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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is a federal agency, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. It includes several line offices with distinct or overlapping missions, including:
- National Ocean Service - develops charts, tracks tides, and completes damage assessment related to oil spills and waste sites.
- National Marine Fisheries Service - regulates endangered species under ESA, Negotiates the harvest of fisheries, studies fisheries and their habitats, and restores habitat.
- National Weather Service - predicts the weather including rainfall and downstream effects on flooding.
- National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service - Manages GPS and weather satellites, and has a really big budget to manage that infrastructure.
- Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
- Office of Marine and Aviation Operations - which operates a fleet of ships and airplanes through its own uniformed service, the NOAA Corps.
These are called "line offices" and each has its own "Assistant Administrator" or "AA" and they are led by the "Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere". Each line office may have its own system of Assistant Regional Administrators and regional staff in addition to headquarters programs (which may in turn have their own regions!)
The largest NOAA Office in the Salish Sea is at Sand Point in Seattle. There is an office in Lacey, and labs at Mukilteo and Manchester. Here are some workgroups particularly active in the Salish Sea ecosystem management.
NOS Assessment and Restoration Division
NOAA Restoration Center
NW Fisheries Science Center
The Fish Ecology Division focuses on understanding the complex ecological linkages between commercially and recreationally important marine and anadromous fishery resources of the Pacific Northwest and their habitats.
The Watershed Program conducts research on the ecology and management of freshwater and estuarine ecosystems to assist with the management and recovery of NOAA trust resources. Program scientists provide technical support to NOAA Fisheries policy makers and regulatory staff, and collaborate with other agencies, tribes, and educational institutions on research and outreach related to the management of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.).
Other Pages
The following pages have a NOAA category:
- Align Grant Coordination Workgroup
- Automating Landscape Connectivity for Puget Sound River Deltas and Pocket Estuaries
- Coastal Blue Carbon Project
- Conservation Project Budget Standards
- Continuous Improvement
- Coordinated Investment
- Crescent Harbor Lagoon Restoration
- Culvert Replacement Regulatory Coordination
- Delta Metrics Project
- ESRP/Learning Program
- Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program (ESRP)
- Evaluating Puget Sound Beach Services for Protection and Restoration
- Evaluating Salmon Rearing Limitations in River Deltas
- Fir Island Farm Restoration
- Fisher Slough Restoration
- Flood Hazard and Ecosystem Management Coordination
- Floodplains by Design (FbD)
- French Slough Drainage Management
- Improving Acquisition Systems Workshop
- Integrated Nearshore Priorities Project
- Jim Creek Channel Enhancement
- Kilisut Restoration
- Leque Island Restoration
- Livingston Lagoon Restoration
- Lower Canyon Creek Restoration
- Lower Snohomish Reach Scale Plan
- Mapping Bluffs and Beaches to Quantify Sediment Supply
- Mapping Bluffs and Beaches to Quantify Sediment Supply 2021
- Maximizing Benefits of Shoreline Armor Removal
- Measuring Coastal Bluff Recession Rates Throughout the Puget Sound Region
- Mid-spencer Island Restoration
- Nisqually Refuge Restoration
- Template:NOAA
- Nooksack Floodplain Integrated Management Planning
- Northwest Maritime Center Dock
- Port Susan Restoration
- Predicting Rates of Channel Development
- Puget Sound Large River Delta Tidal Restriction and Wetland Mapping
- Puget Sound Marine Riparian Mapping
- Puget Sound Nearshore Habitat Conservation Calculator
- Puget Sound Tidal Restriction and Wetland Mapping
- Qwuloolt Restoration
- River Delta Consortium
- Salmon Creek Estuary Fill Removal
- Science Sprints to Support Regulation
- Skagit Delta Tidegates and Fish Initiative
- Skagit Farm, Fish and Flood Initiative
- Skokomish Delta Restoration
- Smith Island Restoration
- Smuggler's Slough Restoration
- Sno-Stilly Riparian Zone Management Strategy
- Snohomish Agricultural Resilience
- Snohomish Agriculture Resilience Plan
- Snohomish Coordinated Investment Network
- Snohomish Estuary Restoration Effects on Temperature, Salinity, and Tides
- Snohomish Farmland Protection Strategy
- Snohomish Sustainable Lands Strategy
- Standard Conservation Project Description
- Three Crabs Restoration
- Tidal Channel Reference Model
- Tide Gate Effects Analysis
- US Interagency Elevation Inventory
- Washington Water and Salmon Fund Finder
- Working Buffer Pilot Project
- Zis a Ba Restoration
The following documents have a NOAA category:
