NOAA - Ecosystem Goal Team - To protect, restore and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach to management

In 2008, success of the Bolsa Chica Wetlands Restoration is evident: "An Explosion of Sea Life"

Two years ago, a sand berm that blocked the Pacific Ocean from entering an old oil field located in Orange County, California was removed for the first time in a hundred years in hopes of establishing a 364-acre wetland restoration project-the largest west of the Mississippi. >> read more

First Global Socioeconomic Monitoring Report Launched

NOAA's Ecosystem Goal Team is committed to increasing its work in the social sciences and has achieved an early milestone in this effort with the release of Socioeconomic Conditions Along the World's Tropical Coasts: 2008. >> read more

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