The U.S. benefits from a wealth of resources and activities that depend on healthy coastal habitats. However, these habitats are being degraded by extensive hardening of shorelines due to climate-driven ...

On October 19, NCCOS scientist Dr. Teresa McTigue was awarded the University of Maryland's 2012 Distinguished Alumna Award by the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences's Department of Biology ...

This post was co-authored with Bob Diaz, a WRI partner and professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. This year's extreme weather events - a warm winter, even warmer ...

Ecological forecasts help resource managers better understand their management options, the likely effects of their decisions, and consequences of their actions. In the Chesapeake Bay, deep portions provide more habitats ...

The federal government is poised to auction to wind farm developers 2,434 square miles of the continental shelf in the Atlantic Ocean, which would allow wind farms to sprout 10 ...

A fire Monday morning (June 25, 2012) destroyed a 55-foot research vessel owned by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration undergoing repairs at the Cambridge Yacht Maintenance boatyard on Cambridge ...

The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science's Cooperative Oxford Laboratory (COL) recently conducted an open house in conjunction with the Town of Oxford's yearly Oxford Day event. The Cooperative Oxford ...

NOAA joined others and celebrated science at the USA Science and Engineering Festival on April 28 & 29, 2012. The festival was open to the public, free, and held in ...

With hopes fading fast for the crippled Earth-observing satellite Envisat, researchers are warning that delays to its replacements will leave Europe lacking vital monitoring data for years to come. Launched ...

On April 8, 2012, the European Space Agency lost contact with its main environmental monitoring satellite, a key data source for developmental harmful algal bloom forecasts in Lake Erie, the ...