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- Reducing Marine Debris by Targeting Youth and Teenage Litterers
- A Decade of Data to Combat Derelict Traps in Florida
- A Rising Concern: Reducing Balloon Debris through Social Marketing
- A Whale of a Tale: Hands-on Learning about Marine Debris Impacts on Wildlife
- Addressing Barriers to Reducing Plastic Marine Debris in Cleveland, Ohio
- California Teachers Bring Home Lessons on Plastic Marine Debris
- Citizen Scientists Research and Prevent Microplastics in Florida
- Combating Land-Based Marine Debris from the Rio Grande Valley
- Creating a Social Norm: A Student-Designed Program to Reduce Marine Debris
- Derelict Fishing Gear Prevention and Removal Best Practices
- Developing Marine Debris Curriculum in Oregon
- Educating Fishers to Reduce Derelict Gear in Massachusetts
- Educating Recreational Boaters and Improving Crab Trap Float Riggings to Reduce Derelict Fishing Gear
- Education and Action: A One-Two Punch for Reducing Marine Debris on the Washington Coast
- Estimating Abundance of Derelict Lobster Pots in New England Using Side-Scan Sonar
- Fishing for Energy
- From Shore to State House
- Gyre: The Plastic Ocean Exhibit
- Hands-On Marine Debris Education in the Gulf of Maine
- Hudson Estuary Litter Prevention (HELP): Marine Debris Education and Prevention in New York City
- Inspire Keiki to Reduce their Local Marine Debris Footprint
- Inspiring Community Stewardship on Oahu
- Lower Laguna Madre Bilingual Marine Debris Awareness
- Marine Debris Creative Advocacy Competition
- Marine Debris Prevention through Science Literacy
- Marine Debris Tracker
- Mystic Aquarium: Teens Take Initiative
- Preventing Debris and Crab Trap Loss in New Jersey with the WeCrab Project
- Preventing Debris with the Washed Ashore Project
- Preventing Derelict Fishing Gear Through Recreational Boater Education
- Preventing Derelict Nets and Crab Pots in the Puget Sound through Targeted Outreach Programs
- Pride in Our Seas, Pride in Ourselves: Preventing Land-Based Sources of Marine Debris in the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Project SORT: Hands on Marine Debris Education in the Southeast
- Promoting Community Leadership in Baltimore to Prevent Urban Debris
- Protectores de Cuencas "Think Before you Drop it"
- ReThink Disposable: Preventing Marine Debris at the Sour
- Salinas River to the Sea Litter Program
- Salt Marsh Soldiers Tackle Marine Debris in Coastal Georgia
- Santa Barbara's Students Marine Debris, the Ocean, & Me
- Ship Island Excursion South Mississippi Education and Waste Reduction
- Stewards Targeting Ocean Problems (S.T.O.P): Zero Waste and Awareness Campaign on the Kenai Peninsula and Anchorage, Alaska
- Tackling Ghost Nets in Lake Superior
- Talking Trash and Taking Action on Marine Debris
- Talking Trash for Clean Oceans
- The Zero Litter Campaign
- Tobacco-Free Beaches Public Awareness Campaign
- Trash Pollution Solutions: A Community-Based Approach for Baltimore City
- USF Empowers a Community to Prevent Marine Debris
- Watershed Approach in Erie, Pennsylvania, to Rid the Seas of Marine Debris
- Removal
- AquaDebris: Site Restoration and Habitat Recovery Assessment of Shellfish Aquaculture in North Carolina
- Belle Isle Removal Project
- Building a Self-Sustaining Fishermen-Led Gear Recovery Program in California
- Cape May and Beyond: Ghost Crab Pot Removal in the Delaware Bay, Cape May Reef, and Southern Coastal New Jersey Bays
- Central Long Island Sound Derelict Lobster Gear Assessment, Removal, and Prevention
- Cleanup and Retrieval of Derelict Crab Pots in Gastineau Channel
- Coastal Cleanup Corporation Helps Sea Turtles Nest
- Community Engagement in Marine Debris Removal, Coastal Conservation, and Recycling in Loiza, Puerto Rico
- Coral Bay Community Council Removes Derelict Vessels in USVI
- Coral Reef Protection in Puerto Rico
- Cornell Cooperative Extension Addresses Derelict Lobster Traps in Long Island Sound
