Two Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' forecasts released Thursday could hardly be more staggeringly different. The wide range of the dead zone's size in the forecases is due to scientists' ...

In a new paper, researchers funded by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science discovered that the New England red tide species called Alexandrium releases a variety of compounds to ...

2012 Gulf Hypoxia in Brief Forecast:1,197 to 6,213 square miles Results of preliminary June survey cruise find area to be 295 mi2 August 1: Results of mid-summer survey cruise NOAA ...

Practical Methods for Conducting Threat Assessments for Reef Managers workshop attendees. Resource managers are faced with environmental changes that threaten the health and vitality of coral reef ecosystems as a ...

Due to blooms of the type of algae Alexandrium that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning, mussel oyster and clam harvesting was recently shut down along some sections of the Maine coast ...

College of Charleston Master's student, Sarah Baxter, under the direction of a scientist from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Dr.Leslie Hart, was one of two students recently awarded ...

From June 19-23, researchers from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science will lead a research cruise in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico ...

On May 21, a researcher from NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) presented recent findings at the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Nearshore and Nonpoint Source Work Group, led ...

Take three minutes out of your day to watch this amazing virtual 'fly-through' of deep-sea areas within NOAA's Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary in California. (3:28 minutes) Visualizations ...

A new mapping tool has given scientists a first glimpse of an area of the seafloor just west of the San Francisco Bay and, thanks to a new animation, ordinary ...