In 2001-2004, deepwater surveys in the Au’au Channel using the Pisces V submersible supported by the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) determined that >50% of all black coral colonies below 230 feet had snowflake coral overgrowth with most being completely smothered and dead
NOAA recently awarded six multi-year, interdisciplinary grants with anticipated funding of approximately $6.5 million over five years. These new grants are part of the Coastal Hypoxia Research Program (CHRP) that builds on NOAA’s long-term investment in understanding and predicting the causes and consequences of the large seasonal hypoxic zone over the Louisiana continental shelf. The [...]
Safety is front and center in all of NCCOS’s coastal science work. That’s the case not only in the white-collar business offices, but also
NOAA has awarded the University of Rhode Island $1.5 million to develop modeling tools to predict low oxygen levels in upper Narragansett Bay, R.I. This award is the first installment of a five-year, approximately $2.5 million grant. This ecosystem-scale project aims to characterize and predict the oxygen dynamics within Narragansett Bay through coordinated, multidisciplinary studies [...]
NOAA has awarded the University of Michigan $1.4 million to develop new approaches to improve management of excess nutrients and hypoxia within many estuarine systems across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The award is the first installment of a five-year, approximately $2.3 million grant. Hypoxia in aquatic systems occurs in waters where the dissolved oxygen [...]
NOAA today awarded East Carolina University more than $450,000 to develop of a geographic information systems (GIS) tool to predict ecosystem modification due to a rise in sea level in North Carolina. A rising sea level poses many threats to coastal cities, ports, and wetlands. An increase in sea level will provide a higher base [...]
NOAA has awarded the Virginia Institute of Marine Science more than $43,000 to study the impact of low oxygen levels on fish habitat quality in the coastal bays of Delaware. This award is the first installment of a three-year, approximately $135,314 grant. This project will support research to study how diel-cycling hypoxia
NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Environmental Protection Agency are co-sponsoring a symposium on April 25-27, 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana to evaluate the current scientific understanding of factors influencing hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico, and to assess the appropriateness of models used to guide management activities for reducing hypoxia in [...]