- Cultivating Santa Barbara Channel Stewards
- Debris Removal at Cleveland Metroparks Euclid Beach Park
- Debris Removal to Establish Living Shoreline in Camden, NJ
- Derelict Crab Pot Removal and Prevention in Southern New Jersey
- Derelict Crab Trap Removal in the Barataria, Terrebonne, and Pontchartrain Basins
- Derelict Fishing Net Removal in the Puget Sound
- Derelict Vessel Removal and Habitat Restoration in Bayou La Batre
- Derelict Vessel Removal in Florida's Palm Beach County
- Developing a Fishermen-led Crab Pot Recovery Program in North Carolina
- Dog River Derelict Vessel Removal
- Fishermen-led Fishing Gear Recovery and Recycling in California
- Fishing for Derelict Lobster Gear in Cape Cod and Massachusetts Bays
- Galveston Bay Habitat Enhancement through Marine Debris Removal
- Grappling the Invisible: Removing Derelict Crab Pots from the Delaware Bay
- Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund removes marine debris from Hawai‘i's Ka‘ū Coast
- Hofstra University Removes Debris from NY Salt Marsh
- Hotspot Debris Removal from the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
- Identification and Retrieval of Derelict Crab Pots to Reduce Bycatch in Barnegat Bay
- Identification and Retrieval of Derelict Crab Pots to Reduce Bycatch in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey: Phase II
- Implementing Trash Traps to Remove Litter in the Anacostia River Watershed in Maryland
- Increasing the Efficiency of Locating and Removing Ghost Nets in the Upper Great Lakes
- Innovative Removal Projects
- Keeping Coasts Sustainable through Cleanups in Hawaii
- Kodiak Marine Debris Removal & Monitoring Project
- Marine Debris Removal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
- Marine Debris Removal on Kaho′olawe
- Moving Toward a Litter-free Mardi Gras in Alabama
- Multi-Island Marine Debris Removal in the State of Hawaii
- Native Community Marine Debris Removal from Bering Sea Shorelines
- Puget Sound Net Removal
- Quileute Tribe Removes Derelict Crab Pots and Develops Recovery Program
- Quinault Tribe Community-Based Derelict Crab Pot Recovery Program
- Recycling North Carolina Derelict Crab Pots into Oyster Reefs
- Reducing Marine Debris in Saipan through a Culture of Recycling
- Removal and Prevention of Abandoned and Derelict Vessels along the Oregon Coast
- Removal of Sunken Derelict Vessels from the Makah Marina at Neah Bay, WA
- Removal of a Derelict Fishing Vessel from the Saipan Lagoon
- Removing Debris from New York's Jamaica Bay
- Removing Debris to Restore Sea Turtle Habitat in Biscayne National Park
- Removing Marine Debris From a Sacred Wiyot Village
- Removing Marine Debris from Shuyak Island in the Gulf of Alaska
- Restoring Critical Habitat in the Bering Sea
- SC Sea Grant Removes Abandoned Vessels in Charleston Harbor
- San Diego Bay Debris Removal Project
- Shipwreck and Debris Removal from Las Croabas, Icacos, and Palominos, Puerto Rico
- Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve Marine Debris Cleanup and Reduction Program
- Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve Marine Debris Cleanup and Reduction Program
- Tsunami Debris Removal in Southeast Alaska
- Tugidak Island Removal Project
- Urban Renewal in an Ecologically Sensitive Rhode Island Estuary
- Using Unmanned Aerial Systems to Inform Marine Debris Removal Strategies and Monitor Habitat Recovery in the Rachel Carson Reserve
- Volunteer-Aided Derelict Blue Crab Trap Removal Program in Alabama
- Working with the National Towboat Network to Remove Large Derelict Gear
- Research
- A Screening-Level Ecological Risk Assessment for Microplastics in Seafood in American Samoa
- Analysis of Microplastics in Chesapeake Bay and Coastal Mid-Atlantic Water Samples
- Assessment of Plastic Marine Debris Export Mechanisms and Risk to Sea Scallop Fisheries of the Mid-Atlantic Bight
- Citizen Science Marine Debris Monitoring in the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
