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With the rapid rise in the development of Web technologies and climate services across NOAA, there has been an increasing need for greater collaboration regarding NOAA's online climate services. To address this need, NOAA embarked upon an ambitious program to develop a NOAA Climate Services Portal (NCS Portal).
http://www.climate.gov/#climateWatch
The purpose of this site is to highlight the crucial importance of healthy coastal ecosystems to a robust U.S. economy, a safe population, and a sustainable quality of life for coastal residents.
The website offers quick facts and more detailed statistics through fifteen interactive indicator visualizations that provide highlights of what we know about coastal communities, coastal ecosystems, the coastal economy, and how a changing climate might impact the coast. Explore topics such as changes in coastal population from 1970 to 2040, the impact coastal areas have on the U.S. economy, the overall health of the U.S. coast, and the vulnerability of our coasts to long term sea level rise.
http://stateofthecoast.noaa.gov
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Links to NOAA and other agency oil spill-related online resources. Includes links to trajectory maps, news, fact sheets, photos, videos and more.
Speakers/Presenters from NOAA are available to discuss NOAA's response to the Gulf Oil Spill NOAA's External Affairs is here to help you identify NOAA experts who can provide an overview of our role in the response to the Gulf spill. Please fill out a speaker request form at: http://www.externalaffairs.noaa.gov/speaker_request.doc and External Affairs will assist you.
As the nation’s experts on oceanic and atmospheric science and the lead science agency for oil spills, NOAA was on the scene of the Deepwater Horizon incident since the earliest moments of the crisis. Our scientists used data from satellites, aircraft, ships, buoys, and gliders to collect and provide mission-critical information to guide the emergency response and now the long-term restoration of the Gulf Coast. Much of that information is now centralized on this website, including daily weather and oil trajectory forecasts, emergency fisheries closure and reopening maps, mission reports, and much more.
The Deepwater Horizon Archive is designed for many users, from scientists and researchers seeking data to citizens wanting to learn more about the spill’s impact on the Gulf.
Consolidated numbers of collected fish and wildlife that have been reported to the Unified Area Command from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), incident area commands, rehabilitation centers and other authorized sources operating within the Deepwater Horizon/BP incident impact area.
- Which fish species spawn in the Gulf of Mexico?
- Whether there are especially vulnerable coral habitats off the coast of your state?
- Where NOAA has protected fish habitat from damaging fishing gear?
NOAA announces the launch of the enhanced Essential Fish Habitat Mapper and EFH data inventory. The new EFH Mapper now features data on EFH areas protected from fishing, including protections anchoring restrictions, fishing gear modifications, and bans on certain types of gear, among others. Since 2004, NOAA and the regional fishery management councils have protected over 700 million acres of EFH from harmful fishing practices.
http://www.habitat.noaa.gov/efhmapper
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse is an online tool to help us meet that commitment, putting critical information directly into the palms of people’s hands.
This website, produced by NOAA, Department of the Interior, EPA and the U.S. Coast Guard, offers a “one-stop shop” for real-time spill response information. Designed to facilitate communication and coordination among a variety of users — from federal, state and local responders to local community leaders and the general public — the site is fast, user-friendly and continually updated.
http://www.geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse/
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OAA Launches Essential Fish Habitat Mapper v2.0