The ability to observe physical oceanographic variables such as sea surface currents, temperature, salinity, external and internal tides, and surface waves support a vast array of stakeholders and missions, including ...

The Gulf of Maine is a productive continental shelf sea that is fresher and less buffered against changes in pH than adjacent Atlantic Ocean waters.  This is due to compounding ...

Monitoring programs for harmful algal blooms (HABs) typically rely on toxin analysis of seafood samples or time-consuming manual enumeration of phytoplankton, restricting the frequency of observations and the potential forearly ...

Deployment of an Operational System for Acquiring and Disseminating Oceanographic and Behavioral Data Telemetered from Tagged SharksAnimal-borne sensors can be an effective method for collecting oceanographic data and, in certain ...

WebCOOS camera view down 6th Avenue Beachfront in Folly Beach, SC. Photo credit: WebCOOS Over the past five years, the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) and partners have ...

Available GNSS stations within 500m from the coasts; yellow indicates NOAA NGSstations and green indicates UNAVCO stations Sea level is the height of the sea surface, and is geodetically defined ...

Researchers deploying bio-logging tags on white sharks in the mid-Atlantic Bight Credit: South Fork Natural History Museum The was awarded a 3-year grant to operationalize the collection and model assimilation ...

In situ sensors are being deployed at Hog Reef in Bermuda by scientists from Scripps Inst. of Oceanography and the University of Montana. The sensors measure alkalinity, a parameter that ...

Large “brown tide” events, where large mats of sargassum inundate coastal areas, are increasing in frequency and extent in the U.S. Caribbean. Preliminary data collected by CARICOOS suggests that these ...

The Ocean Aero Triton (Credit: Ocean Aero) , and partners have been awarded $1m for a project to enable offshore harmful algal bloom sampling using the autonomous surface vehicle Triton ...