coastal monitoring News
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EPA Awards $10 Million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grant for Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency today announced it has awarded a $10 million five-year grant to Central Michigan University to continue implementation of EPA's Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program. Central Michigan University’s project team includes SUNY College at Brockport and other institutions and agencies. The project team will work on coastal wetlands monitoring ...
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Brazil harnesses space tech to monitor deforestation
Brazil will launch a satellite in 2011 to monitor deforestation and urban expansion around the world, it has been announced. Amazônia-1 will carry a UK-made high resolution camera. The United Kingdom—Brazil collaboration was announced last week (14 July) at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Progress in Science. It is part of the continuing UK—Brazil Partnership in Science and ...
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EPA Awards Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grant to Central Michigan University to Monitor Coastal Wetlands
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency today announced that Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, has received a $10 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to monitor coastal wetlands around the Great Lakes basin over the next five years. This project expands an existing GLRI grant to the university for Great Lakes wetlands monitoring. “This new Great Lakes ...
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Ocean-Climate Links Central to $97.7 Million Research Contract
WASHINGTON, DC, August 23, 2007 (ENS) - 'No longer will ocean exploration and research be limited to scientists. Everyone with a connection to the web, including students, teachers, decisionmakers and the general public, will be able to have access to these undersea networks, enthused Mark Abbott today. As dean of Oregon State University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Abbott is ...
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Sensors in Space Allow Daily Coastal Water Quality Monitoring
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, August 31, 2007 (ENS) - Using data from instruments aboard two NASA satellites, Florida researchers have created a way to map the fleeting changes in coastal water quality from space - something that has long evaded researchers and coastal managers relying only on ground-based measurements. This information has direct application for resource managers working on ...
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Pallone introduces bill to create living shorelines grant program
Today, Rep. Frank Pallone (NJ-06) introduced the Living Shorelines Act, which creates a grant program to assist states, localities, and other organizations in constructing and monitoring living shorelines projects along their coastlines. Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE) commends Rep. Pallone for his continued leadership on coastal restoration and especially living shorelines. Living ...
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Health Concerns Close Record Number of U.S. Beaches in 2006
WASHINGTON, DC, August 7 2007 (ENS) – Across the United States, beach water was unsafe for swimming a record number of days in 2006, according to the annual beach water quality report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC. Maryland's Hacks Point Beach and New Jersey's Beachwood Beach West were the two dirtiest U.S. beaches last year, the report shows. Sixty percent of ...
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Audubon Scientists Find Gulf Birds and Oil Too Close for Comfort - Residual Risks at Six Months Highlight Urgency of Monitoring and Restoration
NEW YORK - Residual oil and chemicals from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster pose substantial ongoing risks to birds that breed or nest along hard-hit areas of the Louisiana coast, according to new National Audubon Society field surveys. Audubon science teams found plentiful birds that appeared both resilient and loyal to their normal habitats as the tragedy's six-month anniversary approached. But ...
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EPA grant helps Rhode Islanders enjoy safe beaches
With the summer beach season in high gear, EPA’s New England Administrator Robert Varney has announced a grant of $209,650 to the Rhode Island Department of Health to improve and expand water quality monitoring and notification at the state’s public salt water beaches. 'Rhode Island's beaches are one of our greatest resources, and improving the water quality will ensure that they are available ...
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Three coastal Maine towns stem boat pollution with no discharge area designation - EPA also provides US$264k for beach water quality monitoring in Maine
The coastal waters of Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, and Wells, Maine will be protected as a “No Discharge Area,” where discharges of treated and untreated boat sewage would be prohibited. EPA also announced a grant of US$264,567 to help support the Maine Healthy Beaches Program’s continued efforts to monitor water quality conditions at Maine beaches, ensuring that people enjoying the beach are also ...
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Joint Statement by Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science and Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Administrator of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Regarding European Commission and NOAA Scientific Coopera
The European Union (EU) Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, met with NOAA Administrator, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, on January 18 in the context of her official visit to the United States. Following their meeting they issued this joint statement: "Addressing global challenges needs international collaboration, and this is certainly a key moment to reinforce EU/US ...
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New report warns of expanding threat of hypoxia in U. S. coastal waters/declining oxygen levels in nation’s waters forming dead zones, destroying habitats
A report issued today by key environmental and scientific federal agencies assesses the increasing prevalence of low-oxygen “dead zones” in U.S. coastal waters and outlines a series of research and policy steps that could help reverse the decades-long trend. The interagency report notes that incidents of hypoxia—a condition in which oxygen levels drop so low that fish and other ...
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Federal agencies join states to launch Governors’ West Coast Ocean Action Plan
The White House Council on Environmental Quality, the US Department of Commerce, US Department of the Interior and US Environmental Protection Agency this week, joined the governors of California, Oregon and Washington to launch an historic action plan addressing challenging ocean and coastal management issues along the West Coast. The action plan implements the West Coast Governors’ Agreement ...
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Top environmental officials announce action agenda to restore and protect long island sound
Top officials responsible for the health of the Long Island Sound from the two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regions, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection today announced a blueprint for coordinated actions to be taken through 2013 to protect and restore Long Island Sound. They were also joined by ...
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