King tide flooding along the Morehead City, NC waterfront (9/27/15). Credit Neils Lundquist - North Carolina King Tides Project A NCCOS project to understand and predict changes in North Carolina ...

For the first time, NOAA and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will work together to conduct a survey of North Carolina and South Carolina residents on their support ...

Last month, the NOAA Beaufort Lab received twohigh level visitors: David Holst, the Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator of NOS, and Mary Erickson, the Director of NCCOS. The NOAA campus in ...

Scientists from NCCOS joined with national and international partners for one week of a five-week course to teach students about aquaculture during the Marine Conservation Summer Institute at the Duke ...

Aerial view of Pivers Island Living Shoreline, constructed from salt marsh plants and submerged oyster reef. The marsh was planted in 2000, and has successfully prevented erosion of the lawn ...

A new NOAA study,published in the journal Ecological Modeling,anticipates an increase in the incidence of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) in the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. Southeast Atlantic coast ...

A graduate student at University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, Leticia Contreras, recently completed a month-long stay at NOAA'sCenter for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research in Beaufort, NC. Contreras worked with ...

As part of the Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup last month, 18 participants from NOAA, North Carolina Coastal Reserve andNational Estuarine Research Reserve, and Duke University Marine Laboratory removed 157 ...

The North Carolina Seafood Festival worked with local marine scientists from NOAA, University of North Carolina's Institute of Marine Sciences (UNC-IMS), North Carolina State University (NCSU), and North Carolina Department ...

NCCOS awarded nearly $4.5 million in new research grants while maintaining sponsorship of 42 continuing projects during 2015 for a total of $8.2 million in funding for innovative research. All ...