NOAA today announced that, on behalf of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program, the agency and other federal partners including the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Office of Naval Research, and NASA have awarded new proposals to support conservation and ecosystem health.
The 5 projects will support the collection of marine biodiversity information in the Central California Current, quantification of impacts of local and regional water condition changes on marine life near estuary mouths in New Hampshire and southern Maine, establishment of a Marine Biodiversity Observing Network for coastal Louisiana, the collection of biodiversity data in the Arctic, and the development of marine biodiversity information in the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast U.S.