Reef habitat imagery captured with the ROV during the 2014 Nancy Foster mission. Credit: NOAA NCCOS is preparing toembark on its twelfth yearof an ongoing scientific research mission on board ...

Leading a special session on advances in hypoxia modelling, scientists from NCCOS contributed to the global mission of the 2015 Aquatic Sciences (ASLO) Meeting in Grenada, Spain which focused on ...

In an effort to design a water quality monitoring program for the Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative (SEFCRI) region, Florida's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) met with coastal county representatives ...

NCCOS researchers advanced the science of oils and dispersants with several presentations at last month's 2015 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference in Houston, Texas. The conference ...

A study funded in part by NCCOS has found that diel-cycling hypoxia - daily cycling of high to very low oxygen levels - in shallow coastal waters increases parasite infections ...

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 ) ...

Mussel Watch samples mussels and oysters from over 300 sites around the coastal U.S. and the Great Lakes. The site pictured here is at the base of the Statue of ...

NCCOS joined a recently approved project 'AquaSpace - Ecosystem Approach to making Space for Sustainable Aquaculture,' as part of the European Commission research topic 'Optimizing space availability for European Aquaculture.' ...

A recently released white paper assesses the status of several empirical and deterministic models capable of characterizing Gulf hypoxia, also known as the Gulf dead zone. ' Modeling Approaches for ...

An NCCOS-funded study has produced a detailed characterization of the deep (60–80 meters), mesophotic reefs and fish populations of Pulley Ridge, located off the southwest coast of Florida. While the ...