Two autonomous underwater robots deployed in San Pedro Bay off southern California have detected the diatom Pseudo-nitzschiaand its potent neurotoxin domoic acid. This may signal the initiation of a harmful ...

Routine sampling of marine mussels from a University of California sentinel site at the Santa Cruz Wharf prompted the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to issue a health advisory ...

A new NCCOS study presents baseline information about the ecology and pollution stress in Coral and Fish Bays in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. The information will help support evaluations ...

By Maggie Broadwater, guest blogger from NOAA's Harmful Algal Bloom Analytical Response Team. A bottlenose dolphin calf in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NOAA. Animals living in coastal waters can ...

Notes from the scientific expedition team aboard the NOAA ShipNancy Foster (March 15 -April 3): How I Spent My Spring Break By Paul Quackenbush, Guest Blogger from Middlebury College Ayy ...

A new report by NCCOS-sponsored researchers shows that consumption of lionfish from the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) could lead to ciguatera fish poisoning. The research team analyzed ciguatera toxin levels ...

Notes from the scientific expedition team currently aboard the NOAA ShipNancy Foster (March 15 -April 3): ROVing the Depths of the Caribbean Sea by Leslie Marie Henderson, Guest Blogger from ...

A recent NCCOS-sponsored study conducted by the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science has found a hypoxia-induced shift in marine worm communities in Chesapeake Bay to ones made up ...

Invasive Asian carp have established themselves in many lakes and river systems in the upper mid-West. Once established, they have wreaked havoc on existing food chains. Some of these invasive ...

FWCC researcher Tom Matthews conducts a towed-diver survey over reef habitat in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Over 85,000 spiny lobster ghost traps and over 1 million non-fishing traps ...