During the week of February 27, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) researchers met with U.S. Coral Reef Task Force stakeholders to provide the status of NCCOS' collaborative research ...

ST. THOMAS - Scientists are working on a project in the St. Thomas East End Reserves to see how much sediment and pollution washes into the protected marine sanctuary. The ...

Last week, scientists from NCCOSreleased new habitat maps for Buck Island Reef National Monument (BIRNM) describing thegeology and biology of the seafloor from 0 to 1,830 meters (m) in depth ...

To provide new high resolution data for the nearshore waters of St. Thomas, St. John, andSt Croix, USVI, NCCOS scientists partneredwith NOAA's Office of Coastal Survey, Fugro LADS Corporation, and ...

Staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, along a transect in St. John USVI, July 2011. Quadrat in photograph is 1m x 1m, divided into 10cm2 squares Collaborating with local partners, scientists from ...

Predicting the loss and fragmentation of suitable habitat for an important coral reef herbivore, the princess parrotfish, under future scenarios of coral reef structural collapse. This work is in progress ...

Investigating mesophotic coral ecosystems in the waters surrounding the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) is the purpose of a National Centers for Coastal Ocean ...

The NOAA Ship Nancy Foster was visited by some high-profile guests including Congresswoman Donna Christensen and several local senators during a seminar hosted by NCCOS. See April 8 mission log ...