On September 27, Nova Southeastern University officially opens a new research facility, the 86,000-square-foot Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems Science Research, which will host local, national, and international coral specialists. Located at the University’s Oceanographic Center at John U. Lloyd Beach State Park in Dania Beach, Florida, it will be the largest research facility in the [...]
In a $50 million five-story brick and glass building in John U. Lloyd Beach State Park, researchers are taking the biomass of crustaceans to help study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, cultivating asexual staghorn coral and sequencing the genomes of sponges. The answers they discover will help preserve an ecological resource — coral [...]
As scientists continue to research ways in which the oceans are changing – and what these changes mean for fish populations, three new research projects will receive funding to examine the effects of ocean acidification on fisheries, and the coastal economies that depend upon them. Ocean acidification occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from [...]
During the week of April 26, researchers funded by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science deployed a sensor that detects cells of the species of algae responsible for toxic red tides in the Gulf of Maine. The device relays its data back to scientists on land to enable state agencies decide whether or not [...]
Despite the long history of invasion by aquatic nuisance species to the Great Lakes, deciding which invasive species poses the biggest threat has proved to be a big challenge for natural resource managers and policy makers. Tools to assess the risks of invasion to the Great Lakes have either been inadequate or non-existent, even for [...]
NCCOS-funded research into the ecosystem effects of climate change may improve management of the commercially important shellfish populations in a warming climate. Stone crabs (Menippe mercenaria), normally found only in South Atlantic estuaries, are moving northward into the mid-Atlantic due to warming temperatures. This pole-ward range shift is predicted to increase interactions between stone crabs [...]
On July 17-21, 2011, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science program managers and sponsored scientists hosted sessions on translating scientific results for use by decision makers at the 2011 Coastal Zone Conference in Chicago, Illinois. NCCOS’s strategy of sponsoring quality science useful to coastal managers was on display at three sessions: Integrated modeling of Great [...]
High Frequency Radar (HFR) can resolve ocean currents to a scale of 1 kilometer and extend out to approximately 150 kilometers offshore. In addition to oceanographic studies, HFR has proven useful to applications such as supporting oil spill response, search and rescue, fisheries, and coastal discharge assessment. Now, through the support of the Integrated Ocean [...]