After decades of urbanization, the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission has initiated chloride monitoring in Madison, Wisconsin’s Starkweather Creek.

NOAA is using a vast fish tracking network to predict how Striped Bass and Red Drum movement in Chesapeake Bay changes with the environment.

NOAA will begin funding the University of Hawaiʻi to create a Pacific Reef Research Coordination Institute, which will bring together partners across the Pacific to help corals.

In 2023, Florida's FWC learned that in 2018, Hurricane Michael had effectively wiped out all Suwannee Bass in the Wakulla River. Today, researchers are working hard to bring Suwannee Bass back.

In 2022, the AGFC worked with local and regional partners to restore fish habitats in three lakes in the White River Chain of Lakes.

This Pere Marquette River restoration project combines erosion control and habitat enhancement to improve conditions for fish at two key sites.

As water needs increase, many are left wondering if there truly is enough water to go around for keystone species like salmon and people.

Steelhead travel between rivers and the ocean, but research shows a genetic mutation causes some to remain in freshwater, creating implications for steelhead population restoration.

AI buoys in New Zealand listen for whale distress calls to detect and potentially predict strandings, helping rescuers respond earlier and improve survival.

A global study showed that over the last two decades, lakes have experienced more extreme heatwaves than the atmosphere.

In 2024, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources’ Fisheries Division started working with local partners to restore critical sport fish habitat in Paintsville Lake.

A 2025 study used a habitat suitability index and network analysis to estimate zebra mussel spread in Texas.

The East Fork River Reconnection Project is investing over $20 million to bring a river back to its historic braided and multi-channel shape, aiming to restore salmon populations.

Rocky reefs are being utilized in a Lake Huron bay to improve walleye and whitefish habitat, restoring an ecosystem that was once struggling.

Cooper Mill Creek in Northern California was recently restored, and now scientists are monitoring river conditions to inform adaptive management.

In 2018, Hurricane Michael decimated Florida's Chipola River–the only river in Florida with a reproducing population of shoal bass–was decimated. In the years since, FWC scientists have been working hard to bring shoal bass back from the brink.

The Nature Conservancy has almost completed a restoration project at the headwaters of the Big Darby Creek, Ohio’s most biodiverse river.

The Green Ocean Foundation will restore 18,000 oysters to Dublin Bay, Ireland, this year, a project backed by environmental monitoring and led by community engagement.

Buffalo State University is deploying a new data buoy on Lake Erie, expanding real-time monitoring of waves, weather, water quality, and seiche activity.

In 2023, Zach Moran, Assistant Professor of Fish Science, investigated trends and contributors to bioaccumulation in Alligator Gar in Texas.

The Popponesset Water Stewardship Alliance is conducting water quality and seaweed monitoring to understand ecological changes in the Nantucket Sound.

This year, NOAA’s Mussel Watch Program celebrates forty years of continuous monitoring on US coasts, using bivalves and sediments to track chemical contamination.

Real-time buoy monitoring tracks nutrients, stratification, and harmful algal blooms to guide management of Iowa’s Great Lakes.

A non-profit on Nantucket Sound is tracking and researching why supposedly stingless jellyfish are staging, and why their numbers are increasing.

Across the Portuguese Azores Islands, the Blue Azores Program is using scientific data and community input to implement the North Atlantic’s largest marine protected area.