Podcasts: September 2011
State and federal trustee agencies will use most of the funds from a $36.8 million settlement of natural resource damages to restore natural resources injured by the Nov. 7, 2007 oil spill in the San Francisco Bay and to improve Bay Area recreational opportunities impacted by the spill. The funds are part of a $44.4 million settlement with Regal Stone Limited and Fleet Management Limited, the companies responsible for the container ship Cosco Busan that spilled 53,000 gallons of oil into the bay after hitting the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
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Draft Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan
NOAA's Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program
Learn about PCBs, including why we still study this banned chemical today, in just three minutes on the latest episode of Diving Deeper Shorts.
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Join us this week for two stories and an Ocean Fact (6 minutes):
Arctic Sea Floor Inventory. NOAA scientists are collecting environmental data off the coast of Alaska in the Chukchi Sea to get a clear picture of this underwater ecosystem before any offshore development begins.
A Whale of a Partnership. NOAA, French sanctuaries join forces to protect endangered humpback whales along their annual migration route.
Ocean Fact. Where is the largest protected area in NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary system?
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Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries
Bioeffects Assessment Program, NOAA's National Status & Trends
Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Join us this week to take a look at the many roles and activities of the National Ocean Service when hurricanes threaten our coasts. (14 minutes)
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NOAA's Atlantic hurricane season update calls for increase in named storms
Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
National Water Level Observation Network
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
NOAA’s National Status and Trends Program
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
- NOS Program Offices
- Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
- National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
- NOAA Coastal Services Center
- National Geodetic Survey
- Office of Coast Survey
- Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
- Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
- Office of Response and Restoration
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