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 ...

NOAA’s National Mussel Watch Program monitors the status and spatial and temporal trends of chemical contaminants and biological stressors in the nation’s coastal waters. The Mussel Watch Program is ...

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 ...

showing location of algae bloom which may include algae besides K. brevis. Water samples from 10-02-2026 to 10-09-2026 detected red tide (caused by Karenia brevis) along the coast at levels that pose ...

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 ...

NOAA requires that environmental data collected or created under NOAA-funded grants or cooperative agreements be made discoverable by and accessible to the general public. Data must be made publicly ...

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 ...

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 ...

A severely toxic harmful algal bloom involving paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins in Washington’s Hood Canal has demonstrated the value of a shellfish toxin test. After more than a decade of ...

Red tide off Florida’s southwest coast during the 2017–2019 bloom. Credit: Mote Marine Laboratory’s Manatee Research Program. From October 2017 to January 2019, a large and prolonged red tide bloom, ...