Two Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' forecasts released Thursday could hardly be more staggeringly different. The wide range of the dead zone's size in the forecases is due to scientists' ...

2012 Gulf Hypoxia in Brief Forecast:1,197 to 6,213 square miles Results of preliminary June survey cruise find area to be 295 mi2 August 1: Results of mid-summer survey cruise NOAA ...

Practical Methods for Conducting Threat Assessments for Reef Managers workshop attendees. Resource managers are faced with environmental changes that threaten the health and vitality of coral reef ecosystems as a ...

From June 19-23, researchers from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science will lead a research cruise in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico ...

On May 21, a researcher from NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) presented recent findings at the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Nearshore and Nonpoint Source Work Group, led ...

A new mapping tool has given scientists a first glimpse of an area of the seafloor just west of the San Francisco Bay and, thanks to a new animation, ordinary ...

When a floating dock the size of a boxcar washed up on a sandy beach in Oregon, beachcombers got excited because it was the largest piece of debris from last ...

On May 31, investigators funded by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science released the second annual map of Alexandrium catenella cysts in bottom sediments throughout Puget Sound in the state ...

NCCOS and Carleton University (CU) scientists joined forces to map potentially toxic fishing grounds in the Caribbean by tracking the movement of ciguatoxic fish over an extended period of time ...

On May 30-31, NOAA Mussel Watch program data, collected by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, was presented at 'Mercury in the Great Lakes,' a workshop organized by U.S ...