If you were to pour a bucket of water in your yard, where would the water end up? Great Lakes FieldScope is a new interactive mapping tool that will help explore what happens to that water. Students, teachers, and nature enthusiasts can share and analyze real-world data, including observations they took themselves!
Get to Know the Great Lakes through FieldScope Read More>
The National Sea Grant Law Center and partners recently embarked on an innovative project that is bringing together individuals from three professional communities that rarely interact – Assistant Attorneys General, law enforcement personnel, and aquatic invasive species coordinators to improve management of the primary vector for the spread of aquatic invasive species, the trailered boat.
Changing vessel routes to open areas for offshore wind development could generate significant societal benefits by Katya Samoteskul
Influence of predator identity on the strength of predator avoidance response in lobster by Erin Wilkinson
NOAA Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship Lecture Series Read More>
What is the role of the traditional New England fishery in the ever-increasing global economy? How do local New Bedford fishing families stay afloat while competing with larger industry and keeping up with changing government regulations?
VIDEO: Celebrating America’s Largest Commercial Fishing Port Community Read More>
Santhiska Pather, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology presenting: Ammonium cycling in the rocky intertidal: remineralization, removal and retention
Leslie Irwin, NOAA OAR Office of Communications presenting: The value of communicating science: Lessons from the Fellowship
Knauss Lecture Series Read More>
Maryland Sea Grant researchers identify and map previously unrecorded Maryland streams. The additional detail is expected to inform conservation and development projects statewide.
New Maryland Stream Map Informs Conservation Efforts Read More>
Sea Grant is pleased to announce that Dr. LaDon Swann of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium has been named NOAA Research Team Member of the Month for December 2013.
Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Director Named NOAA Research Team Member of the Month Read More>
Fishery Management and Information Sharing Networks: The Association between Sector Management and Social Capital by Gabe Dunham
Plastic pollution in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre by Miriam Goldstein, Ph.D
Knauss Lecture Series Read More>
New peer-reviewed research on geoduck aquaculture increases understanding of how industry operations might affect Puget Sound and Strait of Juan de Fuca environments. Those key findings are included in a report released today by Washington Sea Grant.
Washington Sea Grant Releases Final Geoduck Aquaculture Report Read More>
Smithsonian researchers partnered with Gary Freitag, an Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program agent, to hold a volunteer-led assessment of invasive species off the coast of Ketchikan, Alaska.
Upside Down Bioblitz in Ketchikan, Alaska Read More>
University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program convened a nationally recognized team of experts to create viable, long-term solutions that elevate the quality of life within the existing and developing communities in 'Ewa, Hawai'i.
Achieving Smart Growth in ‘Ewa, Hawai‘i Read More>
The Great Lakes, a vital asset to 35 million residents, have a legacy of pollution due to our nation's industrial past. The Great Lakes Legacy Act revitalizes rivers, lakes, and harbors, helping to restore lost benefits. This video outlines the Great Lakes Legacy Act and highlights benefits it brings to communities.
VIDEO: Tracking the Impact of Wisconsin River Cleanup Read More>
Staff and stakeholders of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) held a congressional briefing on NOAA’s role in supporting coastal communities before, during, and after Sandy’s impact.
With the assistance of Louisiana Sea Grant, shrimpers from the state received more than $18 million in direct financial assistance over the past three years through the federal Trade Assistance Adjustment program.
Sea Grant Helps Louisiana Shrimpers Compete in Global Markets Read More>
Trophic structure in the Marginal Ice Zone in the Weddell Sea Antarctic by Erica Ombres, Ph.D.
