national oceanic and atmospheric administration
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.
Relationships
- broader: land use;agriculture;water management
- broader: legal
- involves organization: federal
- located in: usa
- related to: Enhanced Geothermal Systems
- related to: Federated Knowledge Commons
- related to: Natural Resource Damage Assessment
- related to: Olympia Oysters
- related to: Water Resource Inventory Areas (WRIA)
- related to: clean water act
- related to: council of environmental quality
- related to: cultural resources
- related to: department of archaeological and historic preservation
- related to: deschutes estuary restoration team
- related to: ecology
- related to: environmental protection agency
- related to: federal nexus
- related to: jurisdictions
- related to: nearshore
- related to: nepa
- related to: oil pollution act
- related to: permitting and reporting information system database (paris)
- related to: regulation and mitigation systems
- related to: riparian buffers
- related to: streams
- related to: thurston county
- related to: us army corps of engineers
- related to: us fish and wildlife service
- related to: washington state department of ecology
- related to: washington state
- related to: wetland
- related to: Skagit Delta
- related to: Commencement Bay Natural Resource Trustees
- related to: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- related to: US Army Corps of Engineers
- related to: US Federal Government
- related to: US Fish and Wildlife Service
- related to: Washington State Department of Natural Resources
- related to: Automating Landscape Connectivity for Puget Sound River Deltas and Pocket Estuaries
- related to: Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP)
- related to: Effects of Exposed Tidal Flats on Water Temperature in the Snohomish Estuary
- related to: Fisher Slough Restoration
- related to: Habitat Service Quantification Methods Assessment
- related to: High Resolution Change Detection
- related to: Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project
Source: national oceanic and atmospheric administration on Salish Sea Wiki