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 ...

In August, an NCCOS collection of community well-being data for the Gulf of Mexico went live on NOAA's Gulf Data Atlas. The Gulf of Mexico Coastal Community Well-being Data incorporates ...

Last week, a NOAA-funded investigation of the relatively healthy deep reefs of Pulley Ridge (off the southwest coast of Florida) began its fourth and final expedition. The industrious Red Grouper, ...

By Ian Hartwell, Senior Scientist for Aquatic Toxicology, NOAA National Status and Trends Program. The NOAA Ship Ron Brown continues on as the Bering Sea weather takes a stormy turn ...

New modelling research sponsored by NCCOS shows that Texas red tides originate in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico in the Bay of Campeche. These harmful algal blooms, caused by the ...