Incubation temperature effects on hatchling performance in the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) by Leah Fisher
Knauss Lecture Series Read More>
In an effort to safeguard valuable areas along the coastline, the City of L.A. engaged the University of Southern California (USC) Sea Grant Program to develop AdaptLA, a city-led science-based and stakeholder-supported adaptation planning process and vulnerability assessment
Adapting to Sea Level Rise in a Coastal Megacity Read More>
A partnership between Sea Grant, the National Weather Service, and the United States Lifesaving Association will facilitate the collection of real-time data by lifeguards to improve rip current forecasts
Federal and Private Partners Join Forces to Break the Grip of the Rip Read More>
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant is leading the effort to develop an online tool that allows community planners to make informed decisions regarding land use by identifying how watershed ecosystems will look in the future if current land use practices continue or are ramped up.
New Tool Helps Planners Steer Clear of Tipping Points Read More>
Guam Sea Grant and University of Guam researchers are tackling the threat of invasive algae in Micronesia using modern genetic techniques.
Hide and Seek: Unearthing Micronesia’s Lurking Invaders Read More>
Placement week is a full week event in which Sea Grant John A. Knauss Marine Policy Finalists travel to the Washington, D.C. to interview with, and ultimately be placed in, a federal agency (executive) or congressional office (legislative).
Sea Grant Knauss Placement Week Begins Read More>
The Sea Grant network has been actively engaged in both the short term and long term recovery for those impacted by Sandy.
A Year After Sandy: Sea Grant and Coastal Storm Awareness Read More>
Georgia Sea Grant, University of Georgia, and North Carolina Sea Grant are launching a project to help St. Marys, GA and Hyde County, NC plan for sea level rise, increased coastal flooding and intensified storm surges.
Sea Grant and UGA help communities plan for the future Read More>
A new climate study from University of Hawai’i Sea Grant found that most of the earth will routinely experience a climate unlike anything on record by 2047. More shocking, is the finding that the tropics may experience these unprecedented temperatures in as early as seven years.
Sobering findings from new Sea Grant climate study Read More>
Florida Sea Grant brought together a team of researchers, agency scientists and industry leaders to understand the decline of the Apalachicola oyster fishery and to identify a strategy for efficient recovery.
Bringing Back Florida’s Oysters Read More>
Horseshoe crabs, whose eggs are vital to migratory shorebird feeding stopovers, have strict harvest quotas due to over harvesting in the 1990s. A research team led by Nancy Targett, director of Delaware Sea Grant, has developed an artificial bait that has the potential to reduce the number of horseshoe crabs needed to catch eel and whelk.
New Artificial Bait Could Reduce Stress on Horseshoe Crabs Read More>
This report documents the results of projects in eight states, led by Oregon Sea Grant. We used a risk-communication framework to provide assistance to coastal communities.
Climate Field Notes Read More>
Helping diverse coastal communities adapt to a wide array of impacts from climate change is a challenge. Learn how Connecticut Sea Grant is making things a little easier by compiling the best practices from 34 communities along the northeast coast, from Maine to Virginia, and displaying them in an interactive map.
Coastal Communities Sharing Ways to Adapt to Climate Change Read More>
A collaborative effort between the University of the Aegean in Greece, the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Northwest Campus is providing free real-time information to the public, about ship information and movements near Nome.
Marine Advisory Agent Brings Free Ship Tracking to Nome Read More>
White abalone is rare and teetering on the brink. A Sea Grant funded study shows that at the current rate of decline, the population is expected to halve about every five years.
New Study Adds Urgency to Abalone Recovery Read More>
An updated version of the National Sea Grant Advisory Board Fall 2013 Meeting Agenda is now available.
National Sea Grant Advisory Board Fall 2013 Meeting – Revised Agenda Read More>
NOAA’s Fisheries Service and the Sea Grant program announce the recipients of a specialized joint fellowship program. Multi-year fellowships are awarded annually to students pursuing doctorates in Population Dynamics (stock assessments and ecosystem modeling) and Marine Resource Economics (value and economic relevance of fisheries).
NOAA Fisheries Service and Sea Grant Announce 2013 Fellowship Awards Read More>
Maine Sea Grant is helping to train lobstermen and other commercial fishermen on aquaculture techniques and business.
