What is Eutrophication?: Estuarine Water Quality as a Coastal Stress Indicator Estuarine water quality degraded by excessive nutrient inputs — what experts call eutrophication –is a key barometer of coastal environmental stress. In coming decades, the nation’s coasts are expected to experience increased environmental stress as a result of further development and population growth. Scientific [...]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts received a $556,352 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct research to determine the sources of red tides in northeast coastal waters. NOAA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The grant is from the Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms program, managed [...]
Texas State University, San Marcos, will develop the next generation of molecular indicators for monitoring of hypoxia and toxic chemicals in the nation
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded the University of Maine
The Louisiana State University Coastal Ecology Institute will lead a study of the impacts of natural and human stressors on the ecology of the Barataria estuary in the Gulf of Mexico under a $977,342 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The grant is part of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science’s multiple [...]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts will use an $113,859 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct research examining the economic impacts of harmful algal blooms in the Gulf of Maine and the value of bloom predictions. NOAA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The grant comes from the [...]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $153,388 grant to the University of Washington in Seattle and Tacoma, to fund research into how red tides are initiated in northwest coastal waters. NOAA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The grant is from the Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Bloom program, [...]
A $149,660 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund projects at University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute in Baltimore, Md., to study toxin production in fish-killing alga with the aim of better understanding the environmental circumstances that cause organisms to produce the toxins. The grant from NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science [...]