Harmful Algal Blooms
NCCOS scientist, Rick Stumpf tests Lake Erie waters for cyanobacteria.
NCCOS scientist, Sean Morton collects macroalgae from Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary for processing and toxin analysis at Hollings Marine Lab.
NCCOS scientists, Sean Morton collected a bag of macroalgae while on a mission aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster to support the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Southeast Regional Ecosystem Assessment. The samples will be processed analyzed for toxins.
Kari St. Laurent, Steve Kibler, and Connor Cleary (NMFS) carry coolers of water samples off the boat after a day on the water. Samples are analyzed for chlorophyll content, as well as Alexandrium concentration and toxicity, to be used to develop forecasts for Kodiak, AK.
HAB Forecasting branch chief Kari St. Laurent collects a sample of seawater that has been poured through a phytoplankton net. Data from June-August HAB collection from Kodiak, AK, will be used to test for Alexandrium concentrations and toxicity.
Corals
A diver swims over a coral reef in St. Croix, USVI as part of NOAA's National Coral Reef Monitoring Program. NCCOS supports this effort.
A diver swims over a coral reef transect in St. Croix as part of NOAA's National Coral Reef Monitoring Program.
A diver monitors a coral reef in St. Croix, USVI as part of NOAA's National Coral Reef Monitoring Program. NCCOS supports this effort.
A diver monitors a coral reef in St. Croix, USVI as part of NOAA's National Coral Reef Monitoring Program. NCCOS supports this effort.
NCCOS scientists help monitor the coral reefs around St. Croix as part of NOAA's National Coral Reef Monitoring Program.
Coastal and Marine Planning
Restoration
Deploying wave gauges to measure wave attenuation at marsh sill 'living shorelines' at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores in Bogue Sound, NC.
Deploying wave gauges to measure wave attenuation at marsh sill 'living shorelines' at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores in Bogue Sound, NC.
Conducting surveys to measure horizontal and vertical changes in the shoreline behind the living shoreline. Work pictured is being conducted at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores in Bogue Sound, NC.
NCCOS scientists took a drone selfie as they assessed the condition of the local living shoreline in Pine Knoll Shores. The newly installed living shoreline spans some 4,000 linear feet and is designed to protect infrastructure, hiking trails, and rapidly eroding marsh and maritime forest shorelines.
Kasitsna Bay Lab researcher Paul Cziko stands next to a fish passage that was added to a dam in the only salmon run in Seldovia, AK. In partnership with the town of Seldovia, the lab aims to continue stream restoration and dam removal to allow full access for commercially important salmon species.
Aquaculture Development
John A. Knauss Fellow Beryl Kahn mixes a phytoplankton slurry to feed butter clams as part of a University of Alaska Fairbanks clam disturbance study.
John A. Knauss Fellow Beryl Kahn collects clippings of giant kelp, a non-native species in Alaska. Kasitsna Bay Lab researchers aim to find out genetically where this population is from, and if farming giant kelp is feasible for the region.
Pollution
NCCOS scientist (retired) Dave Whitall collects oysters to support the NOAA Mussel Watch Program.
NCCOS scientists Dennis Apeti collects oysters to support the NOAA Mussel Watch Program.
Former NCCOS scientists collect oysters to support the NOAA Mussel Watch Program.
NCCOS and contracted scientists conduct National Mussel Watch Program surveys in Yakutat, AK.
NCCOS scientists and contractors participated in drysuite dive training off the pier at Cooperative Oxford Lab in Maryland.
NCCOS staff and contractors along with U.S. Coast Guard guardsmen deploy oyster spat on shell into the Tred Avon River as part of a major planting effort on the oyster reef.
Coastal Change
Protecting the USS North Carolina from rising seas includes establishing a fixed monitoring plot including marker horizon (the white powder that serves as a marker for current marsh surface elevation used to measure deposition/increase in surface elevation over time) and collection of a sediment core in the newly created wetland
NCCOS scientist prepares to conduct bathymetric survey with a kayak-mounted single beam sonar
General
Chum (dog) salmon running in a partially opened creek in Seldovia, AK. The Kasitsna Bay Laboratory plans to work with the town to remove a partially open dam to allow salmon to fully access the creek.
Staff with NOAA's Cooperative Oxford Lab seine at the Strand beach, the site of a new monitoring effort in partnership with the town of Oxford, MD.
Scientists from NOAA's Cooperative Oxford Lab collect oyster abundance and size frequency data in the Oxford Laboratory Oyster Sanctuary in collaboration with robotics researchers at the University of Maryland’s “Smart Sustainable Shellfish Aquaculture Management” team.
NCCOS staff and contractors along with U.S. Coast Guard guardsmen deploy oyster spat on shell into the Tred Avon River as part of a major planting effort on the oyster reef.