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Bringing Urban Waterfronts Back to Life: Philadelphia Edition
If you visit the waterfronts of many cities in the U.S., you will find a common scene: abandoned eyesores with artificial, hardened, and denuded shorelines. They attract trash, invasive species, and...
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Mussel Memory: How a Long-Term Marine Pollution Program Got New Life
This is a post by Dr. Alan Mearns, NOAA Senior Staff Scientist. Scraping small black mussels off of slippery rocks in the Pacific Northwest’s chilly, wet January weather probably doesn’t sound like...
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A NOAA Scientist’s Message on World Ocean Day: Follow Your Interests on...
This is a post by Vicki Loe and NOAA Environmental Scientist Dr. Amy Merten Happy World Ocean Day, a global celebration honoring the ocean that gives us so much and links us across the globe. This year...
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Mapping How Sensitive the Coasts Are to Oil Spills
This is a post by the Office of Response and Restoration’s Donna Roberts, Jill Petersen, and Ashley Braun. The U.S. shoreline stretches 95,471 miles, from the coast of Alaska to the Great Lakes to the...
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How Big Is the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”? Science vs. Myth
While everything may be bigger in Texas, some reports about the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” would lead you to believe that this marine mass of plastic is bigger than Texas—maybe twice as big as the...
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Saving Coral After a Ship Grounds on a Reef in Puerto Rico
Late last week a small freighter, the M/V Jireh, ran aground on Mona Island, an uninhabited island off Puerto Rico. The 22-square-mile island, an ecological reserve, is about 41 miles west of the main...
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Salmon Celebrate Less Oily Habitat Six Years after Diesel Spill in...
Joe Inslee and Ian Zelo of OR&R’s Assessment and Restoration Division also contributed to this post. Salmon and other water-loving species in Washington’s White River watershed should be breathing...
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Giving Communities the Dollars to Restore America’s Rivers
This is a post by NOAA intern Sarah Idczak. While recently leading an activity for middle school students, I showed two pictures of streams. In one, a narrow culvert protruded from under a road, the...
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The Toxicity of Oil: What’s the Big Deal?
This is a post by the Office of Response and Restoration’s Mary Evans. Dealing with a major oil spill is a huge effort, sometimes requiring billions of dollars and involving hundreds, even thousands of...
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With Tropical Storm Isaac’s Passing, Crews Resume Cutting Apart Grounded Ship...
With the passage of the Tropical Storm formerly known as Hurricane Isaac, salvage crews and coral ecologists are once again back on Mona Island, Puerto Rico, working to remove the grounded freighter...
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From Mess to Marsh: A Superfund Success for Restoration near Galveston Bay,...
This is a post by the Office of Response and Restoration’s Jessica White. In many ways, the Superfund site at the former home of the Malone Service Company in Texas City, Texas, is just like the...
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The Never-ending History of Life on a Rock
In 1989 when Dr. Alan Mearns first caught sight of a certain seaweed-encrusted boulder in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, he had little idea he would be visiting that chest-high, relatively nondescript...
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NOAA Awards $500,000 to Research Projects Exploring Impacts of Chemical...
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science in Baltimore, Md., has been awarded $150,000 to study the effects of dispersants and dispersed oil on the commercially important blue crab, a...
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Study Reveals D.C. Community near Anacostia River Are Eating and Sharing...
A family fishes on Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia River. According to a 2012 report, 74 percent of those fishing this river are eating or sharing fish possibly contaminated by cancer-causing chemical...
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Submit Your Comments: Projects to Improve Bird and Sea Turtle Nesting...
A hatchling loggerhead sea turtle takes to the beach on Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. One proposed project focuses on reducing artificial lighting impacts on nesting habitat for...
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The Western Flyer: A Sunken Piece of Literary History Is Raised from the Depths
By Office of Response and Restoration Scientific Support Coordinator LTJG Alice Drury and National Marine Fisheries Service Senior Scientist Kevin Bailey Alice Drury: It was lunchtime on September 24,...
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A Train Derails in Paulsboro, N.J., Releasing 23,000 Gallons of Toxic Vinyl...
Seven train cars derailed when the bridge over the Mantua Creek collapsed Friday morning. Four tank cars containing vinyl chloride were dumped into the creek. Nearby residents were evacuated and...
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Submit Your Comments: Studying Decades of Environmental Injuries at the...
This is a post by OR&R’s Charlene Andrade, Mary Baker, and Vicki Loe. Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960. The N Reactor is in the...
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Looking out for Sea Lions and Salmon Before a Grounded Rig Could Spill a Drop...
This is a post by OR&R’s Alaska Regional Coordinator Dr. Sarah Allan. Here you can see the rocky coast and habitats near where the conical drilling unit Kulluk sat aground on the southeast shore of...
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Report Reveals Hudson River and Wildlife Have Suffered Decades of Extensive...
According to the report, “Fish not only absorb PCBs directly from the river water but are also exposed through the ingestion of contaminated prey, such as insects, crayfish, and smaller fish…New York...
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