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An Ecological Assessment to Support NOAA’s Choptan...

The Choptank watershed is an ecologically and economically valuable resource and designated Habitat Focus Area. We are collecting and synthesizing biological, chemical, and physical data to characterize the condition of ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments, Marine Spatial Ecology, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Chesapeake Bay, Choptank River, Maryland, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, dan.dorfman@noaa.gov, shawn.mclaughlin@noaa.gov, suzanne.bricker@noaa.gov

Assessing Coral Bleaching in Four U.S. Caribbean M...

In 2005, high sea temperatures caused coral bleaching in the Caribbean. The goals of this this project were to characterize the spatial extent of coral bleaching and recovery and to ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Coral, Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments, Marine Spatial Ecology, Puerto Rico, U.S. States and Territories, U.S. Virgin Islands, john.christensen@noaa.gov

Assessing Nature Based Solutions to Mitigate Flood...

This research project will connect the National Water Model with coastal models to predict the performance of nature based solutions for reducing the flooding impacts of sea level rise and ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Sea Level Rise, Alabama, Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, david.kidwell@noaa.gov, marykate.rogener@noaa.gov, trevor.meckley@noaa.gov

Assessment of Hurricane Impacts to Coral Reefs in ...

In 2017, major hurricanes impacted coral reefs in both Florida and Puerto Rico. We quantified these impacts using diver-based surveys, and our information was used to guide targeted emergency stabilization ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Marine Spatial Ecology, Natural and Nature-based Features, Regional Ecosystem Science, Restoration, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, shay.viehman@noaa.gov

Benthic Habitat Characterization and Climate Chang...

Cordell Bank, Greater Farallones and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuaries harbor diverse communities of deep-water fish, corals and sponges. Corals and sponges associated with groundfish habitat face many threats, including ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Habitat Mapping, Marine Spatial Ecology, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, California, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, peter.etnoyer@noaa.gov

Can Meadows of Underwater Grasses Help Mitigate th...

Ocean acidification (OA) in the natural environment co-occurs with other stressors, such as temperature and low oxygen, creating complex ecological interactions that are difficult to manage in restoration and aquaculture ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Ocean Acidification, Chesapeake Bay, Waterbodies, elizabeth.turner@noaa.gov, erica.ombres@noaa.gov

Can Oyster Aquaculture in the Chesapeake Bay Flour...

We are supporting research that will explore how the Eastern oyster will grow and survive under future environmental conditions and determine if there are environmental or economic thresholds (“tipping points”) ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Ocean Acidification, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, Waterbodies, elizabeth.turner@noaa.gov, erica.ombres@noaa.gov

Climate Change Impacts on Intertidal Zone Populati...

The intertidal zone, which lies between the high and low tide marks on the shores of the world’s oceans, is a sensitive indicator of the effects of climate variability and ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Alaska, California, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, Washington, elizabeth.turner@noaa.gov

Coastal Water Quality Monitoring and Tool Developm...

Effective management of shellfish harvest in the US relies on timely and accurate information about the shellfish habitat and the factors that impact it. In some areas, poor water quality ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, Gulf of Mexico, Waterbodies, andrew.leight@noaa.gov

Codevelopment of Modeling Tools to Manage Sediment...

We will advance scientific, engineering, and policy perspectives on how sediment can be managed in coastal lowlands to reduce flood risk, bank instability, and erosion risk. We will evaluate sediment ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, California, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, david.kidwell@noaa.gov

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New Research Improves Flood Modeling for Large Urb...

Coastal managers need accurate flood forecasts to protect communities from inundation. New research, funded in part by NCCOS, improves how levees are represented in flood models used to identify vulnerabilities ...

March 28, 2023 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Sea Level Rise, California, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, rebecca.atkins@noaa.gov, trevor.meckley@noaa.gov

New Study Examines the Role of Roots and Below Gro...

