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Posted on September 27th, 2012 in Ecological Forecasts & Tools, Ecosystem Management, Restoration Support, Seagrasses
A recent assessment of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) monitoring programs revealed a global decline in the underwater plants’ abundance even though they are recognized worldwide for their many important ecological functions such as providing essential habitat for many commercially important species of fish, shellfish, and invertebrates. North Carolina has the third largest total area of SAV between Maine [...]
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Posted on September 7th, 2012 in Coastal Pollution, Ecosystem Management, Harmful Algal Blooms, Human Dimensions, Hypoxia & Eutrophication, International, Outreach, Restoration Support
A session in Great Lakes Week 2012, an annual gathering of the diverse groups leading the fight to restore the Great Lakes, centers on a research project funded by NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. Dr. Don Scavia, lead investigator of the project “Forecasting the Causes and Consequences of Lake Erie Hypoxia” will be a panelist [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2012 in Chemical Contaminants, Coastal Pollution, Human Health, Restoration Support
On August 10, 2012, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative awarded researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina, a partner institute of NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Hollings Marine Laboratory, one of 19 grants that support studies determining environmental effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. The university researchers [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2012 in Coastal Pollution, Hypoxia & Eutrophication, News Clips, Restoration Support
Drought in the Midwest contributed to what has been measured as the fourth smallest “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico since 1985, according to scientists with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This year’s dead zone measures about 2,889 square miles compared with a dead zone of 6,770 [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2012 in Chemical Contaminants, Coastal Pollution, Restoration Support
From July 16-20, scientists from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science joined their counterparts from elsewhere in NOAA, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Michigan to gather zebra mussel samples from a river undergoing extensive remediation to restore its recreational, commercial, and aesthetic benefits to the community of Manistique and [...]
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Posted on July 13th, 2012 in Coastal Pollution, Hypoxia & Eutrophication, News Clips, Restoration Support
The Missouri River stretches more than a quarter-mile from shore to shore here, its muddy water the color of coffee with a shot of cream. The river carved this valley hundreds of thousands of years ago, and in the 1830s, it deposited the German settlers who founded this city. Today, visitors who sip local wine [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2012 in Ecological Forecasts & Tools, Harmful Algal Blooms, Hypoxia & Eutrophication, Outreach, Restoration Support, Sea Level Rise
The importance of the Gulf of Mexico to the US economy is significant. The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science has invested over $66M in public funds for research into harmful algal blooms, nutrient over-enrichment contributions to hypoxia, ecological effects of sea level rise (EESLR), and coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico since 1990. [...]
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Posted on June 14th, 2012 in Coastal Pollution, Harmful Algal Blooms, Restoration Support
On May 21, a researcher from NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) presented recent findings at the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Nearshore and Nonpoint Source Work Group, led by EPA’s Great Lakes National Program Office. The work group seeks to further understand the link between phosphorus runoff with blooms of toxic and noxious [...]
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