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The NOAA NCEI Global Marine Microplastics Data Collection (1972-present)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Microplastics (i.e., plastics measuring less than 5mm) pollution is a growing problem affecting coastal communities, marine ecosystems, aquatic life, and human... -
Federal
RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Protecting Texas coastlines from potential oil spills in Galveston Bay using drone surveys and maps of a new response effectiveness index
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Galveston Bay and the surrounding Texas coast are vulnerable to marine oil spills, from both the high volume of marine commerce through the Galveston Bay ship channel... -
Federal
National Status and Trends: Mussel Watch Program
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Mussel Watch is the longest running continuous chemical contaminant monitoring program in U.S. coastal and Great Lakes waters and was created in response to concerns... -
Federal
RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Gulf-wide assessment of habitat use and habitat-specific production estimates of nekton in turtlegrass (Thalassia testudinum)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project assesses the use of turtlegrass by finfish and shellfish across the northern Gulf of America (formerly Gulf of Mexico) and evaluates the specific ways... -
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Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities: Mesophotic Fish and Coral Presence, Absence, and Density Data in the Northeast Gulf of Mexico from 2018-04-18 to 2020-08-04 (NCEI Accession 0276878)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Presence, absence and density information for fish and corals in the northeast Gulf of Mexico and the West Florida shelf. Data was collected from three different... -
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Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities: CTD sensor data collected from the R/V Point Sur in the Gulf of Mexico for the MDBC expedition PS-23-23 from 2023-05-17 to 2023-05-24. (NCEI Accession 0300759)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset contains files produced by CTD casts from the R/V Point Sur during MDBC expedition PS-23-23. The ship conducted fourteen CTD casts at multiple mesophotic... -
Federal
National Status and Trends: Bioeffects Program - Magnitude and Extent of Sediment Toxicity in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
A survey of the toxicity of sediments was performed by NOAA's National Status and Trends (NSandT) Program throughout the Hudson-Raritan Estuary. The objectives of the... -
Federal
NCCOS Long-term Monitoring Project: Regional Ecological Assessments and National Benthic Inventory
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) works in partnership with other federal agencies and coastal states to conduct assessments of ecological... -
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Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities: CTD sensor data collected from the R/V Point Sur in the Gulf of Mexico for the MDBC expedition PS-24-10 from 2023-10-09 to 2023-10-18 (NCEI Accession 0300757)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset contains CTD rosette sensor files collected from casts aboard R/V Point Sur during MDBC Cruise PS-24-10. The ship conducted CTD casts at multiple sites... -
Federal
NCCOS mapping: seafloor mapping products for Kachemak Bay, Cook Inlet, AK, from 2005-07-06 to 2017-07-19 (NCEI Accession 0209109)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset contains seafloor mapping data from hydrographic multibeam sonar surveys, a thematic benthic habitat map created from these multibeam sonar surveys, and... -
Federal
Organic chemical contaminants measured by PED (polyethylene device) passive water samplers deployed at Cocos Island, Guam from 2017-09-18 to 2017-10-30 (NCEI Accession 0184259)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The Cocos Island, Guam PEDs (polyethylene device) passive water sampler data set contains results of the analysis from Project 31181 funded by NOAAâs Coral Reef... -
Federal
RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP): Supporting Information (NCEI Accession 0224419)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP) uses a Monitoring Community of Practice, coordinated by the Gulf of Mexico Alliance, and a Monitoring... -
Federal
NCCOS Mapping: Bathymetric Lidar Waveform Metrics for Saipan, The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), 2019-07-11 to 2019-07-31 (NCEI Accession 0294340)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This data package contains bathymetric light detection and ranging (lidar) Hawkeye-4X waveforms metrics (LWFM) for 0 to 50 meter depths around the island of Saipan,... -
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NOAA RESTORE Science Program: Effects of nitrogen sources and plankton food-web dynamics on habitat quality for the larvae of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in the Gulf of Mexico - biogeochemistry, dissolved inorganic nutrient, mesozooplankton, phytoplankton, and bacteria data from 2017-05-10 to 2018-05-19
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset presents results from surface-tethered drifting sediment traps, zooplankton net tows, dissolved inorganic nutrient concentration analyses made on water... -
Federal
NOAA RESTORE Science Program: A Web-based Interactive Decision-Support Tool for Adaptation of Coastal Urban and Natural Ecosystems (ACUNE) in Southwest Florida: Episodic Water Level Monitoring from 2018-06-10 to 2020-01-10
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This collection includes in situ observations of water level collected at a high temporal resolution. Observations were collected at 28 sites along the Southwest... -
Federal
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef benthic communities in the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2019-06-08 to 2019-08-09 (NCEI Accession 0215460)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) assessed coral reef communities in St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) using two... -
Federal
Guam and CNMI Underwater Photomosaics
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This data package contains georeferenced underwater photomosaics for more than 600 sites in 0 to 50 meter depths around the islands of Guam and Saipan. The... -
Federal
RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Expansion of www.mymobilebay.com [now known as ARCOS] for coastal Alabama resource management
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project will improve and expand an observing network and website that provides accurate real-time weather and water quality data to Alabama environmental... -
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National Status and Trends: Bioeffects Assessment Program, Delaware Bay Summary Database (1997)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This study was based on the sediment quality triad (SQT) approach. A stratified probabilistic sampling design was utilized to characterize the Delaware Bay system in... -
Federal
NCCOS Project: Kachemak Bay Ecological Assessment
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
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 of Alaska....