NCCOS scientist, Dr. Carolyn Currin, North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve Education Coordinator, Lori Davis, and North Carolina Sea Grant Marine Education Specialist, Teri Kerby Hathaway, are bringing the successful ...

Researchers from the Institut Louis Malardè (ILM) in French Polynesia visited the NCCOS Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) to gain expertise on working with Harmful Algal Bloom ...

For over ten years NCCOS has developed and improved hypoxia (dead zone) forecasts similar to seasonal weather forecasts. The accuracy of these forecasts is proving to be quite good. Professor ...

Outlook incorporates multiple hypoxia models for first time Scientists are expecting that this year's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone, also called the 'dead zone,' will be approximately 5,483 square miles ...

NCCOS staffrecently trained partners in field operations and fish and coral data collection for theNational Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP), a core component of NOAA's Coral ReefConservation Program. Approximately seventy ...

Tracy Skrabal, of North Carolina Coastal Federation, instructs workshop participants in the use of the dibbler for planting Spartina alterniflora at a Living Shoreline site on Pivers Island. Credit: North ...

NOAA, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and North Carolina State University just issueda moderate forecast for this year's red tide inthe Gulf of Maine, similar to the past three ...

Poster session and attendees at 2015 annual meeting of Carolinas Chapter of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Raleigh, N.C. Scientists from NCCOS's Center for Coastal Environmental Health and ...

Lionfish are native to the Indo-Pacific, but are now established along the southeast coast of the U.S., the Caribbean, and in parts of the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NOAA. The ...

NCCOS researchers applied an alternative method to improve classifying and calculatingthe extent of shallow seagrass ecosystems using digital aerial photographs in a recent study. The technique, linear spectral unmixing, is ...