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Origin of Toxic Red Tides in Texas Identified
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New modelling research sponsored by NCCOS shows that Texas red tides originate in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico in the Bay of Campeche.. These ...
Identifying Origin and Mechanism of Texas Red Tide
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A study funded by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science has tentatively identified the source and control mechanism of red tides (Karenia ...
Texas Shellfish Harvest Area Viewer - NCCOS - National Centers for ...
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This interactive map viewer allows users to view current shellfish harvest restrictions along the Texas coastline. Aquaculture application: This map ...
Texas Alerted to Toxic Pseudo-nitzschia Bloom in Galveston Bay
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Volunteers with NOAA’s Phytoplankton Monitoring Network have reported a bloom of the diatom, Pseudo-nitzschia in Galveston Bay, Texas, and NOAA’s ...
Explaining Acidification and Nutrient Pollution in Texas Estuaries
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We are supporting research that will define relationships between estuarine acidification and other stressors (i.e., reduced freshwater inflow, low ...
Exceptionally high organic nitrogen concentrations in a semi-arid South ...
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Here we report results from an assessment of water quality conditions in Baffin Bay, Texas, a shallow (2 3 m) subtropical estuary located in a ...
Texas Coastal Hypoxia Linked to Brazos River Discharge as Revealed by ...
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Hypoxic conditions in the coastal waters off Texas (USA) were observed since the late 1970s, but little is known about the causes of stratification ...
Second 'Cytobot' Deployed in Texas Harmful Algae Early Warning Sensor ...
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NCCOS-funded investigators from Texas A&M University (TAMU) successfully deployed an Imaging Flow Cytobot (IFCB) on a pier near Freeport, Texas. This ...
Automated Sensor Provides Texas with Early Warning of HAB
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the Texas Department of State Health Services, and other interested managers received a two-week early ...
Influence of Major Storm Events on the Quantity and Composition of ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/influence-of-major-storm-events-on-the-quantity-and-composition-of-particulate-organic-matter-and-the-phytoplankton-community-in-a-subtropical-estuary-texas/
To evaluate the impact of varying freshwater discharge on POM quantity and composition and the phytoplankton community, monthly samples of surface ...
Processes controlling mid-water column oxygen minima over the Texas ...
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We investigate distributions of dissolved oxygen over the Texas-Louisiana shelf using spatially highly resolved observations in combination with a ...
Hurricane Harvey Water Quality Effects Documented for Three Texas ...
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NOAA NWS radar mosaic of Hurricane Harvey on 25 August 2017, DBZ = radar reflectivity factor of precipitation). Credit: NOAA NWS. An NCCOS-supported ...
Galveston Bay Closed to Oyster Harvesting After Scientists Detect Toxic ...
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FlowCytobot shown in the lab identifies phytoplankton cells from water sampled at the Port Aransas Pier (credit: Lisa Campbell, Texas A&M University) ...
Living with Sea Level Rise in the Texas Coastal Bend
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The Coastal Bend of Texas includes eleven coastal counties encompassing the Corpus Christi metropolitan area and is characterized by a system of ...
Development of a Siting Tool for Sustainable Oyster Aquaculture in Texas
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Oyster populations in Copano Bay, Texas, have declined to roughly one percent of historic populations, and the once thriving commercial oyster fishery ...
Mechanisms Controlling Hypoxia – Integrated Causal Modeling of the ...
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The dead zone of low oxygen in the northern Gulf of Mexico (nGOM) occurring from Texas to Louisiana is one of the most intractable environmental ...
Envisioning a Plankton Imaging Network to Address Gulf of Mexico ...
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Currently Texas agencies utilize IFCB-based HAB alerts to trigger more intensive bay monitoring that ensures shellfish are safe to eat and to ...
Multivariable statistical regression models of the areal extent of ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/multivariable-statistical-regression-models-of-the-areal-extent-of-hypoxia-over-the-texas-louisiana-continental-shelf/
Observations of the areal extent of seasonal hypoxia over the Texas Louisiana continental shelf from 1985 to 2010 are correlated with a variety of ...
Harmful Algae from Brown Tides in Texas Now Appearing in Florida Waters
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Previously such blooms had only occurred in the Texas estuaries of Laguna Madre and Baffin Bay where they persisted for decades and caused major ...
Dispersal of Mississippi and Atchafalaya Sediment on the Texas ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/dispersal-of-mississippi-and-atchafalaya-sediment-on-the-texas-louisiana-shelf-model-estimates-for-the-year-1993/
A three-dimensional coupled hydrodynamic-sediment transport model for the Texas Louisiana continental shelf was developed using the Regional Ocean ...