Ecosystems

The Northern North Pacific and Northeast Pacific Regional climatologies play a significant role in long-term Earth and ocean climate change.

NOAA works to understand, predict, and ultimately reduce hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico and its impacts to ecosystems and coastal communities.

The World Ocean Database holds a broad array of measurements for studies of the ocean and Earth’s atmosphere.

NCEI created the National Deep-Sea Corals and Sponge Database, which contains more than 430,000 records.

NCEI holds one of the largest public collections of marine environmental data compiled during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill response.

From Annelids to Zoantharians, discover an underwater world of bottom dwelling creatures known as benthos.