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Digging for Data at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium
This is a post by NOAA Environmental Scientist Dr. Amy Merten. The ShoreZone project photographs, maps, and collects information about Pacific Northwest shorelines, like in this view of Kruzof Island,...
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When Setting Fire to an Oil Spill in a Flooded Louisiana Swamp is a Good Thing
A view of one of the controlled burns to remove oil spilled in a wooded swamp outside of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on January 19, 2013. (U.S. Coast Guard) This is a post by Kyle Jellison, NOAA Scientific...
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$2 Million in Aquatic Restoration Projects Proposed for Polluted Housatonic...
The latest round of aquatic restoration projects for the Housatonic River will also indirectly improve water quality, increase buffering during coastal storms, and reduce runoff pollution into the...
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From Dynamite to Deconstruction, or How to Remove Ships from Coral Reefs
SULU SEA (Jan. 28, 2013) The U.S. Navy contracted Malaysian tug Vos Apollo removes petroleum-based products and human wastewater from the mine countermeasure ship USS Guardian (MCM 5), which ran...
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Déjà vu on the Sheboygan River: Transitioning from Cleanup to Restoration in...
Looking upstream on the Sheboygan River from the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge in downtown Sheboygan, Wisconsin. This section of the river was dredged in 2011 to remove sediment contaminated with PCBs and...
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Two Years after Japan Tsunami, Beached Dock to be Removed from Washington’s...
Swept away during the Japan tsunami of March 11, 2011, the steel, concrete, and foam dock beached at Olympic National Park, Wash., nearly two years later. (National Park Service) Two years after the...
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For Submerged Oil Pollution in Western Gulf of Mexico, Restoration Is Coming...
By Sandra Arismendez, Regional Resource Coordinator for the Office of Response and Restoration’s Assessment and Restoration Division. Imagine trying to describe the state of 45,000 acres of habitat on...
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Alcoa Aluminum Factories Settle $19.4 Million for Pollution of St. Lawrence...
For decades, two Alcoa alumininum facilities discharged toxic PCBs into the St. Lawrence River, its tributaries the Grasse and Raquette Rivers, and the surrounding area in Massena, N.Y. Alcoa and...
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What Do Hanford’s Latest Nuclear Waste Leaks Mean for Environmental Restoration?
This is a post by Vicki Loe and Charlene Andrade. Some of the older nuclear waste storage tanks at Hanford in southeast Washington. (U.S. Department of Energy) This past February, the U.S. Department...
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After Remaking the Way for Fish, Huge Increases Follow for Migrating Herring...
The Sawmill Dam before NOAA helped install “fishways,” which allow fish to pass more easily over dams, on the Acushnet River in Massachusetts. (NOAA/Steve Block) A version of this story first appeared...
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Baby Mink Jeopardized by Toxic Chemicals in New York’s Hudson River
This is a guest post by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Kathryn Jahn, case manager for the Hudson River Natural Resource Damage Assessment. This originally appeared in full on the U.S. Fish...
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When Studying How to Clean Oiled Marshes, NOAA Scientists Have Their Work Cut...
This is a post by Office of Response and Restoration Biologist Nicolle Rutherford. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill oozes out from beneath a vegetation mat in a marsh in Barataria Bay’s Bay Jimmy,...
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The Oil Spill That Helped a South Carolina Community Transform an Abandoned...
This Earth Day and every day, NOAA honors our planet by using cutting-edge science to understand Earth’s systems and keep its habitats and vital natural resources healthy and resilient. Learn more at...
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Small Boat Confirmed as First Japan Tsunami Debris to Reach California
Examining the Japanese skiff that washed up near Crescent City, Calif., on April 7, 2013. This is the first verified item from the Japan tsunami to appear in California. (Redwood Coast Tsunami Working...
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Over a Century after Texas Strikes Oil, Marsh Restoration Completed for an...
This is a post by the Office of Response and Restoration’s Jessica White. On January 10, 1910, the famous Lucas gusher, named after the persistent oil explorer who drilled the well, struck oil at...
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NOAA Likes Rivers Too
A view of the Hudson River in the fall. NOAA is involved with assessing the environmental impacts to the Hudson River due to industrial pollution from two General Electric plants. (Photo: Roy Saplin,...
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Keeping America the Beautiful this Independence Day
Those of us at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) want to wish everyone a Happy Fourth of July holiday! And what better way than with the triumphant restoration of America’s...
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Kelp Forest Restoration Project Begins off Southern California Coast
This is a post by Gabrielle Dorr, NOAA/Montrose Settlements Restoration Program Outreach Coordinator. A volunteer diver removes urchins from an urchin barren to encourage the settlement of kelp larvae....
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Science of Oil Spills Training Now Accepting Applications for October 2013
Student Dana Wetzel of Mote Marine Laboratory shows off the prize she won while playing intertidal organism bingo during the June 2013 Science of Oil Spills class field trip to Olympic Beach, Edmonds,...
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After Sandy, Adapting NOAA’s Tools for a Changing Shoreline
Editor’s Note: September is National Preparedness Month. It is a time to prepare yourself and those in your care for emergencies and disasters of all kinds. NOAA and our partners are making sure that...
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