Farmers and Fishermen Sharing the Waters Read More>
Gulf of Mexico Alliance, with the the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium (MASGC) and developed the Coastal Community Resilience Index (CRI) as a tool to help Gulf communities increase awareness of their susceptibility to natural hazard events.
The Coastal Community Resilience Index Read More>
George Loomis, a soil scientist and director of the New England Onsite Wastewater Training Center at the University of Rhode Island, is part of a research team supported by Sea Grant that is looking at the current designs and parameters for septic systems against various climate change scenarios.
Will Septic Systems Fail to Protect Sensitive Ecosystems? Read More>
The winning projects of the climate adaptation initiative represent a diverse array of regions and challenges, and highlight to power of communities working together to address far-reaching challenges, partnering with universities and government to ensure the best science available is used to inform public decisions.
NOAA Sea Grant Funding Supports Community Climate Adaptation Read More>
With the support of The University of Southern California (USC) Sea Grant Program and the California Ocean Protection Council, Dr. Kelley has pioneered the use of a cutting-edge technology—proteomics—to see the “fingerprints” or impacts of endocrine-disrupting compounds in fish.
The Fingerprints of Endocrine Disruption Read More>
Dennis Hwang, Coastal Hazard Mitigation Specialist at University of Hawai’i Sea Grant developed the Hawai’i Coastal Hazard Mitigation Guidebook to address the lack of widely publicized, reliable guidance for building along the coast to reduce vulnerability. Due to the wide spread popularity, 7 states across the country developed similar books specific to their community.
University of Hawai’i Sea Grant Helps Coastal Communities Prepare for Hazards Read More>
Part 3 of the 3 part series 'Selecting a Better Oyster'. Scientists at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science's Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Technology Center look into how traits from parent oysters are passed to their offspring in hopes of improving Virgina's oyster aquaculture industry.
Selecting a Better Oyster – Part 3 Read More>
Scientists release new projections for future sea level rise for the Chesapeake Bay and for Maryland, Virginia and nearby Mid-Atlantic coastal areas. In these, regions sea levels are rising faster than the global average, the result of subsiding lands, a slowing Gulf Stream and melting land ice in Antarctica.
For more information on this study see Maryland Sea Grant
Forecasting Sea level Rise in Maryland Read More>
A colorful new art display opened up in downtown Mobile, AL to increase public awareness of the role oysters play in Mobile Bay.
Oyster Trail opens to support oyster gardening Read More>
This is art 2 in a 3 part series 'Selecting a Better Oyster'. Virginia Sea Grant-funded research gets more profitable oysters in the hands of growers.
Selecting a Better Oyster – Part 2 Read More>
Guidance for Sea Grant Program Omnibus Proposals due 5:00 p.m. (EST) Nov 1, 2013 NOAA Sea Grant Omnibus Guidance 2014-2017 (pdf version) ANNOUNCEMENT OF FEDERAL
ALERT: Sea Grant Program Omnibus Proposals Due November 1 Read More>
The National Academy of Sciences' Gulf of Mexico Program has appointed Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Director LaDon Swann to an advisory group that will create a strategic vision and guide the program’s development and implementation. The program will focus on human health, environmental protection and oil system safety in the Gulf of Mexico and the United States' Outer Continental Shelf.
LaDon Swann Appointed to National Academy of Sciences’ Gulf of Mexico Program Read More>
UW Sea Grant funds a team of maritime archaeologists and students surveying the wreck of the Great Lakes' first self-unloading wooden schooner, abandoned in Sturgeon Bay.
Shallow Shipwreck: Surveying Davidson’s Adriatic Read More>
UH Sea Grant was selected to receive the 2013 Dr. Chiu Award for Excellence in Hurricane Preparedness for its efforts to make Hawai‘i’s communities safer through its excellent work on the Homeowner’s Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards.
