The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science helped establish one of the few labs in the country that can analyze samples for the full spectrum of toxins produced by cyanobacterial ...

Brown tide, a harmful algal species that annually plagues mid-Atlantic shellfisheries, owes its success to genes that help it thrive in shallow, nutrient-enriched estuaries, according to new findings from a ...

National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science-sponsored scientists have discovered that the common bloom-forming, freshwater harmful alga, Microcystis, produces estrogen-like substances that can alter sex hormones in fish, potentially causing feminization ...

Monitoring the well-being of communities that depend on our oceans and coasts can indicate whether environmental conditions are enhancing or degrading quality of life for coastal residents. In the case ...

Wildlife forensics experts from NOAA, the Society for Wildlife Forensic Sciences, and other organizations convened last week at NOAA's Marine Forensics Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina, for the inaugural meeting ...

Participating in the 2011 Aquatic Sciences Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico (February 13 -18, 2011), NCCOS leads two special sessions, sponsors an additional seven special sessions plus a workshop ...

Increasing use of ecological models for management and policy requires robust evaluation of model precision, accuracy, and sensitivity to ecosystem change. For coastal hypoxia, models are used to explore the ...

Wildlife forensics experts from NOAA, the Society for Wildlife Forensic Sciences, and other organizations convened last week at NOAA's Marine Forensics Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina, for the inaugural meeting ...

On February 15-16, wildlife forensics experts from NOAA, the Society for Wildlife Forensic Sciences, and other agencies will convene in Charleston, South Carolina for the inaugural meeting of the Scientific ...

Guided by NOAA scientists, officials from Louisiana and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are convening the nation's leading marsh restoration experts on February 23, 2011 to evaluate the merits ...