Last fall the small Alaskan coastal village of Kivalina was inundated by a mysterious orange 'goo'(click for photo). Locals and others suspected a toxic algal bloom (see here for image), ...

The January 2012 issue of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)'sHarmful Algae News No. 45 featuredNCCOS harmful algal bloom forecasts--both under development and operational. The article, 'Harmful Algal Bloom Operational ...

A team of scientists and engineers met January 21-22 in Charleston, SC for a strategy session to implement an emerging sensor design for detecting algal biotoxins. The new platform uses ...

It was October 31, 1987 - HalloweenDay in the U.S. It seemed to be an otherwise ordinary day, but people on the beaches near Beaufort, North Carolina,were experiencing out of ...

In Fiscal Year 2011, the National Ocean Service's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) awarded nearly $5.8M to 14 new research projects under 6 different research programs. Projects were ...

Forecasting doesn't eliminate the need for shellfish resource managers to test and monitor toxicity, but it can help them do so more effectively, says WHOI senior scientist Dennis McGillicuddy, a ...

NOAA has awarded $125,614 for the first year of an anticipated $591,082, three-year project to New York scientists researching new methods of monitoring and predicting Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) caused ...

Scientists at the University of Maine have been awarded $201,187 for the first year of an anticipated three-year $574,028 project to investigate methods that would provide early warning detection of ...

Scientists are on the water off the New England coast this week gathering evidence to determine what caused an unusually large spike in Harbor seal deaths.The carcasses showed no signs ...

NOAA research grants totaling $1,665,056 announced today will lead to the implementation of seasonal and weekly toxic algal bloom forecasts improving accuracy and providing better early warnings for harmful algal ...