Dunes help protect communities from storms, and vegetation helps stabilize dunes by reducing wind and water erosion and by trapping and accumulating new sediment. While the importance of aboveground plant ...

January 24, 2023 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Sea Level Rise, North Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, trevor.meckley@noaa.gov

Cold Water Serves as a Barrier to Range Expansion ...

Krill serve as a main food source for marine mammals, seabirds, and several ecologically and commercially important fish species. Credit: Sophie Webb/NOAA NCCOS-supported researchers investigated the physiological tolerance of tropical ...

November 29, 2022 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Pacific Ocean, Waterbodies, kimberly.puglise@noaa.gov

Suitable Habitat for Pacific Halibut Predicted to ...

Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) in Glacier Bay, Alaska. Credit: National Park Service. A study by NCCOS-funded researchers predicts that under a business-as-usual carbon dioxide emissions scenario, suitable habitat for Pacific ...

November 15, 2022 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Alaska, Oregon, U.S. States and Territories, Washington, kimberly.puglise@noaa.gov

NOAA Awards $4.2 Million for Multi-Stressor Resear...

NOAA has awarded $967,505 of an anticipated four-year, $4.2 million project to support research on multi-stressor impacts on marine ecosystems under climate change. The newly funded project, led by Oregon ...

November 2, 2022 Biological Effects of Contaminants and Nutrients, Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments, Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Hypoxia, Marine Spatial Ecology, Ocean Acidification, Other Topics, Regional Ecosystem Science, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, California, Oregon, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Washington, Waterbodies, kimberly.puglise@noaa.gov

Vulnerability Assessment Research Published in Nat...

Hurricane Irma damage. Credit: Paul Brennan, Pixabay. NCCOS's recent article on its community vulnerability assessment framework, published in Natural Hazards, is also featured on PreventionWeb — a global, knowledge-sharing platform ...

October 19, 2022 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Sea Level Rise, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, Foreign Countries, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, chloe.fleming@noaa.gov, seann.regan@noaa.gov

NCCOS Awards $11 Million for Research to Enhance C...

Motorists crossing a flooded street in a low-lying Norfolk neighborhood called Colonial Place, which floods at every high tide. Credit: Chesapeake Bay Program/Will Parson NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean ...

Study Shows Newport Bay Marshes Can Keep Pace with...

Predicting future marsh conditions requires models that capture how both punctuated events and gradual physical and biological processes shape marshes. In Newport Bay, CA marshes can keep pace with sea ...

September 25, 2022 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Sea Level Rise, California, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, Elizabeth.Mcnamee@noaa.gov, trevor.meckley@noaa.gov

Model Quantifies Increased Flood Debris Risk in So...

Woolsey Fire smoke plume rises above California coast near Malibu, November 2018. Credit: U.S. Forest Service. Across the western United States, wildfires are striking with greater frequency and intensity, increasing ...

September 19, 2022 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, California, U.S. States and Territories, trevor.meckley@noaa.gov

Optimal Survey Designs for Use of Uncrewed Aircraf...

An uncrewed aircraft system takes flight to capture aerial imagery of a coastal wetland. Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) are often used in scientific observations of land- and seascapes, taking photographs ...

September 8, 2022 Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Restoration, Sea Level Rise, North Carolina, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, brandon.puckett@noaa.gov, jenny.davis@noaa.gov, ryan.giannelli@noaa.gov

Products

Maps, Tools & Applications

Choptank River Digital Atlas

This Data Explorer Map contains ecological and socioeconomic datasets including management boundaries, human use activities, fish and oyster surveys, and benthic habitats in the NOAA Choptank Habitat Focus Area (HFA) Ecosystem Assessment. The tool allows managers, stakeholders and the general public to visualize data that assists with decision-making about management of the ecosystem in the Choptank watershed.
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Regional Ecological Assessments

The NCCOS Regional Ecological Assessments (REA) website provides access to data contained in the Coastal Ecology Database, which were collected as part of a series of Regional Ecological Assessments conducted by NCCOS and partners throughout various estuarine, coastal, and continental shelf areas of the U.S.
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Data & Publications

A Decade of Water Level Changes along the New River Estuary in North Carolina, USA

From 2008-2018, our program evaluated coastal marsh resilience to changes in inundation along the New River Estuary in Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune (MCBCL) near Jacksonville, NC. To properly contextualize marsh parameters and processes across a range of tidal influence, ...

