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Revamping Coral Reef Conservation Program Website
NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program is a cross-NOAA program that focuses on resilience-based management of U.S. coral reef ecosystems and provides scientific data and information to coral reef managers, scientists, educators and the interested public. CSS employee owners recently played an integral role in updating the website with a fresh new look and reorganizing content to provide this information in a more user-friendly, easily accessible format.
The Coral Reef Conservation Program Communication Director — a role filled by a CSS employee owner — worked with web developers and data managers from NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management and National Centers for Environmental Information to provide input on content organization, design, and functionality. The focus areas of the program, such as management capacity, sustainable fisheries, restoring coral reefs, and monitoring coral reefs and communities, are now organized in a more intuitive location, with the topics listed on the main page menu. Additionally, as part of this build, the team developed Digital Corals, a portion of the new website where users can more easily access data, documents, projects and stories. This new section presents a more modern-looking user interface and provides seamless access whereas users previously had to jump to a different system that was less intuitive to navigate. This task was quite complex as the previous information portal contained more than 20 years of data and publications that were transferred to the new system.
Visit the new Coral Reef Conservation Program to view the full experience.
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Collecting and Studying Deep-Sea Coral
Three of our staff supporting NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science joined a team of nine other scientists on a 12 day expedition to collect deep-sea coral samples in the Gulf of Mexico.
Assisting South Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding Network
CSS employee owner and Marine Mammal Microplastic Specialist supporting NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science assists the South Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding Network in responding to dead marine mammals when they strand on beaches or estuaries throughout South Carolina. This is work is critical for human and environmental health because it provides invaluable samples…
New Release: Aquaculture Atlas for the Gulf of Alaska
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has published An Aquaculture Opportunity Area Atlas for the Gulf of Alaska, which identifies 77 potential options in 10 study areas for establishing commercial seaweed and shellfish mariculture in Alaska state waters. For nearly three years, CSS employee owners have been working with partners through our contract with NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) to support this extensive, cross-agency effort. Since 2023, CSS has supported NCCOS with this collaborative effort,…