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Welcome to the National Marine Sanctuaries web site. Here you'll discover the marine life and extraordinary habitats that make up your nation's marine sanctuaries and our continuing efforts to conserve these ocean and coastal treasures.
Dolphins The Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary was established in 1989 to protect and preserve the extraordinary marine ecosystem surrounding the Cordell Bank. Surrounded by soft sediments of the continental shelf seafloor, Cordell Bank emerges with a rocky habitat, providing home to colorful and abundant invertebrates, algae, and fishes. The productive waters attract migratory seabirds and marine mammals from all around the Pacific Ocean to feed in this dynamic food web.

SANCTUARY CALENDAR OF EVENTS


SANCTUARY NEWS

Proposed Sanctuary Expansion Soliciting
Public Comment until March 1, 2013

Educators: Apply for Teacher at Sea Experience 2013

40 years of National Marine Sanctuaries: Top 40 Accomplishments

Sanctuary sponsors student film competition at San Francisco Ocean Film Festival - call for entries open!

Winged Ambassadors Curriculum released: Ocean Literacy through the eyes of Albatross

Vessel Working Group makes recommendations on how to reduce impact to whales

Emergency Response Working group makes recommendation on oil spill response technologies

NOAA Responds to Shipstrikes Petition

Other Sanctuary News...

Cordell Bank Video - A Sound Investment
Meet the animal that truly is the cash crop for the ocean waters within Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Click here for a downloadable video. Click here to view a high resolution version on YouTube. This hand-drawn short film was created by Drew Christie.


Cordell Bank E-mail News

Join the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary list serve! Sign up to get updates on sanctuary events. To subscribe, send an e-mail to requests@willamette.nos.noaa.gov and put the following in the subject line exactly as it appears here: subscribe cordellbank

Or if you use a non-browser based e-mail program, simply click here.

Main Cordell Bank map of the sanctuary See Larger Map

See More Maps of Cordell Bank
Explore
Discover some of the marine life that can be found in Cordell Bank.
Learn
Learn five things you can do to thank the ocean.
Tune In
Listen to the Ocean Currents Sanctuary Radio Program!

Have Google Earth on your computer?

Turn on the Ocean Layer and navigate "fly to" Cordell Bank to see our stories (You'll need Google Earth version 5.0 or higher)


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Meet Our Birds

Visit the birds of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary! Take a virtual pelagic trip on the California Current by clicking on the image.
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Who Lives on Cordell Bank?

The waters of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary are home to thousands of plants and animals, from microscopic plankton to the great whales. Learn about them by taking a virtual tour!
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