The New York Department of Environmental Conservation recently hosted a meeting in Albany, NYthat brought together potential federal partners to discuss NY's Great Lakes current efforts and waysforward to remove ...

Representatives from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science met withthe Federal-State Areas of Concern Coordinating Committee (FEDSTACC), a group of regionalstakeholders from across the Great Lakes basin, to discuss ...

EPA Region 5 in Chicago recently hosted the second meeting on "effects-based" monitoring in theGreat Lakes and scientists from NCCOS' Mussel Watch Program attended. Scientists have longrecognized that chemical contaminant ...

On March 20, 2012, NOAA and New York's Department of State jointly announced the release of A BiogeographicAssessment of Seabirds, Deep Sea Corals and Ocean Habitats of the New York ...

Despite the long history of invasion by aquatic nuisance species to the Great Lakes, deciding which invasive species poses the biggest threat has proved to be a big challenge for ...

Fourteen divers were trained in basic and advanced scientific diving techniques at the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Kasitsna Bay Laboratory from 10-17 March 2012 in a class run ...

Alaska is often considered to be a pristine environment, but local and regional depletions of nearshore coastal shellfish and other invertebrate species are being observed in places like Kachemak Bay ...

The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science's (NCCOS) Kasitsna Bay Laboratory helped organize and participated in the 2012 Kachemak Bay Marine Science Conference, held on March 8-10, 2012 in Homer, ...

Research conducted by scientists at the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science's (NCCOS) will be published as a chapter in, Quagga and Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Control, Second Edition, ...

A quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay has been developed for the dominant HAB species that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning in Alaskan waters. This assay provides positive identification ofAlexandrium fundyenseand ...