A creek, a causeway, and a salt marsh on Sapelo Island, Georgia – the state’s fourth-largest barrier island and one of its most pristine – are revealing much to scientists, policy makers, and regulatory authorities about salt-marsh ecology....

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The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world ocean basins.  More

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The Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) invites customers to participate in an American Customer Satisfaction Index Survey. Your participation will help CO-OPS improve its water level and tidal current products and customer services....

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Drinking seawater can be deadly to humans.  More

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On June 18, scores of NOAA employees and partners participated in the sixth annual NOAA Restoration Day at sites in Maryland and Virginia....

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Marine protected areas span a range of habitats, including the open ocean, coastal areas, inter-tidal zones, estuaries, and the Great Lakes. More

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The Integrated Ocean Observing System, or IOOS, is a coordinated network of people and technology that work together to compile and distribute data on our coastal waters, Great Lakes, and oceans.  More

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Many of metropolitan San Francisco’s eight million people are not aware that NOAA’s Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary surrounds a unique island chain and wildly beautiful mainland shores just beyond the Golden Gate....

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El NiÑ o and La NiÑ a are complex weather patterns resulting from variations in ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific.  More

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Kelp forests provide food and shelter for thousands of species.  More

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