Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are an escalating threat to public health, coastal economies, fisheries, and tourism — costing the U.S. economy hundreds of millions of dollars annually. As some of ...

2016 PETER BENCHLEY OCEAN AWARDSThe 9th Annual Awards event weekend will take place May 20 - 22, 2016 in beautiful Monterey, California. 2016 Annual Peter Benchley™ Ocean Award Winners Announced ...

In FY2013, the U.S. IOOS Program (IOOS®) instituted a multi-year Ocean Technology Transition project to advance science and technology and better enable decision-making. Two efforts were selected for funding in ...

In FY 2014, the U.S. IOOS Program (IOOS®), in partnership with NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program, continued a multi-year Ocean Technology Transition project to advance science and technology and better enable ...

Mook Sea Farm, Wapole, Maine. Credit: Mook Sea Farm In FY 2015, the U.S. IOOS Program (IOOS®), in partnership with NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program, continued a multi-year Ocean Technology Transition ...

A surprise November blizzard greeted us in St. Petersburg for GEO-XIII, but unlike Washington DC, that's no reason for a snow day--it was business as usual along the Neva River ...

GOOS is delighted to launch the - an online platform that provides information on the sustained ocean observing programs which deliver information about the health of marine life. “We now ...

For more than two decades, NOAA has been tracking monk seals throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago as part of their larger effort to study and protect this endangered seal. And now ...

UC Santa Barbara’s Thomas Turner has published a paper in the journal Zootaxa describing four new species of sponges. These novel specimens weren’t dredged from the murky depths or found ...

IOOS and CARICOOS joined the National Ocean Service (NOS) offices: Office of Coast Survey (OCS), Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) and the ...