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Quantifying the Benefits of Natural and Nature-bas...

We will analyze how marshes, submerged aquatic vegetation, and other natural features reduce wave energy and flood risks along Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coastal bays. Our findings will inform ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Sea Level Rise, Maryland, U.S. States and Territories, trevor.meckley@noaa.gov

RAPDALERT – Rapid Analysis of Pseudo-nitzschia and...

Through this pilot project in the coastal waters of Southern California, we demonstrated the effectiveness of adding emerging technologies to harmful algal bloom monitoring programs that focus on toxic blooms ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, California, U.S. States and Territories, marc.suddleson@noaa.gov

Rapid Detection of Harmful Algae

To provide coastal managers with the early warning needed to implement timely and effective mitigation strategies to reduce a harmful algal bloom’s negative impacts, we are producing rapid, easy-to-use kits ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Sensor Development, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Foreign Countries, South Korea, U.S. States and Territories, greg.doucette@noaa.gov

Rapid, Portable, Multiplexed Detection of Harmful ...

We are expanding algal toxin testing to include tests for saxitoxins and anatoxin-a. The new tool will give water managers and community-based monitoring networks the ability to rapidly quantify these ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, felix.martinez@noaa.gov

Recovery Horizon Projections for Ship Groundings o...

Ship groundings cause extensive physical destruction to coral reefs, and subsequent recovery can be complicated and prolonged. In this project, we specifically address how coral recruitment and survival interact with ...

Coral, Marine Spatial Ecology, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Puerto Rico, U.S. States and Territories, shay.viehman@noaa.gov

Reef Smart Collaboration: A Coral Reef Ecosystem E...

The Reef Smart Initiative is a series of strategic, community-based outreach events designed to increase awareness of NOAA’s coral reef ecosystem research and conservation success stories. The Reef Smart team ...

Coral, Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments, Marine Spatial Ecology, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, U.S. States and Territories, U.S. Virgin Islands, john.christensen@noaa.gov, theresa.goedeke@noaa.gov

Refining Ecosystem Model Inputs for Sea Level Rise...

We are enhancing a locally relevant marsh model with new field data on the impacts of sea level rise to allow coastal managers to evaluate the vulnerability and inform restoration ...

Coastal Change, Other Topics, Sea Level Rise, Sponsored Research, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, California, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, david.kidwell@noaa.gov

Research to Support Management of the Flower Garde...

We conducted an assessment of biological resources in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, to serve as the basis for future sanctuary management decisions. This baseline assessment will also ...

Coral, Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments, Marine Spatial Ecology, Gulf of Mexico, Texas, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, chris.taylor@noaa.gov, christine.addison@noaa.gov, laura.kracker@noaa.gov, randy.clark@noaa.gov

Resident Perceptions of Offshore Wind Energy Devel...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) oversees development of U.S. offshore renewable energy projects on submerged lands called the Outer Continental Shelf. BOEM has identified two areas on the ...

Marine Spatial Ecology, Offshore Wind, , Oregon, U.S. States and Territories, sarah.gonyo@noaa.gov, theresa.goedeke@noaa.gov

Resolving the Effects of Resource Availability, Pr...

Aureococcus anophagefferens causes brown tides that have severely impacted fisheries, seagrass beds, and aquaculture in mid-Atlantic US coastal waters for three decades. The recent sequencing of the Aureococcus genome, combined ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Atlantic Ocean, Long Island Sound, New York, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, quay.dortch@noaa.gov

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Marsh Food Web Research Informs Coastal Land Resto...

With funding from NOAA’s RESTORE Science Program, administered by NCCOS, researchers from Louisiana State University and six other universities are working to understand how Louisiana’s river diversion and marsh creation ...

October 1, 2020 Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Restoration, Sea Level Rise, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Louisiana, U.S. States and Territories, frank.parker@noaa.gov

NOAA Scientists Update South East Florida Coral Re...

On September 2nd, 2020, NOAA shared an overview of findings from a joint NOAA/Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) water quality assessment of the south Florida Reef Tract with the ...

September 30, 2020 Biological Effects of Contaminants and Nutrients, Coral, Marine Spatial Ecology, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Water Quality, Atlantic Ocean, Florida, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, dave.whitall@noaa.gov

Photographs of Stranded Dolphin with Lesions Empha...

Photographs of the flipper of a bottlenose dolphin stranded on Seabrook Island, South Carolina, show lesions likely to be that of the fungal disease commonly known as lobomycosis. Base of ...

September 30, 2020 Pathogens, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Atlantic Ocean, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, wayne.mcfee@noaa.gov

Regional Ecosystem Research Program Announces FY21...

The NCCOS Competitive Research Program, in cooperation with NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and National Marine Protected Areas Center, is pleased to announce its Fiscal Year 2021 Federal Funding ...

September 30, 2020 Funding, Marine Spatial Ecology, Other Topics, Regional Ecosystem Science, U.S. States and Territories, kimberly.puglise@noaa.gov

NCCOS Spatial Science Will Inform National Aquacul...

A presidential Executive Order signed in May 2020, Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth, establishes NOAA as the lead agency on aquaculture in federal waters, and calls for establishment ...

September 27, 2020 Coastal Aquaculture Siting and Sustainability, Finfish Planning and Siting, Marine Spatial Ecology, Shellfish/Algae Planning and Siting, Atlantic Ocean, California, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, meghan.balling@noaa.gov

NCCOS Helps Identify Global Opportunities for Shel...