A guinea pig's tale: learning to review end-to-end marine ecosystem models for management applications

A shift towards ecosystem-based management in recent decades has led to new analytical tools such as end-to-end marine ecosystem models. End-to-end models are complex and typically simulate full ecosystems from oceanography to foodwebs and fisheries, operate on a spatial framework, ...

A quantitative genetic approach to assess the evolutionary potential of a coastal marine fish to ocean acidification

Assessing the potential of marine organisms to adapt genetically to increasing oceanic CO2 levels requires proxies such as heritability of fitness-related traits under ocean acidification (OA). We applied a quantitative genetic method to derive the first heritability estimate of survival ...

An Earth's Future Special Collection: Impacts of the coastal dynamics of sea level rise on low-gradient coastal landscapes

Rising sea level represents a significant threat to coastal communities and ecosystems, including altered habitats and increased vulnerability to coastal storms and recurrent inundation. This threat is exemplified in the northern Gulf of Mexico, where low topography, marshes, and a ...

An Integrated Assessment Model for Helping the United States Sea Scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) Fishery Plan Ahead for Ocean Acidification and Warming

Ocean acidification, the progressive change in ocean chemistry caused by uptake of atmospheric CO2, is likely to affect some marine resources negatively, including shellfish. The Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) supports one of the most economically important single-species commercial fisheries ...

Benthic Characterization of Deep-Water Habitat in the Newly Expanded Areas of Cordell Bank and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries

A large area of the seafloor off northern California lies within the US National Marine Sanctuary System, but very little of the habitat has been explored and even less is characterized using visual survey techniques, especially deep-water habitats. Benthic surveys ...

Biotic resistance, disturbance, and mode of colonization impact the invasion of a widespread, introduced wetland grass

Disturbance and biotic resistance are important factors driving plant invasions, but how these factors interact for plants with different modes of colonization (i.e., sexual and asexual) is unclear. We evaluated factors influencing the invasion of nonnative Phragmites australis, which has ...

Characterization of deep coral and sponge communities in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary: Rittenburg Bank, Cochrane Bank and the Farallon Escarpment

The purpose of the surveys was to groundtruth mapping data collected in 2011, and to characterize the seafloor biota, particularly corals and sponges, in order to support Essential Fish Habitat designations under Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) and other conservation and management ...

Characterization of the Mesophotic Benthic Habitat and Fish Assemblages from ROV Dives on Pulley Ridge and Tortugas during 2014 R/V Walton Smith Cruise

Three research cruises were conducted in 2012, 2013 and 2014 to the region of Pulley Ridge and Dry Tortugas to study and survey the mesophotic reef communities and fish populations. Pulley Ridge is the deepest known photosynthetic coral reef in ...

Choptank ecological assessment: digital atlas - baseline status report

The Choptank watershed was selected by NOAA as a Habitat Focus Area (HFA) for the Habitat Blueprint Program. As such, NOAA plans an integrated set of activities combining resources from multiple programs to leverage the full weight of its eff ...

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Climate Change

Changes in climate and an increase in extreme events can alter coastal ecosystems and the services those ecosystems provide to support our coastal communities and economy. NCCOS’s research efforts seek ...

Carbon Sequestration, Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change, Natural and Nature-based Features, Ocean Acidification, Restoration, Sea Level Rise, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems: Threats and Opportunities

NCCOS conducts multidisciplinary ecological research to assess and predict how environmental changes from climate variability affect the distributions of coastal habitats and species, as well as the functioning of coastal ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems, Coastal Change

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