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NOS experts recently wrapped up the latest in a series of meetings with Caribbean countries, part of a U.N. program to help develop national-level plans around the region to cut down on marine pollution. 
The head of NOS recently participated in an international summit focused on the many challenges facing coastal cities, such as severe flooding in the aftermath of storms like Hurricane Katrina.
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.
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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