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A Management Tool to Reduce Sea Turtle Bycatch in ...

Along with our partners, we developed a geographic information system (GIS) tool to help coastal managers work toward reducing the bycatch of sea turtles in U.S. fisheries in the Atlantic ...
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Habitat Mapping, Marine Spatial Ecology, Protected Species, Alabama, Atlantic Ocean, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, Waterbodies, john.christensen@noaa.gov, ken.buja@noaa.gov

An Assessment of Fisheries Species to Inform Time-...

Environmental windows or moratoria are used by federal and state regulators in resource management to temporarily reduce adverse environmental impacts associated with coastal development. Seasonal restrictions on construction activities can ...
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Coastal Aquaculture Siting and Sustainability, Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments, Habitat Mapping, Marine Spatial Ecology, Regional Ecosystem Science, North Carolina, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, ken.riley@noaa.gov, lisa.wickliffe@noaa.gov

Assessing Social Values Relative to Offshore Wind ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM’s) Office of Renewable Energy Programs oversees development of offshore renewable energy projects on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). BOEM identified wind energy areas ...
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Assessing Human Use, Marine Spatial Ecology, Social Science, Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, chris.ellis@noaa.gov, sarah.gonyo@noaa.gov, theresa.goedeke@noaa.gov

Azaspiracid: An Emerging Algal Toxin

Azaspiracids are a group of toxins first reported in the 1990s in Western European waters and are now reported to occur along both the East and West coasts of North ...
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Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Canada, Foreign Countries, Ireland, Michigan, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Washington, greg.doucette@noaa.gov

Bioeffects Program Reports: South Atlantic Region

The Bioeffects program is a nationwide program of environmental assessment designed to describe the current status of environmental quality in our nation's estuarine and coastal areas. Field studies examine the ...
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Biological Effects of Contaminants and Nutrients, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, ian.hartwell@noaa.gov

Climate Change Impacts on Intertidal Zone Populati...

The intertidal zone, which lies between the high and low tide marks on the shores of the world’s oceans, is a sensitive indicator of the effects of climate variability and ...
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Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Alaska, California, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, Washington, elizabeth.turner@noaa.gov

Coastal Ecological Assessments and Indicator Devel...

We work in partnership with other federal agencies and coastal states to conduct assessments of ecological condition and potential stressor impacts throughout our nation’s estuaries, coastal-ocean waters, and NOAA protected ...
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Coastal Change, Marine Spatial Ecology, Alabama, Alaska, Atlantic Ocean, California, Chesapeake Bay, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, jeff.guyon@noaa.gov

Comparative Analysis of Quantitative Detection Met...

We are providing a thorough comparison of two different genetic methods used to quickly count the number of harmful algae present in a water sample. Our results will improve harmful ...
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Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Delaware, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, marc.suddleson@noaa.gov

Defining Protocols for Replanting as an Oil Spill ...

We are trying to determine the best approach to replant a saltmarsh with native grasses after it has been heavily coated with fuel oil. Highly productive saltmarsh ecosystems (or estuaries) ...
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Oil Spill, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, paul.pennington@noaa.gov

EcoGIS: Tools for Ecosystem-based Fisheries Manage...

The EcoGIS project was launched to determine how geographic information systems (GIS) technology, marine data, and custom analysis tools could be leveraged to promote fishery management strategies based on the ...
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Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments, Habitat Mapping, Marine Spatial Ecology, Atlantic Ocean, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, Waterbodies, john.christensen@noaa.gov

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NCCOS Provides Harmful Algal Bloom Training at Coa...

NCCOS’s Jen Maucher Fuquay leads the harmful algal bloom training at Coastal Carolina University, January 2023. Credit: NOAA. Last month, staff from NCCOS’s Phytoplankton Monitoring Network led a training at ...
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Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Water Quality, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, jennifer.maucher@noaa.gov

Successful Preliminary UAS Flights Collect Dolphin...

