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The poster, "The Crowded Coast, Population Trends: 1970-2000," illustrates population change along our nation's coast. Its purpose is to provide updated population data and trends and is intended to help provide insight as to where the greatest population change has occurred in the last few decades. Census data used on this poster was data downloaded from the

Date: December 2004
Contact: Kristen Crossett
For more information and to download as pdf:
http://marineeconomics.noaa.gov/socioeconomics/assessment/population.html#Poster

This summary presents a proposed implementation plan for hydrographic activities that support the navigation safety and improving environmental management components of the Environmental Protection and Maritime Transport Pollution Control in the Gulf of Honduras (GoH) Project—a project funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and administered by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). SP produced Gulf of Honduras Project Executive Summary and developed related Hydrographic Action Plan for Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras to use in their solicitation of project funds from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). Also translated Executive Summary and Action Plan from English to Spanish.

Date: July 2006
Contact: Percy Pacheco
For more information and to download as pdf:
http://www.iho-machc.org/documents/ecctg1_doc.html#A

Gulf of Mexico Alliance:  Governor’s Action Plan for Healthy and Resilient Coasts

The Governors' Action Plan challenges the Gulf of Mexico Alliance to make tangible progress over the next 36 months on several critical issues, including water quality, wetland and coastal conservation, environmental education, characterization of Gulf habitats, and reductions in nutrient inputs, all of which will supplement ongoing recovery efforts across the Gulf region.

Date: March 2006
Contact: Brent Ache
Download: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/gulf/files/files/
GulfActionPlan_Final.pdf
For more information:  http://www.dep.state.fl.us/gulf/default.htm

At the request of the NOS Senior Management Council (SMC) the CORE team coordinated the development of an NOS Social Science Plan (SSP). A Social Science Team (SST) was formed including social scientists from across NOS Line Offices. In consultation with NOS Line Office and NOAA PPBES Program leadership, the members of the SST identified and prioritized social science projects to address relevant issues and information needs. A project database containing a wealth of information on each project was constructed, along with an FTE database to track NOS social science staff time and effort. From the information collected, a plan was written by the SST.  This plan includes descriptions of NOS social science by NOAA program. Additionally, descriptions are provided on the roles that each NOS Program Office plays in each of the NOAA programs.  Volume II includes detailed descriptions on each existing and proposed social science project.

Date: September 2005
Contact: Bob Leeworthy
For more information and to download as pdf:http://marineeconomics.noaa.gov/SSP/Plan_pub.html

Ocean Explorer 2005 Field Season CD-ROM

This CD-ROM contains the expeditions covered during the 2005 field season for Ocean Explorer. It is intended for those that have a slow (or no) Internet connection.

Date:  June 2006
Contact:  Joe Flood
For more information and to download as pdf: http://www8.nos.noaa.gov/oceanex/

Population Trends Along the Coastal United States: 1980-2008

The purpose of the report is to provide recent and projected population trends to coastal managers and communities. This report highlights the importance of coastal areas, and provides an overview of population trends from 1980 to 2003 and projected change in population by 2008. Coastal areas are home to a wealth of natural and economic resources and are the most developed areas in the nation. The narrow fringe comprising 17% of the contiguous land area is home to more than half of the nation's population.  By the year 2008, coastal county population is expected to increase by approximately 7 million.

Date: December 2004
Contact: Kristen Crossett
For more information and to download as pdf:
http://marineeconomics.noaa.gov/socioeconomics/assessment/population.html

Portfields:  Charting a Course for Port Revitalization

This report summarizes progress made during the second year in the Portfields pilots of New Bedford, Tampa and Bellingham. It highlights the Portfields partnership, describes accomplishments, and documents best management practices and innovative strategies that may be transferred to other ports. Special Projects assisted ORR and OCRM in developing an annual report, including a video and interactive DVD, for the Portfields initiative that highlights year 2 program successes. 

Date: November 2005
Contact: Brent Ache
Download: http://brownfields.noaa.gov/pdf/portreport2.pdf
For more information: http://brownfields.noaa.gov/htmls/portfields/
portfields.html

South Wilmington, Delaware Socio-Economic Profile

The NOAA NOS compiled a socioeconomic profile report in partnership with the Delaware Coastal Programs to support the development of a Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) for South Wilmington, Delaware. The report presents a comprehensive socioeconomic snapshot of South Wilmington, using all readily-accessible, current data. The report presents demographic information such as population, education, and household characteristics; information on employment and income for residents and businesses in the area; information on current land use; inventories of residential development and public and social services available in South Wilmington; crime, voting, and vital statistics; and tax assess values for South Wilmington properties. The report does not present trend information nor attempt to interpret or draw conclusions from the data.

