Rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and unsustainable coastal zone development
pose serious threats to growing coastal communities. Human actions, such as shoreline …

This study asked NOAA program offices to determine which areas of ocean (nearshore and
offshore) and Great Lakes they needed mapped on a near-term, mid-term, and long-term …

The seafloor mapping prioritization results described in this report are already being used by
NOAA to focus planned seafloor mapping missions. Furthermore, the outcomes from this …

NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) utilizes benthic mapping data on coral
reef ecosystems to support a diversity of science-based management decisions. To …

State and provincial governments, federal governments, academia, tribes and First Nations,
and other stakeholders from both the US and Canada all have mapping interests across …

This report and interactive online maps provide a critical spatial framework for
understanding shallow coral reef mapping priorities and data needs of the Main Hawaiian …

Rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and unsustainable coastal zone development
pose serious threats to growing coastal communities. Human actions, such as shoreline …

A vast area of the Gulf of Mexico's Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities (MDBC) was
affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Efficiently implementing restoration and …