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Center Overview
NCCOS' Center
for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research (CCEHBR) has laboratories
in Charleston, South Carolina and Oxford, Maryland. The Center conducts environmental
research and develops diagnostic tools to measure coastal ecosystem health.
Chemical, biomolecular, microbiological, ecological, toxicological and histological
methods are developed and used in both laboratory and field studies to describe,
evaluate, and predict the controlling factors and outcomes of natural and anthropogenic
influences in marine and estuarine habitats. Learn more »
Feature Story
How
do we know whether a particular concentration of a pesticide in an estuary may pose
risks to that ecosystem?
How do we know that a concentration over a period (e.g. six days) may pose little
or no risk?
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Stressors
Ecosystem changes are the result of natural events or human behavior. Center
research is directed to the following five categories of ecosystem stress: Pollution,
Extreme Events, Land and Resource Use, Climate Change, and Invasive Species. More
Ecosystems
CCEHBR
conducts its research in places that are important to
NOAA. These coastal designations are: Sanctuaries, Coral Reefs, Estuaries
(in general), National Estuarine Research Reserves or NERRS, and Coastal Oceans.
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