NCCOS scientists assisted with NOAA's Environmental Cooperative Science Center (ECSC) Center-wide Core Competency (CWCC) Short Course in Ocean Springs, MS, August 3-7, 2016. The goal of the ECSC's CWCC short ...

The 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting this past winter featured the research of NCCOS scientists and sponsored principal investigators. Topics included ocean acidification, hypoxia, blue carbon, and harmful algal blooms. NCCOS ...

As the invasive Asian Carp move up the Illinois River threatening the Great Lakes, managers and policy makers struggle with the question of what impact the invasive fish will have ...

By Eric Gulledge, Ph.D. candidate at Jackson State University A sunset view from the upper deck of the NOAA ship Bigelow in the Gulf of Maine. Credit: NOAA I am ...

This deteriorating sea fan Hypnogorgia pendula looks like a zombie from the deep, the gorgonian octocoral was located on mesophotic reefs situated below the oil slick of Deepwater Horizon for ...

Ecological studies show that bottom-up (e.g., nutrient input) and top-down (e.g., grazing/predation) pressuresmay change the structure of aquatic ecosystems with 'cascading' effectsthroughoutthe food chain. Recent research supportsthat zooplankton grazing in ...

The 5th Annual NOAA/Northern Gulf Institute Gulf Hypoxia Research Coordination Workshop (see "previous workshops - 2014") brought together Louisiana state officials, federal and other state agencies, NGOs, and academic scientists ...

A unique NCCOS sponsored study, recently published in Continental Shelf Research, examined the influence of sea level rise (SLR) on historic mainland and barrier island beaches and salt marshes of ...

In August, an NCCOS collection of community well-being data for the Gulf of Mexico went live on NOAA's Gulf Data Atlas. The Gulf of Mexico Coastal Community Well-being Data incorporates ...

Distribution of bottom-water dissolved oxygen July 28-August 3, 2015 west of the Mississippi River delta. The black line indicates dissolved oxygen levels of less than two miligrams per liter. Credit: ...