Cross Regional Activities
The National Ocean Economics Program
Date project initiated: September 1, 2007
Principal Investigator:
Judith T. Kildow
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039-9644
(831) 775-1700
JTK@mbari.org
Brief project summary:
The National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP) produces and distributes
data on Human Observations of our nation’s coasts and oceans.
It provides a full range of the most current economic and socio-economic
information available on changes and trends along the U.S. coast and
in coastal waters. The program is funded by federal, state, university,
and private grants and contracts. The purpose of the NOEP is to: (1)
compile a comprehensive time series of socio-economic indicators revealing
the economic value of the ocean and coasts of the United States; (2)
define and describe the Ocean and Coastal Economies, (3) reveal changes
and trends in uses and values of coastal and ocean resources, 4) link
changes in human activities and changes in the ocean environment that
demonstrate the relationships among them. A primary objective of the
NOEP (www.OceanEconomics.org) is the creation and distribution to the
public of a spatially and temporally consistent data set that will support
a wide range of economic, scientific, and resource management activities.
A second objective is the development of selected derivative products
designed to demonstrate the utility of the primary data set. NOEP outputs
comprise both market and non-market indicators of the value of ocean
and coastal industries and the resources that depend on them, provide
natural resource values and production levels, and incorporate key indicators
of the human activities that depend upon and influence ocean and coastal
resources.
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