By Ian Hartwell, Senior Scientist for Aquatic Toxicology, NOAA National Status and Trends Program. From left to right: in the front row, Ian Hartwell and Max Hoberg, and in the ...

A recent NCCOS-funded study found that shoreline hardening, particularly riprap, has a negative effect on the abundance of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV).Riprap, which is made up of rocks and boulders ...

MODIS satellite image of 2014 harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie, with high concentration near Toledo, Ohio. Credit: NOAA and NASA. By Kateland Kirk Harmful algal blooms (HABs) in lake ...

Distribution of bottom-water dissolved oxygen July 28-August 3, 2015 west of the Mississippi River delta. The black line indicates dissolved oxygen levels of less than two miligrams per liter. Credit: ...

NCCOS scientist, Tina Mikulski,completed critical calibration of the domoic acid (DA) toxin sensor on an Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) platform located at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) in Seattle, ...

To study the impacts of dispersed oil on estuarine organisms and ecosystems, NCCOS scientists used tidal estuarine simulation units (called mesocosms) to mimic the conditions in an estuary affectedby weathered ...

For over ten years NCCOS has developed and improved hypoxia (dead zone) forecasts similar to seasonal weather forecasts. The accuracy of these forecasts is proving to be quite good. Professor ...

NCCOS research was recently featured in a new book, Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions (2nd edition here), published by Environmental Systems Research Incorporated (ESRI). The NCCOS chapter, "Linking Landscape Condition Impacts ...

The NCCOS Phytoplankton Monitoring Network,established to monitor phytoplankton and harmful algal blooms (HABs), is partnering with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand into the Western Basin of Lake Erie ...

National Coral Reef Monitoring Program divers survey the reefs around St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Credit: NOAA NCCOSscientists, along with other federal and local partners, arediving on reefs ...