This post was co-authored with Bob Diaz, a WRI partner and professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. This year's extreme weather events - a warm winter, even warmer ...

The manual is available as a free download. Cover art by Richard Powell (NOAA). Recognizing the urgency to develop clear guidance on reducing the burgeoning lionfish population, NOAA's National Centers ...

Nancy Rabalais, the Executive Director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium was recently awarded the MacArthur Award, for her dedicated, long-term efforts spanning multiple decades, documenting and mitigating the effects ...

Nancy Rabalais is a marine ecologist who is dedicated to documenting and mitigating the effects of hypoxic zones - aquatic areas with low dissolved oxygen levels commonly known as 'dead ...

On September 27, Nova Southeastern University officially opens a new research facility, the 86,000-square-foot Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems Science Research, which will host local, national, and international ...

A research paper published this week reveals that large die-offs of algae locally magnify ocean acidification. As the cells die and sinks to the bottom, the bacteria population that feeds ...

On August 29, researchers at the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) published an analysis of NOAA Mussel Watch Program contaminant monitoring data for mercury and methylmercury levels and ...

Lionfish removal efforts in some Mexican protected marine areas are controlling local populations, according to a collaborative study by NOAA and Mexico's National Commission of FederallyProtected Areas (known by its ...

An increasingly warm climate is worsening the problem of harmful Great Lakes algae blooms by boosting the intensity of spring rains that wash phosphorus into the waters, a scientist said ...

NOAA is actively participating in the 23rd meeting of the Mississippi River Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force in Des Moines, Iowa, September 11, 2012. The Task Force provides ...