Websites, Tools and Desktop Applications
NCCOS works directly with managers, industry, regulators, and scientists to deliver
relevant, timely, and accurate scientific information and tools in various coastal
states.
Coral Disease and Health Consortium
The Coral Disease and Health Consortium is a network of field and laboratory scientists, coral reef managers, and
agency representatives devoted to understanding coral health and disease. It is
extensive, highly collaborative, and completely voluntary with over 150 partners.
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Ecological Assessment of Storm Impacts
The Ecological Assessment of Storm Impacts website includes a database of chemical and toxicological information on contaminants
permitted for use in the St. Johns River Watershed, Florida, and the lower Columbia
River watershed in Oregon and Washington.
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National Benthic Inventory
The National Benthic Inventory's Benthic Specimen Collection (NBSC) is an object-based scientific collection
focused on marine and estuarine benthic macroinvertebrates. The collection consists
of two main components: voucher specimens and sorted lots.
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Nutrient and Coliform Loading
The Nutrient and Coliform Loading website is a database of available fecal coliform bacteria,
fecal streptococci bacteria, and nutrient loading data. Loading for contaminants
other than fecal coliform bacteria and nutrients are included when values occurred
coincidentally within the same literature. The website can be used to quickly identify available measures of loading from different
landuses (bacteria and nutrients) and animals (bacteria only).
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Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
The Pharmaceuticals in the Environment website is designed to provide available information
for assessing risks to aquatic resources
from drugs entering waterways from both point and non-point sources. The website
includes information on frequently prescribed drugs as well as most antibiotics
and lipid-lowering drugs.
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Phytoplankton Monitoring Network
NCCOS runs the Phytoplankton
Monitoring Network (PMN) to link volunteers who monitor for marine phytoplankton
and HABs in cooperation with professional
scientists. We build a more informed public while expanding the reach and resolution
of HAB monitoring. Over 200
PMN volunteers sample 140+ sites in 17 states and the
US Virgin Islands.
Since the program began
in 2001, volunteers have reported more than 120 algal blooms and seven toxic events.
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Wave Exposure Model (WEMo)
NCCOS scientists have developed an easy-to-use numerical wave exposure model (WEMo) that
uses linear wave theory to calculate actual wave height and derived wave energy
while taking into consideration wind generation and local water depth characteristics
such as shoaling and dissipation from breaking waves. WEMo also provides predictions
of seafloor sediment movement.
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