TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Officials in Michigan and Ohio promised closer cooperation Wednesday in the quest for solutions to massive algae blooms in Lake Erie, a deadly threat to ...

Representatives from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science met withthe Federal-State Areas of Concern Coordinating Committee (FEDSTACC), a group of regionalstakeholders from across the Great Lakes basin, to discuss ...

EPA Region 5 in Chicago recently hosted the second meeting on "effects-based" monitoring in theGreat Lakes and scientists from NCCOS' Mussel Watch Program attended. Scientists have longrecognized that chemical contaminant ...

In a first-ever collaboration, findings from NCCOS's long-term research into the causes and consequences of the Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" were included in the National Weather Service annual spring ...

Research conducted by scientists at the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science's (NCCOS) will be published as a chapter in, Quagga and Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Control, Second Edition, ...

In a recent publication in Microbial Ecology, research funded by NCCOS illuminates the role of organic phosphorus in causing blooms of the toxic Microcystis aeruginosa. Toxic cyanobacteria (once called blue-green ...

The January 2012 issue of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)'sHarmful Algae News No. 45 featuredNCCOS harmful algal bloom forecasts--both under development and operational. The article, 'Harmful Algal Bloom Operational ...

It was October 31, 1987 - HalloweenDay in the U.S. It seemed to be an otherwise ordinary day, but people on the beaches near Beaufort, North Carolina,were experiencing out of ...

NOAA has awarded a team of scientists $182,982 for the first year of an anticipated four-year $703,777 project for research that could lead to an instrument, called a biofilter, that ...

Accurate determination of runoff into the Great Lakes is important for managing and controlling the low oxygen conditions (hypoxia) and harmful algal blooms (HABs). Scientists supported through NCCOS have tested ...