NOAA today announced a 10-year agreement with the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography to improve how unmanned systems are used to collect ocean observations and support NOAA’s operational capabilities. NOAA also noted that the agreement will help meet objectives of the Commercial Engagement Through Ocean Technology Act of 2018, including coordination of research [...]
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W. Coast Ocean Alliance Releases Tribal Engagement Guidance Document
The West Coast Ocean Alliance today announced its Tribal Caucus’ release of “Guidance and Responsibilities for Effective Tribal Consultation, Communication, and Engagement: A Guide for Agencies Working with West Coast Tribes on Ocean & Coastal Issues.” The guidance includes principles for consultation and best practices for consultation that address early and frequent communication, appropriate representation, understanding and respecting [...]
NOAA Announces Cloud and Data Strategies
NOAA today announced the release of Cloud and Data strategies that the agency called “integral to…dramatically expand[ing] emerging science and technology that will drive innovation and guide transformative advancements in NOAA’s science, products and services.” NOAA said that the Data strategy will help improve the management and overall value of the agency’s data, noting that it codifies existing [...]
Coast Guard Reopens Comment Period on Alaskan Arctic Coast PARS
In order to “provide adequate opportunity for public meetings in impacted Arctic communities, given recent COVID–19 impacts to travel,” the Coast Guard today announced that it is reopening the comment period through Sept. 30, 2021 on its preparation of an Alaskan Arctic Coast Port Access Route Study to evaluate the need for establishing vessel routing measures. The comment [...]
BOEM Announces Funding Award for Ocean Sustainability Projects
In collaboration with the National Science Foundation and 16 international partners and through the Belmont Forum, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today announced the award of funding for two 3-year projects to study multiple uses of the oceans, with a focus on identifying pathways toward responsible development and minimizing conflicts. The projects – “An Assessment Framework for [...]
BOEM Announces Completion of Paleocultural Landscapes Project
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today announced the completion of a 6-year study to help establish a methodology for better locating, identifying, and understanding ancient sites where indigenous people may have been present in federal waters. BOEM notes that the study results, which include best practices to improve the effectiveness of tribal engagement and [...]
NMFS Seeks Comments on IUU Fishing, Bycatch, and Shark Fishing
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service today announced that it is seeking information by Thursday, Dec. 31 regarding nations whose vessels are engaged in illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing, bycatch of protected living marine resources, and/or fishing activities in waters beyond any national jurisdiction that target or incidentally catch sharks. The information is being sought pursuant to the High [...]
Select Committee on Climate Crisis Majority Staff Releases Action Plan
The U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Majority Staff today released a report on “Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America.” The 547-page report features 12 pillars, including one to “Protect and Restore America’s Lands, Waters, Ocean, and Wildlife” that includes [...]
USCG Seeks Comments on Northern NY Bight Port Access Route Study
The U.S. Coast Guard today announced that it is seeking comments by Friday, Aug. 28 on its efforts to conduct a Port Access Route Study to evaluate the adequacy of existing vessel routing measures and whether additional vessel routing measures are necessary for port approaches to New York and New Jersey and international and domestic transit areas in [...]
USCG Seeks Comments on Possible U.S. Atl. Coast Shipping Safety Fairways
The Coast Guard today announced that it is seeking comments by Tuesday, Aug. 18 on the possible establishment of 9 shipping safety fairways along the U.S. Atlantic Coast that were identified in the Atlantic Coast Port Access Route Study in order to “protect maritime commerce and safe navigation amidst extensive offshore development on the Atlantic Coast.” The announcement notes [...]
