Named for the color the microorganisms give seawater when stimulated by sunlight, red tides are common seasonal phenomena in coastal waters. "There are many different types of red tides depending ...
Read More

Colonies of Didemnum vexillum encrusting mussel cages. Okeover Inlet, Malaspina Peninsula, BC, 2003. Photo credit Gordon King (TSF). Dredging channels and cleaning boat hulls or fishing gear in or nearestablished ...
Read More

Bruce Keafer calls it a robot in a box. Roughly the size of a kitchen sink, it was lowered into the waters off Portsmouth, N.H., last week, where it will ...
Read More

During the week of April 26, researchers funded by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science deployed a sensor that detects cells of the species of algae responsible for toxic ...
Read More

A moderate "red tide" is expected in New England this spring and summer that could force the closing of shellfish beds, according to experts. A red tide is a type ...
Read More

Underwater acoustics for mapping the water column Underwater acoustics (ie. fisheries sonars) uses sound to detect and map the presence of fish and other organisms in the water column. An ...
Read More

In April, scientists from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science-funded Prevention, Control, and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms research project in the Gulf of Maine issued an outlook for ...
Read More

New England is expected to experience a 'moderate' regional 'red tide' this spring and summer, report NOAA-funded scientists working in the Gulf of Maine to study the toxic algae that ...
Read More

Scientists from a NOAA-funded project in the Gulf of Maine issued an outlook for a moderate season of toxic algae blooms known as "red tides" in the spring and summer of ...
Read More

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 ...
Read More