High (green) to low (red) opportunity marine ecoregions for development of (A) shellfish aquaculture and (B) seaweed aquaculture based on the synthesis of all environmental, socioeconomic, and human health factors ...

September 25, 2020 Coastal Aquaculture Siting and Sustainability, Marine Spatial Ecology, Shellfish/Algae Planning and Siting, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, james.morris@noaa.gov

Effects of Sea Level Rise Program Awards $2.2 Mill...

NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) is allocating over $2.2M in Fiscal Year 2020 to fund coastal resilience research across the nation. Approximately $589K will cover the first ...

September 24, 2020 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Sea Level Rise, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Washington, Waterbodies, trevor.meckley@noaa.gov

OceanReports Tool Now Used in All Phases of Ocean ...

In this Gulf of Mexico example, the OceanReports tool shows data layers for ESA Critical Habitat Designations (red), ports (grey circle), shipping lanes (pink), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management oil ...

September 23, 2020 Coastal Aquaculture Siting and Sustainability, Marine Spatial Ecology, Shellfish/Algae Planning and Siting, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, james.morris@noaa.gov

NCCOS, USACE Collaborations Highlighted in New Eng...

Top: Aerial view of Swan Island in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, following placement of approximately 60,000 cubic yards of dredged sediment; placement completed in April 2019. Bottom: Taken in August 2020, ...

September 23, 2020 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Sea Level Rise, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, paula.whitfield@noaa.gov

2019 Puerto Rico Coral Reef Monitoring Data Now Av...

In support of the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP), NCCOS helps assess the status of U.S. coral reef resources. Puerto Rico fish and benthic community data collected by NCCOS ...

September 15, 2020 Coral, Marine Spatial Ecology, Puerto Rico, U.S. States and Territories, kimberly.edwards@noaa.gov

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Montastraea cavernosa corallite structure demonstrates distinct morphotypes across shallow and mesophotic depth zones in the Gulf of Mexico

This study assessed morphological variation of the depth-generalist coral Montastraea cavernosa across shallow and mesophotic coral ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) using thirteen corallite metrics. While corallite structure differed significantly across sites, we observed that mean corallite diameters ...

Movement of Juvenile Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) and Spot (Leistomus xanthurus) in Relation to Diel-cycling Hypoxia in an Estuarine Tributary: Assessment Using Acoustic Telemetry

Fish movement and the spatial and temporal dynamics of hypoxia determine hypoxia exposure and the effect of poor water quality on nursery habitat function. Although water quality criteria for dissolved oxygen (DO) are well defined, hypoxia exposure of juvenile estuary-dependent ...

Movements of reef fish across the boundary of the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument in Coral Bay, St. John, USVI

The Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument (VICRNM) was created to expand the protection of the marine ecosystems around St. John. Monument boundaries were not designed using ecological criteria, but were instead the result of historical land ownership and the ...

Multiple Stressors at the Land-Sea Interface: Cyanotoxins at the Land-Sea Interface in the Southern California Bight

Blooms of toxic cyanobacteria in freshwater ecosystems have received considerable attention in recent years, but their occurrence and potential importance at the land-sea interface has not been widely recognized. Here we present the results of a survey of discrete samples ...

Multivariable statistical regression models of the areal extent of hypoxia over the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf

Observations of the areal extent of seasonal hypoxia over the TexasLouisiana continental shelf from 1985 to 2010 are correlated with a variety of physical and biogeochemical forcing mechanisms. Significant correlation is found between hypoxic area and both nitrogen load (r2 ...

Mussel Site Description and Sampling Procedures for Washington State

National Status and Trends (NS&T) Mussel Watch Program provides status of and temporal trends of coastal contaminant conditions. Bivalve tissues are analyzed for a suite of about 500 legacy and emerging chemicals of concern. In addition, bivalve tissues are assessed ...

Mussel Watch sampling procedures and site descriptions for Oregon State

National Status and Trends (NS&T) Mussel Watch Program provides status of and temporal trends of coastal contaminant conditions. Bivalve tissues are analyzed for a suite of about 600 legacy and emerging chemicals of concern. In addition, bivalve tissues are assessed ...

N and P as ultimate and proximate limiting nutrients in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for hypoxia reduction strategies

The occurrence of hypoxia in coastal oceans is a long-standing and growing problem worldwide and is clearly linked to anthropogenic nutrient inputs. While the need for reducing anthropogenic nutrient loads is generally accepted, it is costly and thus requires scientifically ...

Narragansett Bay hypoxic event characteristics based on fixed-site monitoring network time series: Intermittency, geographic distribution, spatial synchronicity, and interannual variability

Low dissolved oxygen events were characterized in Narragansett Bay (NB), a moderate-size (370 km2) temperate estuary with a complex passage/embayment geometry, using time series from 2001 to 2006 at nine fixed-site monitoring stations. Metrics for event intensity and severity were ...

National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) long-term monitoring: Regional Ecological Assessments and National Benthic Inventory (NCEI Accession 0202842)

The NCCOS Regional Ecological Assessments (REA) and NOAA National Benthic Inventory (NBI) include observations of water quality, sediment quality, fish and shellfish tissue chemical contaminants, and benthic infaunal abundance obtained from studies conducted since 1991 by NOAA and partnering institutions ...

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