Cross Regional Activities
The Alliance For Coastal Technologies (ACT): Providing Critical Support to NOAA's Mission
Date project initiated: August 1, 2007
Principal Investigator:
Margaret A. Palmer
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Box 38, Solomons, MD 20688
(410) 326-7241
palmer@cbl.umces.edu
Brief project summary:
The Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) is a partnership of research
institutions, resource managers, and private sector companies dedicated
to fostering the development and adoption of effective and reliable
sensors and sensor platforms. ACT provides three fundamental public
services: (1) a third-party testbed for quantitatively evaluating the
performance of new and existing coastal technologies in the laboratory
and under diverse environmental conditions, (2) a forum capacity building
through technology specific workshops that review the current state
of instrumentation, build consensus on future directions, and enhance
communications between users and developers, and (3) an information
clearinghouse through a searchable online database of environmental
technologies and community discussion boards.
ACT Coastal Observation Technology
System (COTS) Projects
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