University of Hawai’i Sea Grant Receives Award for Hurricane Preparedness Read More>
Paula Cullenberg will be the new director of Alaska Sea Grant, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, starting in July 2013. Cullenberg takes the helm after serving as Alaska Sea Grant associate director since 2007, and as Marine Advisory Program leader since 2004.
Paula Cullenberg to Lead Alaska Sea Grant Read More>
Rip currents kill more than 100 people every year on U.S. beaches. Sea Grant funded researchers are studying what the public knows about rip currents and how to better educate people to spot these dangerous currents.
Texas Sea Grant researchers help beach visitors avoid the grip of the rip Read More>
Part 1 of a 3 part series 'Building a Better Oyster'. Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Technology Center helps take the oyster aquaculture industry to the next level.
Selecting a Better Oyster – Part I Read More>
The Great Lakes may span eight states and two provinces, but the threat of new aquatic invasive species is a constant reminder that the region is connected in more than name alone.
Getting a jump on aquatic invasive species: Read More>
Join us for a Sea Grant Brown Bag Lecture Series on Friday May, 17 from Noon-1:00 p.m. EDT at the NOAA Central Library SSMC3, 2nd floor, Silver Spring, MD
Topic: The Sustainable Working Waterfronts Toolkit: Â
Connecting Decision-makers, Landowners, and Users with Information and Tools for Preserving and Enhancing our Nation’s Working Waterfronts.
The Sustainable Working Waterfront Toolkit – Sea Grant Brown Bag Lecture Series Read More>
University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute has released the Great Lakes Coastal Community Climate Adaptation Checklist. This resources was created by Outreach Specialist David Hart and Grad Student Evan Murdock.
University of Wisconsin Sea Grant creates Great lakes Climate Adaptation Checklist Read More>
Imagine Boston, Charleston, San Francisco or Seattle without fresh seafood, pleasure boats or shipping vessels. It is an impossible task. The history, culture and identity of these communities are inextricably linked to their “working waterfronts,” which are places for active, water-related commerce and desirable areas in which to live and work. Unfortunately, many of these working waterfronts face a growing number of challenges.
Introducing a New Resource to Help our Nation’s “Working Waterfront’s” Flourish Read More>
Rain Garden, a new free iPhone app, guides users on how to create and install rain gardens that curtail runoff of pollutants, prevent erosion, and provide wildlife habitat. Development of the app was funded by the NOAA Sea Grant Climate Change Adaptation Capacity Building Initiative and developed by Connecticut Sea Grant and the University of Connecticut Center for Land Use Education and Research.
Create a Rain Garden with new NOAA Sea Grant-funded app Read More>
You can now count middle and high school students among the growing list of Floridians learning about aquaculture, a relatively new industry that already generates more than $70 million in farm-gate income annually.
Florida Sea Grant Helps School Raise Grades with Aquaculture Curriculum Read More>
Through research, education and outreach, NOAA Sea Grant is addressing bycatch from the Gulf of Maine to the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Alaska.
Sea Grant Programs Strike Balance between Protecting Species and Protecting Economies Read More>
Class of 2014 Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship applications are due by 5:00 pm local time on February 15, 2013 to eligible Sea Grant Programs and Projects. Official application can be found in the 2014 Federal Funding Opportunity.
Sea Grant Knauss Fellowships Read More>
Marine and coastal environments form complex interdependent webs of life where organisms of all sizes interact according to intricate rules of survival….
Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Read More>
If you go to the grocery store to buy seafood, chances are that what you end up buying is imported – an 80 percent chance that it is imported, according to NOAA Fisheries Service. See what Sea Grant is doing to help communities invest in their local fishermen with high-quality, regionally harvest seafood as their return.
Fresh, Local and Good for the Community Read More>
Tsunamis have been a reality for coastal communities for as long as humans have lived near the shore…
Building Hazard Resilience in Coastal Communities Read More>
