Researchers have deployed five oceanographic moorings on the coastal shelf off of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, equipped with high-precision instrumentation to measure currents and waves. The data collected by the instruments ...

A new study describes the social-ecological system of La Parguera, Puerto Rico, and identifies the different pressures that have changed this system over the last 40 years. According to the ...

NCCOS researchers recently trained partners in Puerto Rico to collect fish and coral data for the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program, a core component of NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program ...

Scientists from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, the Office of Response and Restoration, and the Office of Coastal Resource Management recently met with local fishermen in Vieques, Puerto ...

Notes from the scientific expedition team currently aboard the NOAA ShipNancy Foster (March 15 -April 3): Spawning aggregations of reef fish in the Caribbean could be considered some of the ...

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 ...

Two story maps produced by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science highlighting how NCCOS science connects oceans, coasts, and people were featured in a recent blog post by Esri ...

A new study from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) reports recent sediment samples from Guánica Bay, Puerto Rico contained some of the highest concentrations of PCBs, chlordane, ...

In recognition of his contributions to NCCOS coral reef research,University of Puerto Rico scientist Dr. Francisco E. Pagán will have a new species of sediment-dwelling crustacean named in his honor ...

On Nov. 18, a Puerto Rico man pleaded guilty to a felony violation of the Lacey Act for selling meat and carapaces from threatened and endangered sea turtles in 2009 ...