$95 Million to Fund Fish Passage Projects
NOAA makes funding available to help protect and restore migrating fish and their habitats, and support communities and economies that depend on these resources.
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Mapping of Italy’s Coastline for Marine Ecosystem Restoration
Fugro has been selected to map the coastal habitats of the entire Italian coast as part of the Italian government’s Marine Ecosystem Restoration project, a groundbreaking initiative under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
Read moreDARPA Funds Partly Natural, Partly Man-Made Coral Reef
The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a team, led by the University of Hawaii (UH), a $25 million contract to develop a hybrid coral reef comprising natural coral and man-made structures that will protect the coastline from flooding, erosion and storms and provide habitat for corals and other reef life.
Read moreAZFP Checks on Herring Population for Salish Sea First Nations
In recognition of the importance of the Pacific herring, the Salish Sea Community Guardians, an organization dedicated to all aspects of stewardship for Salish Seas First Nations, have created a cross-cultural action plan. This action plan would provide First Nations traditional herring spawning habitat recovery and protection in key herring spawning areas in waters around southern Vancouver Island. Part of
Read moreManned Submersible to Study Salish Sea Wildlife and Habitat
SeaDoc Society and the OceanGate Foundation have partnered in support of deep exploration and research in the Salish Sea off the coast of British Columbia and Washington state. In September 2018 three teams of researchers will dive to depths as great as 200 m in Cyclops 1, a manned submersible owned and operated by OceanGate Inc. During the week-long expedition
Read moreMeta Analysis of Papers Classifying Deep Sea Life Shows We Know Very Little
In a review published in the journal Molecular Ecology, scientists from the Department of Zoology at Oxford University examined all knowledge published to date of deep sea invertebrates. Their paper highlights the disparity between our basic knowledge of the ecology of deep sea animals and the growing impact of humans on the deep ocean. Over the last 30 years there have
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