NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) provided a HAB Event Response award of $48,000 to the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska, Agdaagux Tribe of King Cove, Aleut Community of ...

NCCOS’s Phytoplankton Monitoring Network trained over 30 environmental tribal personnel from Southeast Alaska and Kodiak Island in toxic phytoplankton sampling and identification. The training took part during the 8th Annual ...

Karenia mikimotoi is a toxic dinoflagellate alga with a cosmopolitan distribution and is a commonly reported red tide species. Blooms of K. mikimotoi have caused large fish and benthic invertebrate ...

NCCOS-supported regional harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring programs span the United States and help build a global HAB monitoring and prediction system. A recent article in Frontiers in Marine Science ...

NCCOS and NOAA’s Arctic Program supported research that led to an important discovery in the Bering Strait and North Slope regions of Alaska that raises concerns for Arctic wildlife health ...

NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) is awarding over $1.5M in FY19 for research into the ability of natural coastal habitats and partially engineered or restored habitats to ...

NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) are pleased to announce support for 12 new and 22 continuing harmful algal bloom (HAB) research awards. The awards, totaling $10.2M, fund ...

Example of Kachemak Bay BIOMapper data, showing various benthic habitat characteristics. Credit: NOAA. The Kachemak Bay BIOMapper, launched this year, provides detailed geospatial information on marine benthic habitats in Alaska’s ...

NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science provided a Harmful Algal Bloom Event Response award of $15,000 to NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center Wildlife Algal-toxin Research and Response Network (WARRN-West) to ...

Predictive habitat modeling for an example deep-sea coral species along the U.S. West Coast. From left to right, locations of observed coral occurrences, predicted distribution of relative habitat suitability, and ...