-
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
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
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: Annotations and images of corals, sponges, and fish from the northern Gulf of America from 2017-07-20 to 2021-08-15 (NCEI Accession 0299813)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset provides geo-referenced observations on the occurrence of corals, sponges, fishes, and invertebrates in the deep waters of the northern Gulf of America.... -
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
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... -
Federal
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... -
Federal
NCCOS Mapping: lakebed maps and associated geospatial data of Wisconsin - Lake Superior, 2020-07-25 to 2022-03-01 (NCEI Accession 0252121)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset includes lakebed maps and associated geospatial data in Lake Superior, offshore the Wisconsin Bayfield Peninsula and the Apostle Islands National... -
Federal
RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Building Resilience for Oysters, Blue Crabs, and Spotted Seatrout to Environmental Trends and Variability in the Gulf of America (formerly Gulf of Mexico)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project explores how oyster, blue crab, and spotted seatrout populations respond to human and environmental changes with the goal of improving the management of... -
Federal
RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Ecosystem Modeling to Improve Fisheries Management in the Gulf of Mexico
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project will integrate information on ecosystem stressors and predator-prey interactions into the fisheries assessment and management process in the Gulf of Mexico. -
Federal
RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: A Web-Based Interactive Decision-Support Tool for Adaptation of Coastal Urban and Natural Ecosystems (ACUNE) in Southwest Florida
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project will develop a decision-support tool to aid resource managers, municipalities, and a county with decisions related to the preservation and restoration of... -
Federal
RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Evaluation of Gulf of Mexico oceanographic observation networks impact assessment on ecosystem management and recommendation
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project will assess Gulf of Mexico observation networks from an ecosystem management perspective, based on an approach that has been successfully used to assess... -
Federal
NCCOS Mapping: Collaborative Benthic Habitat Mapping in the Nearshore Waters of the Great Lakes Basin: Data collected during cruise GL-24-01 in the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary (WSCNMS), Lake Michigan from 2024-04-30 to 2024-10-16
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This data collection includes information and environmental data collected during the GL-24-01 mapping cruise by an assortment of equipment including a drop camera,... -
Federal
NOAA RESTORE Science Program: Linking Community and Food-web Approaches to Restoration: Organic matter decomposition in restored vs. natural Louisiana marshes near the West Pointe A La Hache siphon, 2018-05-21 to 2021-07-28 (NCEI Accession 0302679)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This data set contains calculated organic matter decomposition rates from created and natural brackish marshes in Plaquemines parish, Louisiana near the West Pointe A... -
Federal
NOAA RESTORE Science Program: Evaluation of Gulf of Mexico oceanographic observation networks, impact assessment on ecosystem management and recommendations: Spatio-Temporal Ecosystem Modeling (NCEI Accession 0205678)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset includes outputs from an ecosystem model, which is a tool for regional science managers to explore marine spatial planning scenarios in the context of... -
Federal
RESTORE Research: Evaluation of Gulf of Mexico oceanographic observation networks, impact assessment on ecosystem management and recommendations: Simulated Current Velocity, Temperature, Salinity, and Elevation from Hydrodynamic Modeling for 2015 (NCEI Accession 0194303)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset is based on archives from the University of Miamiâs high-resolution (1/50 degrees, 1.8km) configuration of the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) in... -
Federal
RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Population Connectivity of Deepwater Corals in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project will determine where the corals in different mesophotic (50-150 m) and deepwater (150-2400 m) populations in the Gulf of Mexico originated from, which is... -
Federal
NOAA RESTORE Science Program: ecosystem modeling to improve fisheries management in the Gulf of Mexico: model inputs and outputs for the US Gulf-wide model, 1980-01-01 to 2016-12-31 (NCEI Accession 0243116)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset is a collection of files containing the necessary inputs to, and relevant outputs from, the U.S. Gulf-wide ecosystem model, developed using the Ecopath... -
Federal
RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Linking habitat to recruitment: evaluating the importance of pelagic Sargassum to fisheries management in the Gulf of Mexico
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project will evaluate the importance of Sargassum as a nursery habitat for fish in the northern Gulf of Mexico. -
Federal
RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: The central role of the Mississippi River and its delta in the oceanography and ecology of the Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project investigated the influence of the Mississippi River and its delta on the oceanography, ecology, and economy of the Gulf of Mexico; identified gaps in...