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Sea-level Rise Planning Tools Highlighted at Annua...
NCCOS scientists gave an overview of NOAA’s Ecological Effects of Sea-Level Rise (EESLR) Program at this year's annual meeting of Alabama floodplain managers held in Orange Beach, Alabama. The overview ...
NCCOS, The Nature Conservancy Create Living Shorel...
NCCOS and The Nature Conservancy partnered to create a decision-support tool for North Carolina's coastal communities that identifies where shoreline conditions are suitable to ensure successful living shoreline projects. Living shorelines use native ...
NCCOS Helps Staff Marine Resources Center Open Hou...
Last Saturday, NCCOS staff from the Charleston, South Carolina, laboratories participated in the 2017 Marine Resources Center Open House at Fort Johnson hosted by the South Carolina Department of Natural ...
Nate in My Front Yard, Sea-level Rise in My Office
Cleanup continues on Dauphin Island, Alabama, following landfall of Hurricane Nate in the region last week. Many residents of the island are just now getting access to their homes after ...
Living in the Dark: Expedition in Search of Deep-s...
This past August, NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science led an 18-day expedition aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster to explore deep-sea coral ecosystems off the Southeast U.S. The research team ...
NCCOS Helps Ohio Respond to Unusual Harmful Algal ...
Sites samples along the Maumee River by BGSU, University of Toledo and Defiance College. Credit: NOAA Concerns regarding a large cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom (HAB) of Microcystis spp. and Planktothrix spp., ...
Mobile Rapid Pathogen Test for Leptospira in Calif...
California sea lions are at risk of the bacterial disease Leptospirosis, cased by Letrospira, which can lead to liver and kidney damage, and death. Credit: NOAA Leptospirosis, a bacterial disease ...
Researchers Develop Tool to Predict How Coast Reco...
Barrier islands and sand dunes have long been recognized as critical ecosystems that protect coastal areas from storms, while being home to many unique plants and animals. A team of ...
National Harmful Algal Bloom Observing Network Hol...
The National Harmful Algal Bloom Observing Network (NHABON) Working Group recently met to document current HAB observing capabilities and identify outstanding requirements or gaps in existing regional observing networks. During ...
Mapping Underwater Resources of Lake Michigan
NCCOS teamed up with the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory to collect 322 underwater videos off the coast of Wisconsin in Lake Michigan. The ...
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Weed Risk Assessment for Aquatic Plants: Modification of a New Zealand System for the United States
We tested the accuracy of an invasive aquatic plant risk assessment system in the United States that we modified from a system originally developed by New ZealandÂ’s Biosecurity Program. The US system is comprised of 38 questions that address biological, ...
WEMo (Wave Exposure Model): Formulation, Procedures and Validation
This report describes the working of National Centers for Coastal Ocean Service (NCCOS) Wave Exposure Model (WEMo) capable of predicting the exposure of a site in estuarine and closed water to local wind generated waves. WEMo works in two different ...
Why is Hawaii's ocean important? A Keiki Activity Book
An activity book designed to introduce elementary school children to the coral reef ecology and coastal ecology conservation of Hawaii ...
Wind-driven lateral circulation in a stratified estuary and its effects on the along-channel flow
In the stratified rotating estuary of Chesapeake Bay, the Ekman transport drives a counterclockwise lateral circulation under down?estuary winds and a clockwise lateral circulation under up?estuary winds (looking into estuary). The clockwise circulation is about twice as strong as the ...
Zooplankton community grazing impact on a bloom of Alexandrium fundyense in the Gulf of Maine
Shipboard grazing experiments were conducted in the Gulf of Maine and on Georges Bank during of June 2006 to estimate zooplankton community grazing impact on a natural bloom of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense. Surface seawater samples containing natural populations ...
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