According to a new multi-investigator study, with contributions from researchers funded by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science's Ecological Forecasting Program in Lake Erie, the record-breaking 2011 Lake Erie cyanobacteria ...

Yellow perch comprise Lake Erie's largest commercial fishery and second most important recreational fishery. We presented research results from the NCCOS ecological forecasting (EcoFore) Lake Erie project to the Lake ...

Teaching college undergraduates introductory biology includes helping students understand the relationships between genes, mutations, and the environment interacting together as biological evolution. A complete understanding of evolution requires knowledge that ...

An increasingly warm climate is worsening the problem of harmful Great Lakes algae blooms by boosting the intensity of spring rains that wash phosphorus into the waters, a scientist said ...

A session in Great Lakes Week 2012, an annual gathering of the diverse groups leading the fight to restore the Great Lakes, centers on a research project funded by NOAA's ...

Research supported by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) will provide the majority of scientific information incorporated into public meetings convened by the International Joint Commission (IJC) in ...

2012 Gulf Hypoxia in Brief Mid-summer forecast:1,197 to 6,213 square miles June survey result: 295 square miles Mid-summer survey result: 2,889 square miles Mid-Summer Survey Results Results of an annual mid-summer ...

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 ...

From July 16 -20, scientists from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science joined their counterparts from elsewhere in NOAA, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency and the state ...

Scientists from Louisiana and Michigan have wildly different predictions for the size of this year's 'dead zone' of low-oxygen water in the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasts released Thursday say it ...