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Posted on December 11th, 2008 in General Information
What information would you want to have in hand before venturing out onto the Great Lakes? The answer, of course, is that it depends. Which lake? What time of day? What time of year? For how long? How far “out onto” the Lake? And in what kind of vessel? There’s another important part to the [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2007 in General Information
March 26-27, 2007 Bay St. Louis , Mississippi NOAA is convening a meeting in coordination with the Northern Gulf of Mexico Cooperative Institute in Stennis Space Center, Mississippi to assess the current state-of-knowledge of the Ecological Impacts of Hypoxia on Living Resources focusing on the application of science to coastal decision-making. The effectiveness of existing [...]
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Posted on December 13th, 2006 in Chemical Contaminants, General Information
Upon invitation, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) scientists recently briefed staff from the Heinz Center about a range of NCCOS data products, for use in development of the second State of the Nation’s Ecosystems report, scheduled for publication in 2007. The first State of the Nation’s Ecosystems was published in 2002, and was [...]
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Posted on December 13th, 2006 in General Information
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Sea Grant College Program, the National Ocean Service’s Communications and Education Division and NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program representatives recently met with staff from the U.S. Coast Guard Sea Partners Campaign to explore opportunities for increasing the effectiveness of coastal and ocean public outreach efforts. The Sea Partners [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2006 in General Information
Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) program researchers, sponsored in part by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), posted on the website of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center (a partner in the research) a forecast which predicts low returns of hatchery coho salmon in 2006 and spring Chinook salmon in 2007. The website provides [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2006 in General Information
NOAA has awarded the first year of funding for multi-year grants totaling $2,259,872 that will support research into the causes and impacts of the hypoxic zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico known as the Dead Zone. These projects are funded by NOAA’s Northern Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems and Hypoxia Assessment (NGOMEX) Program. “Mitigation of [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2006 in Biogeographic Assessment, General Information
NCCOS scientists recently teamed with the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary aboard the NOAA ship NANCY FOSTER to initiate the first component of a comprehensive biogeographic assessment. This work will provide critical information to sanctuary management in the form of spatially quantified data on the abundance and distribution of a number of resident taxa [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2006 in General Information
Ocean color data from satellites have been successfully used by scientists for measuring and monitoring water quality indicators. However, the accuracy of such measurements can be reduced in the presence of air pollution and dust, which are especially persistent along the U.S. Northeast. Scientists from the Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA) have developed [...]
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