rapid response emergency ...

NCCOS Scientist to Advise Shellfish Sanitation Exp...

The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science's (NCCOS) Dr. Quay Dortch will jointhe Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC) as an expert advisor. Dr. Dortch's advice and expertise will contribute to ...

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