Ocean and Coastal Highlights

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Shorebird Conservation Workshop - Archive
Shorebirds on the beach
4/20/2016
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Science for Understanding Coastal Storm Impacts - Archive
Sandbags on endangered beach community
1/1/2016
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“Excellence in Partnering” award for deep sea exploration - Archive
“Excellence in Partnering” award for deep sea exploration
1/1/2016
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Protecting Marine Areas: DOI signs MOU with Cuba - Archive
DOI signs MOU with Cuba
1/1/2016
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Conserving One of the Rarest Seabirds in North America - Archive
KIMU-inflight-Tim Melling
12/9/2015
NPS and USFWS are monitoring the Kittlitz’s murrelet to advance our understanding of climate changes occurring in the dynamic Glacier Bay ecosystem.
The Cost of Sea-Level Rise - Archive
New York dock - Heilemann
12/9/2015
More than $40 billion of National Park Service assets, including infrastructure and historic and cultural resources, are at high risk of damage from sea-level rise caused by climate change.
First Offshore Wind! - Archive
BOEM offshore wind turbines
12/9/2015
DOI and BOEM celebrate an historic milestone for America’s first commercial scale offshore wind farm.
Topobathymetric Elevation data - Archive
Topobathymetric Elevation data map
6/24/2015
Seamless elevation data for land and submarine areas is essential for informing risk reduction efforts in coastal regions.
Turtle-Friendly Lighting - Archive
Turtle-Friendly Lighting
6/24/2015
Reducing light pollution along developed shorelines by replacing white lights with amber colored LEDs can reduce disorientation in sea turtle hatchlings
Powerful Mapping Capabilities at your Fingertips - Archive
Marine app map
6/24/2015
This interactive map viewer provides easy-to-understand cartographic representations, 250 coastal and ocean data layers, and a searchable data registry.
Tackling Coastal Challenges Together - Archive
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives logo
6/24/2015
LCC networks provide a forum where entities can come together to consider the larger landscape perspective and collectively find conservation solutions
Can you make it to higher ground? - Archive
Can you make it to higher ground?
6/24/2015
New app developed by USGS helps emergency managers estimate how long it takes to travel on foot out of a tsunami-hazard zone
Taking Down Dams - Archive
Octoraro dam removal
6/24/2015
Studies of dam removal and the resulting river restoration document the effects and will help guide future dam removals
Arctic Bowhead Whales - Archive
Arctic Bowhead Whales
6/24/2015
A special partnership shares understanding of bowhead whales and their role in the Pacific Arctic marine ecosystem
Climate Change Concerns in the Arctic - Archive
Polar Bear on the Ice
9/24/2014
Major potential problems include loss of sea ice, melting permafrost and coastal erosion.

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