The Growing Threat to Coastal Salt Marshes Coastal salt marshes buffer shorelines, filter nutrients, and store carbon, but ...

As coastal communities face growing challenges from sea level rise and flooding, Pocomoke City, Maryland, is taking a proactive step toward long-term resilience planning. An NCCOS-funded ...

As of June 1, we switched to an enhanced true color product to better highlight water features. Click the next and previous arrows to view the most recent 8 usable ...

Forecasted bottom water temperature and dissolved oxygen up to 5 days, based on coupled bio-physical model simulations for Lake Erie. Please note, 10/7/26 is the last model run for the 2026 summer ...

These animations show the predicted Bottom Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen Transects from Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. to Port Stanley, Canada from 2026-10-08 up to 6 days. Points are realtime sensor ...

AIS data are collected by the U.S. Coast Guard through an onboard navigation safety device that transmits and monitors the location and characteristics of large vessels in U.S. waters in real time.

The NCCOS Competitive Research Program (CRP) funds regional-scale research through a competitive, peer-reviewed process to address our nation’s most pressing ocean and coastal issues. CRP is the ...

Users can identify and download water column sonar data, the acoustic backscatter from the near-surface to the seafloor, to ascertain physical and biological characteristics of the seafloor including ...

NOAA’s Benthic Data Hub lets you interactively view data, aerial imagery, dive photography, underwater video and related publications developed for the benthic habitat mapping of many U.S. coral reefs ...

Hypoxic zones are areas in the ocean of such low oxygen concentration that animal life suffocates and dies, and as a result are sometimes called “dead zones.” One of the largest dead zones forms in ...

Dune erosion, or scarping, caused by Hurricane Matthew along Shackleford Banks, North Carolina. Credit: Laura Moore. Beaches and sand dunes are critical to protecting coastal communities from storm ...

Sampling is underway as the University of Washington Tacoma, Washington Department of Health, and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife work to map overwintering harmful algal cysts in ...