NOAA - Ecosystem Goal Team - To protect, restore and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach to management

Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force Releases Interim Framework

On December 14^th 2009, the White House Council on Environmental Quality released the new Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning. The Interim Framework includes a number of important provisions that would significantly overhaul the Federal Government's approach to coastal and marine planning. >> read more

NOAA Vents Program Celebrates 25 Years of Success

The NOAA Vents Program at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, marking a quarter century of research, discoveries, and technological innovations in some of the oceans most interesting depths. >> read more

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