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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 ...
The Growing Threat to Coastal Salt Marshes Coastal salt marshes buffer shorelines, filter nutrients, and store carbon, but ...
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 ...
Low dune profile with a diversity of grass and herbaceous species. A new study provides coastal managers with a clearer picture of why some dunes stand their ground during hurricanes while others wash ...
Accumulated sargassum along the shoreline at Candelero Beach, Palmas del Mar, Puerto Rico, undergoing decomposition. As it decomposes, the sargassum darkens in color and releases hydrogen sulfide, ...
A recent NOAA-funded study by researchers at the University of Florida’s Coastal & Oceanographic Engineering Program sheds light on the factors behind the devastating flooding caused by Hurricanes ...
In July 2025, unusual mortalities of marine mammals and seabirds in and around Kachemak Bay, Alaska coincided with high bloom levels of the potentially harmful phytoplankton Pseudo-nitzschia. This ...
NOAA-supported scientists announced today that this year’s Gulf “dead zone” — an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is approximately 4,402 square miles, the 15th smallest ...
This project began in June 2025 and will be completed in May 2028. Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cHABs) in Arctic estuaries are an emerging threat causing concerns for communities that rely on ...
This experimental map animation depicts the probability of encountering sea nettles in the selected Chesapeake Bay area. The abundance or density of sea nettles that you may encounter is not reflected ...
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