Date: November 2005
Contact: Emily Crum
For more information and to download as pdf: http://marineeconomics.noaa.gov/socioeconomics/
assessment/de_samp.html

Major Web Sites

The following is a descriptive list of recent, significant Web site offerings developed by Special Projects working with NOAA or NOS partners (listed alphabetically). This list is not comprehensive, but showcases substantial offerings. Please contact special.projects@noaa.gov if you have any questions about other SP Web offerings.

Coastal and Ocean Resource Economics (CORE) Program

The CORE Program conducts marine-related socioeconomic research for a wide variety of applications and geographic areas. CORE projects include state-of-the-art socioeconomic monitoring in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, the first-ever nationwide estimate of participation rates in marine-related recreation activities, an extensive beach valuation effort in Southern California, and many other research activities.

http://marineeconomics.noaa.gov
Contact: Peter Wiley

Council on Environmental Quality

NOAA asked Special Projects to support the Council of Environmental Quality(CEQ) of the Executive Office of the President in providing technical development of a Web site that provides information on administration activities in ocean policy and management, and more specifically, the Administration's response to the final report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, the U.S. Ocean Action Plan.  An initial version of this Web site was produced in the spring of 2004.

http://ocean.ceq.gov/
Contact:  Davida Remer

Estuarine Bathymetry Data Set

The NOS Estuarine Bathymetry data set Web site is a digital raster compilation of NOS' hydrographic survey data for selected U.S. estuaries. These data provide an important piece of the mapping puzzle to those managing our Nation's valuable estuarine resources. Although bathymetric data are most commonly used to create nautical charts, they are a crucial component in many fields of marine research, and a useful enhancement for 2D and 3D mapping.

http://estuarinebathymetry.noaa.gov/
Contact: Robby Wilson

International Hydrographic Organization: MesoAmerican and Caribbean Sea Hydrographic Commission

In support of NOAA's Office of Coast Survey (OCS), SP wrote text, created graphics, and translated Web pages to Spanish for the Mesoamerican-Caribbean Sea Hydrographic Commission (MACHC) Web site.  This effort includes the re-design of the site.

http://www.iho-machc.org/
Contact: John Hayes

Marine Debris Program

NOAA's Marine Debris (MD) Program is part of the NOAA Ecosystem Goal.  The program is based in NOS's Office of Response and Restoration (ORR). ORR senior management asked SP to assist the MD program in developing a Web site for the program.  SP staff provided support in planning, graphic arts and design, writing styles, content organization, image galleries, and development of a prototype site.  All content was developed by the MD program and program partners. After the initial site was completed, SP trained program staff so that they can update and maintain the site independently.

http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/
Contact:  Georgia Shao

Marine Managed Area Inventory Section of MPA.GOV

This section of the MPA.GOV Web site disseminates Marine Managed Areas (MMA) Inventory data to the public through an interactive interface. Features include interactive mapping, A-Z listings, custom query tool, canned queries, and data download.

http://mpa.gov/inventory/about_inventory.html
Contact:  Chris Clement

As part of the NOAA 200th anniversary celebration, a Web site was developed to provide a centralized location for NOAA to communicate to the public, NOAA employees, and others about agency activities. The site is organized around the past, present, and future time periods, with content that highlights the science, service, and stewardship activities of all facets of NOAA. 

Special Projects led the technical and content development of the Web site. Core content on the site includes 100 Foundation, Transformation, Vision articles that tell the past, present, and future stories of NOAA activities.  Approximately 50 magazine-style Feature Stories will be posted on the site throughout 2007.  Content also includes 12 collections, which are composed of five to 20 objects with significance to NOAA’s history.  The site features “Top Tens,” which include NOAA's most notable History Makers, Breakthroughs, Historic Events, and Foundation Data Sets, as nominated by NOAA staff and selected by a NOAA committee.

http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/
Contact: Emily Crum

NOAA Coastal Brownfields

This Web site explains NOAA’s involvement in the coastal brownfields restoration initiative and provides detailed information about activities that are currently underway within NOAA. It includes specific material about the recent Portfields effort, a NOAA led federal interagency effort that focuses on the redevelopment of brownfields in port and harbor areas, with emphasis on development of environmentally sound port facilities.

http://brownfields.noaa.gov
Contact: Alison Hammer

NOAA's Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS)

