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Home | Research Institutions |
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Information for universities, institutes, and other organizations focused on ocean and coastal issues. |
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Assessing Risk to Ecological Resources Assessing hazardous waste sites that threaten NOAA's trust resources.
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Responding to Oil Spills Information to support effective and safe responses to oil spills in the coastal environment.
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Protecting Coastal Resources Evaluating pollutants in the coastal environment and determining remediation measures to protect coastal resources from further harm caused by those pollutants.
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Supporting Local and Regional Decision-Making Working to support community decisions that promote sustainable uses of coastal resources.
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Restoration Projects Summarizes restoration projects conducted by NOAA and our partners in order to recover natural resources.
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Planning for Environmental Emergencies Information to help contingency planners protect regions against oil and chemical spills.
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Watershed Database & Mapping Projects NOAA's Assessment and Restoration Division has developed numerous Watershed Database and Mapping Projects. Because each project is unique, with its own characteristics, their components vary. But each builds upon a standard database structure and a data delivery application (Query Manager). Most include GIS data as well.
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Arctic Activities It is estimated that by 2020-2030 the Arctic Ocean will be free of multi-year ice in the summer, increasing opportunities for maritime transportation, tourism, oil and gas exploration. Along with this comes a greater possibility of spills and damage to the environment. (posted: May 1, 2009) |
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Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) The Coastal Response Research Center is focused on developing new approaches to spill response and restoration in marine and estuarine environments through research and synthesis of information. |
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