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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... -
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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... -
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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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NCCOS Assessment: Investigating the effects of chronic turbidity exposure to priority Florida coral species, Acropora cervicornis 2023-08-15 to 2023-11-07 (NCEI Accession 0309260)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset is comprised of many biochemical analyses performed throughout the course of a 90-day laboratory exposure experiments to determine the chronic effects of... -
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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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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef benthic communities in the Florida Reef Tract
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Benthic survey data provided in this collection of datasets are from three (3) distinct regions along the Florida reef tract; 1) Dry Tortugas, 2) Florida Keys from... -
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NCCOS Assessment: Chemical contaminants in the sediments in the St. Croix East End Marine Park (STXEEMP): Organic and inorganic chemical contaminants in sediments from STXEEMP, St. Croix, 2021-03-11 to 2021-06-04 (NCEI Accession 0306532)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset contains results from the analysis of sediments for chemical contaminants including organic contaminants like hydrocarbons and pesticides, and inorganic... -
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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... -
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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... -
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NOAA NCCOS Assessment: Prioritizing Areas for Future Seafloor Mapping and Exploration in the U.S. Caribbean from 2019-06-28 to 2019-07-28
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Spatial information about the seafloor is critical for decision-making by marine resource science, management and tribal organizations. Coordinating data needs can... -
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National Status and Trends: Bioeffects Program - San Francisco Bay Database
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 San Francisco Bay... -
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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... -
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NCCOS Assessment: Effects of amoxicillin exposure on the early life stages of sea urchins, oysters, and corals in 2021 to 2022 (NCEI Accession 0303131)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
In FY2022 (June 2021- September 2022), we conducted six experiments to determine the effect of amoxicillin exposure on marine invertebrates: one on the development of... -
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National Status and Trends, Benthic Surveillance Project Fluorescent Aromatic Compounds (FAC) Data, 1984-1991, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The National Status and Trends (NSandT) Benthic Surveillance Fluorescent Aromatic Compounds (FAC) file reports the trace concentrations of Fluorescent Aromatic... -
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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... -
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RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Cooperative monitoring program for spawning aggregations in the Gulf of Mexico
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project compiled and evaluated existing information on fish spawning aggregations in the Gulf of Mexico as the basis to design a cooperative, Gulf-wide... -
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NOAA NCCOS Assessment: Prioritizing Areas for Future Seafloor Mapping, Research, and Exploration Offshore of California, Oregon, and Washington
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Spatial information about the seafloor is critical for decision-making by marine resource science, management and tribal organizations. Coordinating data needs can... -
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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.... -
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National Status and Trends: Bioeffects Program - Southwest Puerto Rico Chemical Contaminant Assessment Summary
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The purpose of the project was to characterize the extent and magnitude of chemical contamination in southwest Puerto Rico, as part of a larger effort to link coral... -
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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...