"Snotbot" drone flying close to the blow of a bottlenose dolphin. Collecting samples from the blow, or exhalations, of large whales using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), i.e. drones, is nothing ...
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Pathogens, Sensor Development, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Atlantic Ocean, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, wayne.mcfee@noaa.gov

Aerial Drone Guidelines for Marsh Monitoring Publi...

NCCOS researcher tests Uncrewed Aircraft System at Swan Island, in Chesapeake Bay, August 2021. Credit: NOAA. NCCOS and partners have published guidance on using aerial drones to detect changes in ...
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Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, Jenny.Davis@noaa.gov; Ryan.Giannelli@noaa.gov

NCCOS Awards $11 Million for Research to Enhance C...

Motorists crossing a flooded street in a low-lying Norfolk neighborhood called Colonial Place, which floods at every high tide. Credit: Chesapeake Bay Program/Will Parson NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean ...
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Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Other Topics, Sea Level Rise, Sponsored Research, Alabama, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, Washington, david.kidwell@noaa.gov, trevor.meckley@noaa.gov

Study Calculates Area Covered by Natural vs Artifi...

Figure 1: Underwater images of artificial reefs (A, B) and natural reefs (C, D) on the southeast US continental shelf. (A) Artificial reef created by a ship. (B) Artificial reef ...
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Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments, Marine Spatial Ecology, Atlantic Ocean, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, avery.paxton@noaa.gov

Optimal Survey Designs for Use of Uncrewed Aircraf...

An uncrewed aircraft system takes flight to capture aerial imagery of a coastal wetland. Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) are often used in scientific observations of land- and seascapes, taking photographs ...
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Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Restoration, Sea Level Rise, North Carolina, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, brandon.puckett@noaa.gov, jenny.davis@noaa.gov, ryan.giannelli@noaa.gov

US Offshore Wind Energy Planning May Not Be Engagi...

Public engagement is key to successful energy development endeavors because it builds trust and communication between local communities and government agencies that facilitate energy projects. However, new research from NCCOS ...
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Assessing Human Use, Other Topics, People and Infrastructure, Social Science, Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, chloe.fleming@noaa.gov

Effects of Sea Level Rise Program Awards $4.6 Mill...

Highway 12 along the Outer Banks of North Carolina after Hurricane Dorian. Credit: NCDOT. NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) is allocating more than $4.6 million in fiscal ...
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Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Funding, Natural and Nature-based Features, Other Topics, Sea Level Rise, Alabama, Atlantic Ocean, California, Chesapeake Bay, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pacific Ocean, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, Washington, Waterbodies, trevor.meckley@noaa.gov

NOAA Identifies Florida Pompano as Commercially Re...

A publication co-authored by scientists from NCCOS, NOAA Sea Grant, and four other institutions identifies the Florida pompano as a marine finfish species that will contribute to the expansion of ...
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Coastal Aquaculture Siting and Sustainability, Finfish Planning and Siting, Marine Spatial Ecology, Alabama, Atlantic Ocean, Florida, Georgia, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, ken.riley@noaa.gov

NOAA Charleston Planet Stewards Students Complete ...

Students at St. John’s High School in Charleston, South Carolina, have been working with a partnership of NCCOS staff at the Hollings Marine Lab and NOS Education on a new ...
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General, Internships, Other Topics, Outreach, Science Communication, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Water Quality, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, bruce.moravchik@noaa.gov, chloe.vandermolen@noaa.gov

Products

Maps, Tools & Applications

Benthic Habitat Mapping of Deep Corals in the U.S. South Atlantic to Conserve Vulnerable Fish Habitat and Ecosystems

Deep-sea corals provide important habitats for many marine species, including commercial fish. This data will be used to target areas for deep-sea coral surveys and to develop a predictive model to identify where deep-sea corals are likely to occur. The information will help coastal managers conserve these fragile ecosystems.
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Phytoplankton Monitoring Network

