NOAA researcher Paula Whitfield uses underwater video and still frames to demonstrate to local middle school students the different types of hardbottom reefs in North Carolina's offshore waters. Credit: William ...

A NOAA diver surveys the fish community of natural hardbottom habitat in a proposed wind energy call area off of Cape Fear. Credit: Emily Pickering. Earlier this month, NCCOS researchers ...

A team of NOAA and academic researchers led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has issued a seasonal red tide forecast for the Gulf of Maine as part of ...

NOAA scientists teamed up with soldiers from the U.S. Army Reserve to conduct research off the North Carolina coast. The research was conducted aboard the Army vessel Missionary Ridge, a ...

Notes from the scientific expedition team currently aboard the NOAA ShipNancy Foster (March 15 -April 3): ROVing the Depths of the Caribbean Sea by Leslie Marie Henderson, Guest Blogger from ...

That's a winner: a photograph of an Oyster Toadfish taken at the Shackleford Jetty near Beaufort, N.C., by NCCOS researcher Amy Uhrin. A photograph taken by NCCOS research ecologist Amy ...

The NCCOS Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research is located on Pivers Island in the middle of the second largest sound system in the U.S. and due west of ...

A team of scientists from NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) and partner organizations has set sail for a three-week (March 15 -April 3) expedition aboard theNOAA ShipNancy ...

Predicting future patterns of coastal inundation from sea level rise requires knowledge of changes in sea level and changes in elevation of land surface. Surface elevation tables - mechanical devices ...

A recent episode of Aqua Kids, a children's television show that reaches over 90 million households, visited NCCOS's Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research in Beaufort, N.C., to learn ...