CoRIS is a NOAA-level Web site that is designed to provide a single access point to all information and data arising from NOAAs Coral Reef Initiative. This site is a cooperative effort. Partners are NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)/National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), the NOAA Central Library, and the NOAA Coral Reef Program Office (CRPO). The CoRIS project was conceived in late FY 2001, and formally launched in late FY 2002. Now with four years of development experience, the CoRIS Web site is fully mature. The glossary is consistently the most popular offering on the site.

http://coris.noaa.gov
Contact:  Davida Remer

NOAA Restoration Day

SP leads the planning and development of an on-going, NOAA-wide partnership effort to organize and conduct an annual NOAA Restoration Day event. This event is a NOAA volunteer activity focused on restoring a portion of the Chesapeake Bay through a variety of hands-on, in the field coastal restoration activities. This Web site helps to coordinate and raise awareness about this annual NOAA event.

http://restorationday.noaa.gov
Contact: Alison Hammer

NOAA Restoration Portal: References Section

The NOAA References section of the recently revised NOAA Restoration Portal serves as a gateway to more detailed NOAA restoration publications, Web sites, audiovisual materials, and case studies. It is organized around four thematic areas and utilizes advanced technology to access the NOAA Library Catalog database and dynamically link to a variety of NOAA restoration resources.

The new Portal (http://habitat.noaa.gov/restoration/) expands upon the original Portal to provide comprehensive information about restoration techniques; NOAA restoration programs, projects, activities; and access to NOAA restoration references. NOAA Restoration activities are part of the NOAA Habitat Program. This site is a partnership between SP, NOS/ORR, NMFS/Restoration Center, and the NOAA Central Library.

http://www.restoration.noaa.gov
Contact: Alison Hammer

National Ocean Service

This is the official Web site of NOS. The primary audience is secondary users of NOS products including those with an interest in ocean and coastal information, non-governmental organizations, state resource managers, and NOAA partners. The site is organized around 23 science, technology, and public service topics that are the foundation of NOS work. The site also includes: educational tutorials; news features; line and staff office descriptions; NOS publications; outreach materials; Data Explorer; the NOS Strategic Plan; and annotated NOS Web sites.

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/
Contact: Emily Crum

NOS Data Explorer

Data Explorer is a portal for discovering NOS spatial data collections. Site includes a variety of search capabilities including: by geographic extent, keyword, topic, or browse through all of the available metadata records in the index.

http://nosdataexplorer.noaa.gov
Contact: Robb Wright

National Status and Trends (NS&T)

The NS&T Web site provides the user with different Web-based data analysis and display tools and protocols to improve up-to date data retrieval, user-friendly mapping, analysis, assessments, comparative studies, and visualization capabilities for users with different levels of data and analysis needs on the three Major NS&T Projects: Benthic Surveillance, Mussel Watch, and Bioeffect Assessments (regional/local information).  The development of this Web site is being carried out because of a partnership among the National Ocean Service/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and Special Projects.

http://nsandt.noaa.gov
Contact: Percy Pacheco

Ocean Explorer

NOAA Ocean Explorer is an educational Web offering for all who wish to learn about, discover, and virtually explore the ocean realm. It provides public access to current information on a series of NOAA scientific and educational explorations and activities in the marine environment. The site provides a platform to follow explorations in near real-time, learn about exploration technologies, observe remote marine flora and fauna in the colorful multimedia gallery, read about NOAAs 200-year history of ocean exploration, and discover additional NOAA resources in a virtual library.

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/
Contact:  Joe Flood

Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management Web Site Redesign

This site is the official site of the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management.  SP staff collaborated with OCRM on an overall redesign of the site which was launched in FY06. SP staff will continue to support OCRM staff with on going training and technical support when necessary.

http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/
Contact: Jennifer Coletta

Ship Tracker Web Site

The Ship Tracker Web site provides near real-time positioning for all NOAA ships.  A Google Maps version of Ship Tracker is also available to the public. The site shows information about the location, present and past, of NOAA's ships. Ship location and the conditions where the ship was located are maintained on this Web Site for one year.

http://shiptracker.noaa.gov
Contact: Robb Wright

Spatial Trends in Coastal Socioeconomics (STICS)

The STICS Web Site offers, in one easy-to-use application, time series geo-referenced demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau for the last four decadal censuses (1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000) and from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (1969 - 2000). Analysis of income and employment data from this information provides useful insight into the socioeconomic trends of the nation’s rapidly developing coastal regions. It also helps coastal managers make more informed decisions regarding program priorities and delivery of services.

http://stics.noaa.gov
Contact: Percy Pacheco