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Organization

1planet1ocean

1planet1ocean, a project of The Ocean Foundation, is a nonprofit organization founded to explore, restore and sustain the oceans through strong international partnerships, offering solutions to the problems our oceans face. The ocean once stood as a forbidding, impenetrable divide ...

Organization Type

Policy or Management

Project

Apalachicola Bay Benthic Mapping

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and the NOAA Coastal Services Center are working together to map benthic habitats within Apalachicola Bay using a combination of traditional benthic sampling, sediment profiling imagery (SPI) and single-beam acoustics. Fieldwork was done ...

Project

Aquatic Nuisance Species: Assessing the Potential of Nuisance Jellyfish Predation on the Eggs and Larvae of Red Drum and Red Snapper in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Objectives are:
1) Quantify the abundance and distribution of potential gelatinous predators and their fish egg and larval prey during the period of peak spawning of each prey species;
2) Determine experimentally, using large in situ mesocosm enclosures, species-specific predation ...

Project

Caribbean Basins, Tectonics, and Hydrocarbons, Phase II

The goal of the CBTH study is to create a GIS-based digital and atlas synthesis of available seismic and well data to define the regional hydrocarbon potential of the unexplored Caribbean region (area outlined in yellow on the map) and ...

Project Status

Project complete

Geological Feature

Casey Key

From: DRelocation.com, 2003; Caseykey-realestate.com, 2003. Casey Key is a barrier island located on the West Coast of Florida about 15 miles south of Sarasota. It stretches from Siesta Key on the north to the Island of Venice at the southern ...

Geological Feature Type

Island

Geological Feature

Cayos de la Leña

From: Wotzkow & Casañas, 2004; Cuba Map & Maps of Cuba, 2004 The Cayos de la Leña are part of the Arrecifes Colorados, located along the northwest coast of the province of Pinar del Río, Cuba. Until the early 1980s ...

Geological Feature Type

Island

Organization

Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research

The Center is organized into three National Ocean Service (NOS) teams and three National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) teams conducting research on coastal and estuarine ecology, fishery productivity and protected species conservation. Ecological research is directed at five types of ...

Organization Type

Marine Research Center or Laboratory

Project

Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard Version III

Executive Summary

Coastal and marine planners and managers are faced with a complex environment in which to make difficult decisions about habitat conservation and resource management. Given this complexity and recognizing the vastness of the marine environment for which the ...

Organization

Coastal Studies Group

Coastal scientists at the Bureau of Economic Geology conduct research in Texas and around the world. The Bureau gained international recognition in the 1970's by using depositional systems concepts to map depositional environments of the coastal plain sediments of Texas ...

Organization Type

Marine Research Center or Laboratory

Person

Dennis Brezina

Soil Survey Project Leader I am the Soil Survey Project Leader with the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly the Soil Conservation Service). I am working primarily on the Soil Survey of Kenedy and Kleberg Counties in Texas ...

Organizations

Natural Resources Conservation Service