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NCCOS funded partners recently completed field work in Kodiak Alaska to continue advancing a coordinated, multi-region MERHAB research project. This work is helping to establish
NCCOS scientists developed a new, effective method to ensure safe shellfish harvesting in Washington state, increasingly threatened by known and emerging algal bloom (HAB) toxins.
A recent NCCOS-supported study observed that urea inputs into Sarasota Bay, FL influenced phytoplankton community biodiversity by altering the dominant phytoplankton group. During the study
This project will establish a network that incorporates state monitoring partners and citizen scientists to show that the HABscope-based forecast system can provide robust, timely
Repeated marine heatwaves off the U.S. West Coast starting about 2013 fueled record harmful algal blooms that seeded a region off Northern California and Southern
There is some good news in the works for Florida and Texas residents, visitors, and businesses susceptible to near-annual blooms of red tide in the
We will estimate the economic benefits of the Pacific Northwest Harmful Algal Bloom Bulletin, using a methodology that quantifies the value of information. Why We
Alaska Natives rely on a variety of marine resources, including shellfish, as part of their traditional or subsistence diet. Shellfish are filter-feeders that can take
Working with colleagues at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), NCCOS scientists have calibrated and deployed NCCOS-developed domoic acid (DA) sensors on two Environmental Sample
The California Current System (CCS) is a highly productive region because of wind driven upwelling which supplies nutrients to the euphotic zone. Few studies have