- Citizen Science Marine Debris Monitoring in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
- Citizen Science Marine Debris Monitoring on the Oregon Coast
- Crab Pot Escapement Study Underway in Washington
- Derelict Crab Trap Gear Modifications
- Detecting Microplastics in the Marine Environment
- Ecotoxicological Effects of Microplastic and Sorbed Priority Pollutants in Aquatic Foodchains
- Evaluating Techniques to Reduce Crab Trap Float Loss in South Carolina
- Examining Microplastic Occurrence in the Gut Contents of Sargassum-Associated Juvenile Fishes
- Influence of Environmental Conditions on Contaminants Leaching From, and Sorbing To, Marine Microplastic Debris
- Investigating the Influence of Microplastics (and Microplastics Contaminates) on the Grazing Behavior of Copepods
- Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment Project
- Microplastic Ingestion by the Black Sea Bass, Centropristis striata: An Assessment of Potential Impacts on the Health of an Atlantic Commercial Fish Species
- Minimizing Ghost Crab Pot Fishing in Maryland
- Monitoring Marine Debris in Virginia’s Coastal Zone
- Partner Project Highlights from the MDMAP
- Quantification of Marine Microplastics in the Surface Waters of the Gulf of Alaska
- Quantification of Microplastics and Microfibers on US National Park Beaches
- Quantifying and Characterizing Microplastic Marine Debris Loads in the Mississippi River
- Reducing Bycatch Mortality in Crab Pots in Virgina
- Regional Impact Assessment of Derelict Fishing Gear in the Chesapeake Bay
- Selective Ingestion of Microplastics by Oysters: Exposure Assessment as a Predictive Tool for Assessing the Environmental Risk to Commercially-Important Bivalves
- Status of Marine Debris on U.S. Shorelines
- Using Invasive Mussels as Sentinel Organisms for Monitoring Microplastic Pollution in the Great Lakes: A Case Study
- Economic study shows marine debris costs California residents millions of dollars
- Emergency Response
- Outreach
- 2014 Calendar Available for Download
- 2015 TRASH TREK Challenge: Resources for FIRST LEGO Leaguers
- 2016 Marine Debris Calendar Available for Download
- 2018 Marine Debris Calendar Available for Download
- 2019 Marine Debris Calendar Available for Download
- Annual "Keep The Sea Free of Debris Art Contest!"
- Communicating for a Clean Future: Marine Debris Challenge
- Marine Debris Creative Advocacy Competition
- Prevention
- In Your Region
- Resources
- Activities and Curricula
- Activities
- An Educator's Guide to Marine Debris
- Comprehensive, Web-based Marine Debris STEAMSS Curriculum
- Educator's Guide to Marine Debris in the Southeast and Gulf of Mexico
- From Shore to State House: Marine Debris Undergraduate Curriculum
- Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund Marine Debris Curriculum
- Marine Debris Magnet Craft Activity
- Marine Debris Monitoring Toolkit for Educators
- Marine Debris Unscramble
- NOAA Coloring Book
- Protect Our Oceans: Coloring Book
- Science Literacy Project Standards-Based Curriculum
- Talking Trash and Taking Action
- Turning the Tide on Trash
- Understanding Marine Debris:Games and Activities for Kids of All Ages
- Washed Ashore Integrated Arts Marine Debris Curriculum
- Curricula
- Fact Sheets
- Emergency Response Guides and Regional Action Plans
- Alabama Marine Debris Emergency Response Guide
- Florida Marine Debris Emergency Response Guide
- Georgia Marine Debris Emergency Response Guide
- Hawaii Marine Debris Action Plan
- Louisiana Marine Debris Emergency Response Guide
- Mississippi Marine Debris Emergency Response Guide
- North Carolina Incident Waterway Debris Response Guide
- Oregon Marine Debris Action Plan
- Regional Action Plan
- South Carolina Incident Waterway Debris Response Guide: Comprehensive Guidance Document
- The Great Lakes land-based marine debris action plan
- The Washington Marine Debris Action Plan
- Virginia Marine Debris Emergency Response Guide
- Emergency Response Guide
- Posters and Brochures
