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First Gulf of Alaska Harmful Algal Bloom Cyst Sampling Cruise Completed ...
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Throughout this project, feedback from coastal harvesters and shellfish farmers through KANA and Alaska Sea Grant will inform how our research can ...
Gulf of Alaska Archives - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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Credit: Julie Matweyou, Alaska Sea Grant NCCOS funded partners recently completed field work in Kodiak Alaska to continue advancing a coordinated ...
Ocean Acidification: Understanding Changing Chemistry in Alaska Coastal ...
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The Gulf of Alaska is at elevated risk because it is where cold, deep waters that are rich in nutrients, but also low in pH, are upwelled at the ...
Trophic Transfer and Effects of HAB Toxins in Alaskan Marine Food Webs
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Identify species composition and map cell densities of toxin-producing Pseudo-nitzschia and Alexandrium species (including Alexandrium cysts) via ...
Empowering Alaskan Communities to Monitor for Harmful Algal Blooms in ...
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Shellfish are a culturally important marine resource throughout coastal Alaska, and many communities harvest them for subsistence. However, with the ...
[PDF] WORKSHOP ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF MARINE AND FRESH WATER ...
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6 Proceedings of the Workshop on the Socio-economic Effects of Harmful Algal Blooms in the United States 1 The Co-Chairs are indebted to the members ...
Ecological Assessment for Kachemak Bay, Alaska: Science Tools to Inform ...
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Kachemak Bay, a microcosm representing all of the estuarine and coastal habitats found in the Gulf of Alaska, has shown signs of reduced environmental ...
Informing Adaptation Decisions for Alaska’s Salmon Fisheries
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We are integrating multiple areas of research on the impacts of ocean acidification (OA) and the influence of “tipping points” (i.e., regime shifts) ...
New Species of Marine Sponge Discovered in Gulf of Alaska
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NOAA scientists and their partners came across an unknown marine sponge last summer while conducting a survey of continental shelf features off the ...
NCCOS Project: Kachemak Bay Ecological Assessment
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Kachemak Bay, in Cook Inlet Alaska, is a rich, diverse marine ecosystem and contains all of the estuarine and coastal habitat types found in the Gulf ...
Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) Northeast Pacific
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In the Northeast Pacific Ocean, there is a close connection between the ecosystem dynamics in both of its major circulatory systems (gyres)—the ...
Biogeographic and Ecological Assessments - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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Kachemak Bay is a subarctic estuary in south/central Alaska that contains all of the estuarine and coastal habitats found in the Gulf of Alaska ...
Study Reviews Causes of Acidification in Large Estuaries
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It has two openings to the Pacific Gulf of Alaska: Hinchinbrook Entrance and Montague Strait. A surface water flow-through circulation pattern exists ...
NCCOS Supports Collection of Real-Time Harmful Algal Bloom Data in Alaska
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This funding will support the real-time IFCB detection of HAB species on four research cruises this summer in the Bering Strait region of Alaska. The ...
NOAA Awards $15.2M for Harmful Algal Bloom Research
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Additional funds will go to improve monitoring and detecting of HABs in California, Florida, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Maine; expansion and ...
Application of Quantitative Molecular Methods to Characterize Abundance ...
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This project supports development for two lab-based quantitative molecular methods for more rapid, accurate detection of Alexandrium catenella resting ...
National Mussel Watch Program - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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Since its inception in 1986, the National Mussel Watch Program has grown and evolved. We currently sample sediment and bivalves from a network of more ...
Working with State to Document First Occurrence of Harmful Karenia ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/nccos-collaborates-with-state-to-document-first-occurrence-of-harmful-microalgae-karenia-mikimotoi-in-alaska-waters/
Light micrograph of K. mikimotoi taken from a bloom sample.. Starting in late Sept. 2013, a bloom of the phytoplankton Karenia mikimotoi began ...
New Study Finds Growing Potential for Toxic Algal Blooms in Alaskan ...
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Satellite image of Bering Sea algal bloom. Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE. Changes in the northern ...
NOAA’s Mussel Watch Program Expands Coastal Contamination Monitoring
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The Gulf of Mexico assessment used Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) collected from 67 of the program’s historic monitoring sites and 35 new ...