The Northeast Regional Ocean Council (NROC) today announced that it will hold its Fall 2019 meeting in Portsmouth, NH on Monday, Dec. 16. Additional information including an agenda and meeting materials will be posted online when available. NROC is a regional ocean partnership formed in 2005 by the Governors of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and [...]
Archive | September, 2019
IPCC Approves Report on Ocean, U.S. Congressional Resolutions Introduced
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently presented a Summary for Policymakers of the “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate” that was approved by the 195 IPCC member governments on Tuesday, Sept. 24. The report addresses the impacts of a changing climate on the ocean and cryosphere (frozen components of the Earth system) by focusing [...]
East Coast Marine Life Program Renewed for 5 Years
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service today announced the renewal of the Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS) for an additional five years through 2023. AMAPPS, which is funded primarily by NOAA, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Navy, aims to develop models and tools to provide distribution patterns and density estimates by [...]
West Coast Ocean Alliance Releases Materials for December Meeting
The West Coast Ocean Alliance recently released additional information on its upcoming annual meeting, to be held Dec. 3-4 in Tacoma, WA. Day 1 will include a West Coast ocean data public workshop, while Day 2 will feature the West Coast Ocean Alliance public meeting. The meetings will include federal, state, and tribal government officials and technical experts for [...]
NMFS Identifies 3 Nations for IUU Fishing Activities
In a report released to Congress last month on the “2019 Improving International Fisheries Management Report to Congress,” the National Marine Fisheries Service identified Mexico, Ecuador, and South Korea for reported illegal, unreported or unregulated (IUU) fishing activities. NMFS noted that IUU fishing activities “damage our economy, hurt fishermen who play by the rules, threaten global food [...]
U.S. Arctic Research Commission to Hold Public Meeting
The U.S. Arctic Research Commission has announced that it will hold a public meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland on Wednesday, Oct. 9. The agenda includes Commissioner and staff reports and discussions and presentations regarding Arctic research activities, with a focus on the Ryder expedition, Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement, recent impacts to and the current status of research in Alaska, the [...]
BOEM Publishes 2019 Issue of Ocean Science
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has published the 2019 edition of the agency’s Ocean Science publication, which address topics including acoustic research and developments in marine acoustics, using acoustics as a tool to study biological and physical phenomena in the ocean, verifying the physical qualities of industrial sound sources, and understanding the impacts of noise on [...]
