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NCCOS Aids West Coast Partners Responding to Exten...
The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) is providing $88,000 in emergency funds to aid Washington State to respond to an unprecedented West Coast harmful algal bloom (HAB) event.The ...
Sailing and Sampling the FKNMS Aboard the Nancy Fo...
Erika Koontz sieves through a sediment sample for benthic infauna. Credit: NOAA. Hello from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster! My name is Erika Koontz and I am an undergraduate student at ...
NCCOS Trains Washington State Scientists in Improv...
NCCOS Biogeography scientist, Will Sautter, at the controls of an acoustic survey lab on the NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. Sautter provided demonstrations and technical expertise to Washington State Department ...
NCCOS and NMFS Partner to Survey 'Unprecedented' W...
NOAA Fisheries announced it has mobilized extra scientists to join a fisheries survey aboard the NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada charting an extensive harmful algal bloom (HAB) that spans much ...
Toxic Pseudo-nitzschia Bloom Reported in Alaska's ...
Volunteers with the NOAA's Phytoplankton Monitoring Network reported a bloom of the diatom, Pseudo-nitzschia occurring within NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve System at Kachemak Bay, AK. NOAA's Analytical Response Team ...
Harmful Algal Cyst Mapping in Washington Shows 10-...
An unprecedented bloom of the harmful alga Alexandrium occurred during Fall 2014 in Quilcene Bay, Hood Canal, Puget Sound, WA; the outbreak contaminated shellfish with potent biotoxins that can cause ...
Puget Sound Harmful Algal Blooms Linked to Seasona...
In order to predict blooms and prevent undue economic loss of commercial shellfish in Puget Sound, NCCOS has sponsored research investigating the seasonal patterns and mechanisms of bloom formation of ...
NCCOS, Partners Improve Aquaculture Siting and Pro...
NCCOS and partners areusing computer modeling to determine the carrying capacity for shellfish aquaculture - and the related potential fornutrient removal - in South Puget Sound. The team's methodologies and ...
The Craib Corer: Predicting Harmful Algal Blooms b...
Forecasting harmful algal blooms is a complex endeavor involving a wide range of oceanographic disciplines. NCCOS scientists and sponsored researchers count the number of harmful algal bloom (HAB) resting stages ...
Assessing Future Harmful Algal Bloom Risk for Wash...
In Puget Sound, the toxic algaAlexandrium catenellathreatens the health of people who eat shellfish contaminated with toxins it produces. An NCCOS Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB ) ...
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