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Habitat Identification
The Gulf of Mexico Alliance (GOMA)
brings together participants from past Gulf of Mexico Program habitat teams and issue committees, as well as additional participants with a commitment to addressing the identification and characterization of Gulf Habitats in a Priority Issue Team (PIT).
Description of Identification and Characterization of Gulf Habitats Team:
To improve the management of Gulf habitats, the Alliance proposes to provide public access to a prototype distributed, meta-data driven data management platform and Internet portal that provides a geospatial data viewer and facilitates data downloads of local, state, and federal habitat data in the Gulf region, beginning with seagrass beds. This effort involves an inventory and gap analysis of existing habitat data in the region and Alliance partners working together to standardize and integrate local, state, and federal habitat data, including metadata and to make these data available through a single regional data management portal.
Goal for Identification and Characterization of Gulf Habitats
- ID-1: Create and provide access to interactive habitat maps for priority Gulf of Mexico habitats
For documents supporting the GOMA Habitat ID PIT, membership lists, and notice of upcoming events, follow this link GOMA Gulf Habitat ID (http://www2.nos.noaa.gov/gomex/habitatid/welcome.html).
Contact In the Gulf of Mexico Program Office: Diane Altsman 228-688-7015, altsman.diane@epa.gov.
