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Tracking Fish Populations and Movements to Support Watershed ...
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We are studying the effect of watershed restoration on fish communities and their movements in mangrove estuaries in southwest Florida. Our goals are ...
A 2015 Assessment of Metals, Legacy Contaminants, and Contaminants of ...
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Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuarine system in the continental United States, with a watershed that covers over 64,000 square miles over parts of ...
Baseline Environmental Assessment off St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands to ...
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Watershed restoration projects are being conducted on St. John, USVI, to improve the health of coral reef ecosystems, create jobs, improve island ...
Baseline Assessment of Guanica Bay, Puerto Rico in Support of Watershed ...
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We completed a baseline assessment of the environmental conditions in Guanica Bay, Puerto Rico, to help coastal managers identify the most appropriate ...
Stormwater Runoff in Coastal Watersheds: Predicting Impacts of ...
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For modeling runoff from a two-year storm event (4.5 inches over a period of 24 hours), peak runoff rate is three to five times greater in the ...
An Assessment of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Chesapeake Bay, MD ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/an-assessment-of-contaminants-of-emerging-concern-in-chesapeake-bay-md-and-charleston-harbor-sc/
Overall occurrence and distribution of some CEC chemicals appeared to be associated with land use categories in the watershed adjacent to the survey ...
An Ecological Assessment to Support NOAA’s Choptank Complex Habitat ...
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The Choptank watershed is an ecologically and economically valuable resource and designated Habitat Focus Area. We are collecting and synthesizing ...
Baseline Assessment of Contaminants and Ecological Resources in Jobos ...
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The baseline assessment will be used to assess effectiveness of agricultural best management practices in the watershed. Why We Care Jobos Bay is ...
Land and Sea Characterization of St. Croix East End Marine Park
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Specifically, we examined watershed characteristics that can influence how much pollution and soil might runoff into nearshore waters with potential ...
Coral Watershed Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Assets
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Watershed runoff can adversely affect the health of coral reefs. Our work will provide coral reef managers with a method to monitor land-based runoff ...
Ecological Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Flood Protection and Blue ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/ecological-impacts-of-sea-level-rise-on-flood-protection-and-blue-carbon-capture-in-pacific-northwest-wetlands/
Restored wetlands can maintain and enhance these services throughout the region, especially in light of changing ocean and coastal watershed ...
Land Based Sources of Pollution in Faga’alu Bay, Tutuila, American ...
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The watershed has one likely primary source of LBSP stress (a rock quarry generating sediment runoff), but also has several minor potential pollution ...
NGOMEX - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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Northern Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems & Hypoxia Assessment (NGOMEX) Background The northern portion of the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, a region containing ...
Nutrient Crediting of Oyster Aquaculture in Chesapeake Bay
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Jurisdictions within the Chesapeake Bay watershed can now include harvested oyster tissue as a nutrient reduction BMP in their watershed ...
Land Use and Ecosystem Health: Decision-making Tools for Coastal ...
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The health of the Chesapeake Bay is directly linked to population growth and land use in the watershed. Since 1950, the population of the watershed ...
Linking Coral Reefs, Coastal Watersheds, and Human Communities in the ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/linking-coral-reefs-coastal-watersheds-human-communities-pacific-islands/
Our research project combines ecological studies, physical oceanographic research, and social science to reduce human impacts (e.g., runoff, sediment ...
Third Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force Report to Congress Published
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NOAA research has demonstrated that large nutrient reductions across the Mississippi River watershed will be necessary to decrease the zone to the ...
The Green Bay Saga: environmental change, scientific investigation, and ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/the-green-bay-saga-environmental-change-scientific-investigation-and-watershed-management/
The Green Bay watershed, draining a total area of approximately 40,468 km2, comprises about a third of the Lake Michigan drainage. In the early years ...
Reducing Runoff that fuels Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
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The Mississippi River Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force (“Hypoxia Task Force”) works to reduce and control hypoxia, or the dead zone, in ...
New Funding to Reduce Nutrient Pollution Reviewed at Gulf of Mexico ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/new-funding-to-reduce-nutrient-pollution-reviewed-at-gulf-of-mexico-hypoxia-task-force-annual-meeting/
The Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force held its 37th annual meeting in December to review ongoing actions to improve water quality in the Mississippi ...