An unprecedented West Coast harmful algal bloom (HAB) continues, hurting Pacific Coast marine wildlife and causing economic losses to commercial shell fishers from Alaska to California. NCCOS sponsored scientists are ...

By Ian Hartwell, Senior Scientist for Aquatic Toxicology, NOAA National Status and Trends Program. The NOAA Ship Ron Brown continues on as the Bering Sea weather takes a stormy turn ...

By Ian Hartwell, Senior Scientist for Aquatic Toxicology, NOAA National Status and Trends Program. From left to right: in the front row, Ian Hartwell and Max Hoberg, and in the ...

By Ian Hartwell, Senior Scientist for Aquatic Toxicology, NOAA National Status and Trends Program. The view flying in over Kodiak, Alaska. Credit: NOAA. Sixteen hours of flights is a loooong ...

The NCCOS Phytoplankton Monitoring Network,established to monitor phytoplankton and harmful algal blooms (HABs), is partnering with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand into the Western Basin of Lake Erie ...

On July 9, NOAA and its research partners, using an ensemble modeling approach, predict that the 2015 western Lake Erie harmful algal bloom season will be among the most severe ...

Organized by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, a Blue Ribbon Panel of scientists from state, federal, and academia met last week to assess environmental concerns with development of a ...

NOAA Fisheries announced it has mobilized extra scientists to join a fisheries survey aboard the NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada charting an extensive harmful algal bloom (HAB) that spans much ...

Volunteers with the NOAA's Phytoplankton Monitoring Network reported a bloom of the diatom, Pseudo-nitzschia occurring within NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve System at Kachemak Bay, AK. NOAA's Analytical Response Team ...

Recent findings from research conducted in Palau show that in order to manage reef fisheries, both good water quality and an intact biological community are needed. Their results show that ...