National marine sanctuaries protect America's most iconic natural and cultural marine resources. To assess the effectiveness of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) at protecting habitat for key ...

Los Angeles Flood Risk - distribution of predominant race/ethnicity (left) and flood depth (right). Six weeks after the scientific study Large and inequitable flood risks in Los Angeles, California was ...

San Elijo Lagoon, in San Diego County. Credit: Carey Nagoda. Many coastal states throughout the U.S. have observed negative impacts in marine and estuarine environments due to cyanobacteria toxins (cyanotoxins) ...

NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science provided a harmful algal bloom (HAB) Event Response award of $4,520 to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS), ...

The NCCOS Competitive Research Program is pleased to announce a Fiscal Year 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for its Coastal Hypoxia Research Program. This funding opportunity seeks to improve ...

A NOAA partnership with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) received a U.S. Department of Transportation FHWA Environmental Excellence Award, which recognizes outstanding transportation projects, processes, and organizations that incorporate environmental ...

Harmful algal bloom in Western Basin of Lake Erie. Credit: Aerial Associates Photography, Inc. by Zachary Haslick. A new model from NCCOS-funded researchers describes the cellular mechanisms driving toxin production ...

From October 2017 to January 2019, a significant red tide limited access to marine and coastal areas in Florida, heavily impacting tourism. The “2018 red tide," as it is commonly ...

Spring in the Bering Strait; several miles offshore, south of the community of Wales, Alaska. Credit: Gay Sheffield, University of Alaska Fairbanks/Alaska Sea Grant. The NCCOS Ecology & Oceanography of ...

NCCOS-supported researchers investigating the effects of hypoxia (low oxygen) on threatened coral species discovered that some species have surprisingly high tolerance to declining ocean oxygen levels. While investigating staghorn coral ...