Christopher Sinigalliano - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/christopher-sinigalliano/ Preparing the nation for change by studying the ocean, earth & atmosphere Thu, 09 Dec 2021 17:53:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NOAA_logo_512x512-150x150.png Christopher Sinigalliano - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/christopher-sinigalliano/ 32 32 Update to the BEACHES Study: Children Visiting Beaches with Open Wounds are More Susceptible to Bacterial Infection /update-to-beaches-study/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 17:18:52 +0000 /?p=17142 A new paper appearing in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health examines how the presence of children’s open wounds and abrasions during play at the beach may put them at greater risk of skin infections from marine bacteria and other pathogens they encounter. The study finds that children with existing or newly-acquired wounds while at the beach are more susceptible to infection.

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Land-Based Mircobes Affecting Coral Reefs /land-based-mircobes-affecting-coral-reefs/ Mon, 01 May 2017 22:24:09 +0000 http://wordpress.tempest.aoml.noaa.gov/wordpress/?p=2382 Scientists found that microbes and their genetic material from land-based sources of pollution could be found in reef water and in tissues of corals. This could affect the genomics of the native microbial communities found in coral reefs, which can impact how corals thrive and survive. These new insights highlight an additional potential threat to corals from land-based sources of pollution in southeast Florida, where corals are already under existential threat from warming oceans and resulting coral bleaching, disease and mortality.

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Study Focuses on Contaminants Lurking in Urban Tidal Flooding /contaminants-tidal-flooding/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 23:52:18 +0000 http://wordpress.tempest.aoml.noaa.gov/wordpress/?p=2393 Tidal flooding from events such as the so-called “King Tides” and “Super Tides” are flooding urban coastal communities with increasing frequency as sea levels rise. These tidal flood waters can acquire a wide range of contaminants and toxins as a result of soaking in the built environment of urbanized coastlines. A multi- institutional, interdisciplinary research team, including scientists from AOML, is examining the types of contamination picked up from the urbanized coastal landscape and transported into coastal waters through tidal flooding.

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NOAA Research on Microbial Communities Contributes to National Microbiome Initiative /national-microbiome-initiative/ Fri, 13 May 2016 23:45:35 +0000 http://wordpress.tempest.aoml.noaa.gov/wordpress/?p=4906 On May 13th, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy introduced the National Microbiome Initiative, an effort to support multi-agency research to help sample and better understand communities of microorganisms that are critical to both human health and the world’s ecosystems. As the nation’s premier ocean science agency, NOAA is leading interdisciplinary research to improve observation and assessment of marine microbiomes.  To support this national initiative, NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) received nearly $2 million in funding this year to conduct a number of projects that integrate genetic sampling techniques and technologies to help advance the understanding of the ocean’s microbiomes.

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AOML Researchers Take Water Samples at Annual King Tide /sampling-at-annual-king-tide/ Tue, 29 Sep 2015 12:02:16 +0000 /?p=10579 On September 29th, researchers from AOML's Environmental Microbiology Lab along with scientists from Florida International University’s Southeast Environmental Research Center collected water samples along Miami Beach during a king tide event, the highest astronomical tide of the year. Sample sites were located adjacent to pumps installed by the City of Miami Beach to actively pump super-tidal floodwaters out of the streets and back into Biscayne Bay. AOML’s team continuously monitored and collected water samples over a 5-hour period at locations in Maurice Gibb Memorial Park, along 14th Street, and at 27th Street and Indian Creek Drive. During sampling, physical water properties such as temperature, salinity, pH, turbidity, and dissolved oxygen content were also measured.

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Ocean Sampling Day 2015 /ocean-sampling-day-2015/ Sun, 21 Jun 2015 15:30:31 +0000 /?p=10479 Photos of AOML microbiologists, interns and citizen scientists collecting samples on Ocean Sampling Day at sites in the Florida Keys, Miami, and La Jolla.

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AOML Enlists Citizen Scientists for International Ocean Sampling Day 2015 /citizen-science-sampling/ Wed, 27 May 2015 00:19:31 +0000 http://wordpress.tempest.aoml.noaa.gov/wordpress/?p=5512 Researchers with AOML's Environmental Microbiology Lab joined a global effort to sample the smallest members of the ocean ecosystem on June 21 during International Ocean Sampling Day. Organized and led by the European Union's MicroB3 organization and the Ocean Sampling Day Consortium, Ocean Sampling Day (OSD) is a simultaneous sampling campaign of the world’s oceans and coastal waters. These cumulative samples, related in time, space and environmental parameters, contribute to determine a baseline of global marine biodiversity and functions on the molecular level.

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NOAA Researchers Take Water Samples at Annual ‘King Tide’ /king-tide/ Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:23:19 +0000 /?p=10298 On October 9th, researchers from AOML's Environmental Microbiology Lab monitored and collected water samples in Maurice Gibb Memorial Park during the King Tide, the highest astronomical tide of the year.

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Research Fit for a King Tide /research-fit-for-a-king-tide/ Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:42:15 +0000 http://wordpress.tempest.aoml.noaa.gov/wordpress/?p=5720 The colloquial term 'king tides', referring to the highest astronomical tides of the year, is now part of most Miami Beach residents and city managers' vocabulary. Exacerbated by rising seas, these seasonal tides can add up to 12 inches of water to the average high tide, threatening the urbanized landscape of Miami Beach. During these events, AOML’s Microbiology Team is on the scene to investigate these tidal waters as they rise and recede. The microbiologists are part of a research consortium for sea level rise and climate change, led by Florida International University’s Southeast Environmental Research Center. The research effort focuses on collecting samples and monitoring water quality at locations along the Biscayne Bay watershed where the City of Miami Beach has installed pumps to actively push these super-tidal floodwaters back into the bay.

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NOAA Researchers Take Water Samples at Annual ‘King Tide’ /water-samples-king-tide/ Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:22:43 +0000 /?p=10072 On October 9th, researchers from AOML's Environmental Microbiology Lab monitored and collected water samples in Maurice Gibb Memorial Park during the King Tide, the highest astronomical tide of the year.

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