On May 6, 2015, NOAA released the final version of the NOAA RESTORE Science Program plan. The plan establishes ten long-term research priorities that will guide how the program invests ...

A completed analysis from the 2014 expedition to Pulley Ridge based on remotely operated vehicle (ROV) observations revealed significant areas of new coral growth. The findings were compiled from a ...

A grant from the Ocean Reef Conservation Association (ORCA) to the Marine Resources Development Foundation enabled expansion of NOAA's Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (PMN) monitoring sites in the Florida Keys. The ...

Twenty-five years of NCCOS sponsored research shows that the offshore summer hypoxic (low-oxygen) 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico is strongly linked to nutrient loading from the Mississippi River ...

NOAA and partners are working to transition a harmful algal bloom (HAB) model forAlexandrium fundyensein the Gulf of Maine (GoM) into a NOAA operational forecast system (OFS), which would help ...

Coastal marsh elevation, a measurement used in models to predict impacts of sea level rise and periodic flooding from storm surge, is commonly determinedby remote sensing methods that have been ...

NOAA has partnered with NASA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Geological Survey to transform satellite data designed to probe ocean biology into information that will help protect ...

NOAA is hosting a series of regional webinars designed to initiate conversation between federal representatives and stakeholders on a number of topics related to harmful algal blooms (HABs) and hypoxia ...

Leading a special session on advances in hypoxia modelling, scientists from NCCOS contributed to the global mission of the 2015 Aquatic Sciences (ASLO) Meeting in Grenada, Spain which focused on ...

NCCOS researchers advanced the science of oils and dispersants with several presentations at last month's 2015 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference in Houston, Texas. The conference ...