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Federal
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
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: 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 Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) long-term monitoring: Regional Ecological Assessments and National Benthic Inventory (NCEI Accession 0202842)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The NCCOS Regional Ecological Assessments (REA) and NOAA National Benthic Inventory (NBI) include observations of water quality, sediment quality, fish and shellfish... -
Federal
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef fish communities in the U.S. Virgin Islands
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Data provided in this dataset were collected around the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) as part of NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)-led missions in... -
Federal
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef fish communities in the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2017-06-12 to 2017-08-04 (NCEI Accession 0176080)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) assessed coral reef fish communities in St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) using the... -
Federal
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
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... -
Federal
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... -
Federal
NCCOS Assessment: Fish tracking data from East End Marine Park in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands from 2019-11-08 to 2022-09-27 (NCEI Accession 0290601)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset includes detections of fish tagged with Vemco/Innovasea acoustic transmitters in East End Marine Park (EEMP), St. Croix, US Virgin Islands from 2019... -
Federal
Bathymetry, acoustic backscatter, and LiDAR data collected in Long Island Sound for the Phase II Long Island Sound Seafloor Mapping Project (NCEI Accession 0167531)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset contains multibeam bathymetry, backscatter, and LiDAR bathymetry and reflectance. These GeoTIFFs represent water depth and acoustic intensity of the... -
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
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
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
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,... -
Federal
NCCOS Assessment: Assessment of Puerto Rico's coral reefs following Hurricanes Irma and Maria from 2017-09-16 to 2018-07-02 (NCEI Accession 0221189)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset contains coral colony level damage assessment data collected during both stratified random transect surveys and opportunistically selected roving diver... -
Federal
National Status and Trends: Mussel Watch Program - Resurrection Bay Database
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
In response to the growing concerns among Native communities about the safety of subsistence shellfish, this project assessed the health risks associated with... -
Federal
NCCOS Sponsored Research Project: Understanding Coral Ecosystem Connectivity in the Gulf of Mexico from Pulley Ridge to the Florida Keys
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project investigated the role that the mesophotic coral ecosystems (~60â100 m) of Pulley Ridge (off the southwest coast of Florida) play in replenishing key... -
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
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...