- Reports and Technical Memos
- 2016-2020 Strategic Plan
- Accomplishments Report
- An Analysis of Marine Debris in the US
- Assessing Ecological and Economic Effects of Derelict Fishing Gear: A Guiding Framework
- Best Management Practices for Removal of Debris from Wetlands and Other Intertidal Areas
- California Ocean Litter Prevention Strategy
- Detecting Japan Tsunami Marine Debris at Sea: A Synthesis of Efforts and Lessons-Learned
- Development of the Gulf of Mexico Marine Debris Model
- Economic study shows marine debris costs California residents millions of dollars
- Effects of Derelict Fishing Gear in the Chesapeake Bay Assessment Report
- Entanglement of Marine Species in Marine Debris with an Emphasis on Species in the United States
- Florida Marine Debris Reduction Guidance Plan
- Impact of “Ghost Fishing“ via Derelict Fishing Gear
- Laboratory Methods for the Analysis of Microplastics in the Marine Environment
- Marine Debris Emergency Response Planning in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico
- Marine Debris Impacts on Coastal and Benthic Habitats
- Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment: Recommendations for Monitoring Debris Trends in the Marine Environment
- Marine Debris Prevention Projects and Activities in the Republic of Korea and United States
- Marine Debris Program - Programmatic Environmental Assessment
- Marine Debris as a Potential Pathway for Invasive Species
- Modeling Oceanic Transport of Floating Marine Debris
- NOAA Marine Debris Shoreline Survey Field Guide
- NOAA Submerged Derelict Trap Detection Methods Workshop
- Occurrence and Health Effects of Anthropogenic Debris Ingested by Marine Organisms
- Proceedings of the Great Lakes Land-Based Marine Debris Workshop
- Proceedings of the International Research Workshop on Microplastic Marine Debris
- Proceedings of the Japan Tsunami Marine Debris Summary Meeting
- Proceedings of the Second Research Workshop on Microplastic Marine Debris
- Proceedings of the Workshop on At-sea Detection and Removal of Derelict Fishing Gear
- Proceedings of the Workshop on State-level Responses to Abandoned and Derelict Vessels
- Quantification of Microplastics on National Park Beaches
- Reports
- Response to the Misawa Dock on the Washington Coast
- Severe Marine Debris Event Report: Superstorm Sandy
- Technical Proceedings of the Fifth International Marine Debris Conference
- The Honolulu Strategy
- Virginia Marine Debris Reduction Plan
- Technical Memoranda
- Activities and Curricula
- Multimedia
- Videos
- DOC Talks: What We Can Do About Marine Debris
- First Place Winner: 2017 "Communicating for a Clean Future" Ohio PSA Competition
- First Place Winner: 2018 "Communicating for a Clean Future" Ohio PSA Competition
- First Place: “Communicating for a Clean Future” Marine Debris PSA Competition
- NOAA Divers Free Green Sea Turtle from Net in Hawaii
- NOAA Marine Debris Program Removal Webinar, April 2017
- NOAA Marine Debris Program Removal Webinar, April 2017: video transcript
- OceansLIVE! Talking Trash: A Call to Action
- Second Place Winner: 2017 "Communicating for a Clean Future" Ohio PSA Competition
- Second Place Winner: 2018 "Communicating for a Clean Future" Ohio PSA Competition
- Second Place: “Communicating for a Clean Future” Marine Debris PSA Competition
- TRASH TALK Special Feature
- TRASH TALK Webinar for Educators
- TRASH TALK: Impacts of Marine Debris
- TRASH TALK: Marine Debris and Plastics
- TRASH TALK: What Can We Do About Marine Debris?
- TRASH TALK: What is Marine Debris?
- TRASH TALK: What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
- TRASH TALK: Where Does Marine Debris Come From?
- Third Place Winner: 2017 "Communicating for a Clean Future" Ohio PSA Competition
- Third Place Winner: 2018 "Communicating for a Clean Future" Ohio PSA Competition
- Third Place: “Communicating for a Clean Future” Marine Debris PSA Competition
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