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The
NOS Marine Forensics Program is called upon to analyze evidence in 85 percent
of NOAA Fisheries cases that require scientific analysis. Read about their latest
case.
Channel
Islands National Marine Sanctuary staff, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the
shipping industry are working together to
keep ships from colliding with blue whales in the busy Santa Barbara
Channel shipping lane.
A new
map of shallow-water seabed habitats along the Texas Coastal Bend
joins a growing list of mapped coastal regions providing critical data
about the condition of underwater vegetation around the nation.
Researchers
are using sophisticated echo sounder equipment to create a three-dimensional
map of the Arctic sea floor north of Alaska.
The
National Geodetic Survey is measuring
the gravity field of the earth, part of an ambitious program to provide
a better, faster, and less-expensive way to acquire accurate elevations
for the nation.
Our challenge is to manage our vast ocean and coastal resources in the face of mounting problems...
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Visit the Office of Coast Survey for nautical charts in various formats.
Learn about coastal population trends between 1980 and 2003 and projected by 2008.
Get tide levels around the U.S. at Tides
Online.
What's New
Check
out Making Waves, a new weekly podcast from
NOS
A new
guidebook written by NOAA and several parter agencies is out from the
International Union for Conservation of Nature. The guide is a how-to book
to create protected marine area networks that work.
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