NCCOS awarded nearly $4.5 million in new research grants while maintaining sponsorship of 42 continuing projects during 2015 for a total of $8.2 million in funding for innovative research. All ...

Results from a six-year NCCOS sponsored study on the impacts of different approaches to erosion control — seawalls, riprap, and "living shorelines" — on submerged aquatic plants, crabs, fish, ducks, ...

Staff from NCCOS andthe Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary have developed aninventory of existing spatial data sets depicting seafloor and habitats off the Southern California Bight to set priorities for ...

New research shows that different Caribbean species of Gambierdiscus — the microscopic marine algae most often associated with ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) — demonstrate different growth and attachment behaviors with ...

NCCOS hascreated a funding opportunity for Fiscal Year 2016 for researchersto assessthe ability of natural and nature-based coastal features to mitigate the effects of sea level rise and coastal inundation ...

A scientific study funded by NCCOS's ECOHAB program, shows phytoplankton community structure changing rapidly, often by the hour, as tropical cyclones pass by. A revolutionary sampling instrument, the Imaging FlowCytobot ...

A new predictive management tool addresses an issue that confronts Wisconsin resource managers, farmers, environmentalists and fish scientists - too many nutrients, mainly phosphorus, from the Lower Fox River washing ...

Technology developed with NCCOS funding is rapidly advancing harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring capabilities nationwide. These cutting edge detection tools are now commercially available and transitioning them to sustained management ...

Around mid-August, a bloom of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium monilatum appeared in lower Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries. It is unclear whether the bloom originated there or was carried there ...

By Ian Hartwell, Senior Scientist for Aquatic Toxicology, NOAA National Status and Trends Program. We continue to drill the sampling routine. Actually, there is little else to do. We have ...