NCCOS runs the Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (PMN) to link volunteers who monitor for marine phytoplankton and HABs in cooperation with professional scientists. We build a more informed public while expanding the reach and resolution of HAB monitoring. Over 200 PMN volunteers sample 140+ sites in 17 states and the US Virgin Islands.
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Data & Publications

A pilot study to determine the movements of buoy line used in the crab pot fishery to assess bottlenose dolphin entanglement

A pilot study on the characteristics of crab pot buoy line movements to assess bottlenose dolphin entanglement was conducted from 19 September to 30 September 2005 in the Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina. The objectives of this study were to ...
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An Assessment of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Chesapeake Bay, MD and Charleston Harbor, SC

NOAA’s National Status and Trends (NS&T) Mussel Watch Program conducted regional pilot studies to assess the magnitude and distribution of contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) in shellfish and sediment from different coastal zones. In 2015, oyster and surficial sediment samples ...
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An Assessment of Fisheries Species to Inform Time-of-Year Restrictions for North Carolina and South Carolina

Environmental windows or moratoria are used by federal and state regulators in resource management to temporarily reduce adverse environmental impacts associated with coastal development. Moratoria are seasonal restrictions on construction activities to protect migrations of fish, sensitive life stages of ...
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An integrated assessment of habitat quality of national estuarine research reserves in the southeastern United States

Multiple indicators of water quality, sediment quality, and biological condition were used to assess the status of ecological condition of National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) sites in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia relative to a suite of corresponding ...
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Biological, chemical, and physical data from the Phytoplankton Monitoring Network from 13 Sep 2001 to 7 Mar 2013 (NODC Accession 0117942)

The Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (PMN) is a part of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS). The PMN was created as an outreach program to connect volunteers and professional scientists in the monitoring of marine phytoplankton and harmful algal ...
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Comparison of sandwich hybridization assay and quantitative PCR for the quantification of live and preserved cultures of Heterosigma akashiwo (Raphidophyceae)

In this study, we directly compared two molecular techniques, sandwich hybridization assay (SHA) and quantitative PCR (qPCR), for quantifying laboratory cultures of the ichthyotoxic raphidophyte Heterosigma akashiwo. To maximize comparisons, all experiments entailed raising H. akashiwo in the laboratory, generating ...
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Correlation and Prediction of Land-Based Pollution Impacts on Sediment Contaminant Concentrations within National Estuarine Research Reserves of the Southeastern US and Selected Chesapeake Bay Watersheds

OpenNSPECT is a raster-based GIS model that estimates runoff, pollution and erosion in a GIS setting. NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) has conducted a series of regional ecological assessments throughout many estuarine and coastal shelf areas of ...
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Cruise Report: Spring 2006 Survey of Ecological Conditions of the U.S. Middle Atlantic Bight, NOAA Ship Nancy Foster NF-06-06-NCCOS

This cruise report is a summary of a field survey conducted in coastal-ocean waters of the Mid-Atlantic Bight from Nags Head, North Carolina to Cape Cod, Massachusetts and from approximately 1 nautical mile (nm) of shore seaward to the shelf ...
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Cruise report: Spring 2007 survey of ecological conditions along the continental shelf off Florida from Anclote Key to West Palm Beach, NOAA ship Nancy Foster Cruise NF-07-08-NCCOS (May 15 - May 28, 2007)

This cruise report is a summary of a field survey conducted in coastal-ocean waters off Florida from Anclote Key to West Palm Beach and from approximately 1 nautical mile (nm) offshore seaward to the shelf break (100 m). The survey ...
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Drones in the Coastal Zone: Report of a Regional Workshop for the US Southeast and Caribbean

This report summarizes outcomes from a series of virtual workshops for researchers and managers in the southeast US and US Caribbean entitled Drones in the Coastal Zone ...
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NOAA Internship Opportunities

Environmental Chemistry: Developing Passive Sample...

NCCOS has started evaluating the use of silicone bands as passive samplers in marine and estuarine environments. These are a novel, inexpensive, sampling tool suitable for use by citizen scientists ...
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Internships, Research, South Carolina
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