Multiple Stressors, Multiple Consequences Muck, harmful algal blooms and changing fisheries plague Saginaw Bay; researchers look into why
It’s reached the point in the season where beach-goers can’t seem avoid the decaying algae riddling the Saginaw Bay shoreline just inside of Lake Huron.

"The smell sensation you get is like you are standing in a barnyard," longtime resident Warner Price, 74, said describing the "dark, black, decaying mess" that has been caking his beachfront property for the last decade.

Fire and water
Scientists study how fire may affect key functions in marshes
(MOSS POINT, Miss.) - Natural resource managers often use prescribed burns in forests to reduce fuels, improve habitat and prepare sites for seeding and planting. When it comes to black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus) marshes, less is known about the potential benefits or drawbacks of using fire for management purposes.

Coastal wetlands are important to communities because they lessen the strength of storms, reduce flooding and offer biodiversity for recreational activities and coastal economies.

Monitoring Our Climate: The Value of Atmospheric Reference Observations
The Air Resources Laboratory participates in several national and international climate reference observing networks, providing leadership in establishing networks, designing, operating and maintaining observing sites, and analysis of the data.

How do we know that our climate has changed? How will we know how and why climate will have changed in the coming years, decades, and even centuries? These are two of the many climate-related questions scientists in NOAA have dedicated themselves to addressing. Such information is essential, as the United States and the world decide how to address climate change.

Sea Grant-funded Researcher "Fingerprints" Wild Rice
As historic populations of wild rice around the Great Lakes region have shrunk, they have also become fragmented. By examining the plant’s genetic makeup, one researcher hopes to reveal critical evidence to aid restoration.

Lionfish Invasion: Super Predator Threatens Caribbean Coral Reefs
Indo-Pacific lionfish are rapidly invading the waters of the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic. Due to their population explosion and aggressive behavior, lionfish have the potential to become the most disastrous marine invasion in history by drastically reducing the abundance of coral reef fishes and leaving behind a devastated ecosystem. Dr. Mark Hixon and his team from Oregon State University with support from NOAA’s Undersea Research Program (NURP) have embarked on the first studies to measure the severity of the crisis posed by this invasive predator.

Local Decision Maker: Helping Indiana Communities Plan Their Future
In Indiana, it has become much easier for local officials to consider natural resources as they develop land use plans for their community. Local Decision Maker (LDM) is a GIS-based online resource rich with research data on environmentally sensitive areas, open space, streams and rivers, and potential sources of contamination.

NOAA-supported mission discovers historic shipwrecks off Turks and Caicos Islands :
Maritime archaeologists have identified the wrecks of two historic ships, including the slave ship Trouvadore, off the coast of East Caicos in the Turks and Caicos Islands after several years of archaeological research funded by NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. Don Keith and Toni Carrell, from the underwater archaeology research institute Ships of Discovery, were able to identify the Trouvadore 167 years after it struck a reef in 1841 while en route to Cuba.

NOAA Team Visits India's Ministry of Earth Sciences for the First India - U.S. Science Colloquium on Earth Observations and Science:
Under the leadership of Dr. Chet Koblinsky, Director of the NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), a NOAA team visited India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) in mid-September

Project Limulus Bringing Insights to Horseshoe Crab Conservation and Sustainable Harvest:
Connecticut Sea Grant helps fund a research effort that will create a knowledge base about horseshoe crabs. Researchers and volunteers along the Connecticut and Long Island shorelines find the horseshoe crabs and record information such as size, sex, mating habits and location, then tag the crabs to monitor the movements of the animals after they are released.

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