National Ocean Service (NOS) Homepage

NOAA's Ocean portal page

NOS Organizational Components:

Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS)

• Great Lakes Online
• Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS)
• Tides Online
• National Water Level Program (NWLP) and the National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON)

Coastal Services Center (CSC)

• Coastal Remote Sensing Program
• Shoreline Data
• Training Institute
• GIS Integration and Development Program
• Ecological Applications
• Human Dimensions Program
• Pacific Services Center

International Program Office

Management and Budget Office

• Special Projects
• Planning and Strategy Development
• Database and Software Engineering
• GIS Development
• Socioeconomic Monitoring and Analysis
• Web Site Design, Development and Support
• Coastal Resource Assessment
• State of the Coast Web Site (Retired Essays)
• Sustainable Seas Expeditions (Retired Data)

National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)

• Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research
• Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research
• Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment
• National Status and Trends Program
• Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research
• Hollings Marine Laboratory (Charleston, S.C.)

National Geodetic Survey (NGS)

• Aeronautical Survey Program
• CORS - Continuously Operating Reference Station for GPS
• Federal Base Network Surveys
• Height Modernization
• National Shoreline
• NGS Products and Services
• NGS State Geodetic Advisors

National Aeronautical Charting Office (NACO) - Transferred to FAA

Office of Coast Survey (OCS)

• Research and Development Laboratory
• NOS Nautical Charts and Related Products Price List
• Hydrology and Hydrographc Surveys
• Marine Chart Division
• Navigation Services Division

NOAA's Charting and Geodesy portal page

Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM)

• National Coastal Zone Management Program
• Coastal Zone Management Act
• Coral Reef Conservation Program
• National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS)
• Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program
• National Marine Protected Areas Center
• Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program

NOAA's Coasts portal page

National Marine Sanctuaries

• Sanctuary Science

Sanctuaries:

• Channel Islands - California
• Cordell Bank - California
• Fagatele Bay - American Samoa
• Florida Keys - Florida
• Flower Garden Banks - Texas
• Grays Reef - Georgia
• Gulf of the Farallones - California
• Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale - Hawaii
• Monitor - North Carolina
• Monterey Bay - California
• Olympic Coast - Washington
• Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument - Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
• Stellwagen Bank - Massachusetts
• Thunder Bay - Michigan

Office of Response and Restoration (ORR)

• Emergency Response
• Pollutants in the Environment
• Serving Communities
• Natural Resource Restoration
• Damage Assessment, Remediation and Restoration Program
• Damage Assessment, Remediation and Restoration Center Northeast Region
• Damage Assessment, Remediation and Restoration Center Southeast Region
• Damage Assessment, Remediation and Restoration Center Great Lakes Region
• Damage Assessment, Remediation and Restoration Center Pacific Region
• Rapid Assessment Program

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