Coastal Zone Management Act Consistency Appeals - obtain information about administrative appeals filed under the Coastal Zone Management Act with the Department of Commerce. The site provides access to documents in the administrative record for pending appeals as well as background information on the CZMA appeal process.
	NOAA's Ocean Explorer - NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration is making it easy for underwater explorers to journey beneath the water's surface and not get wet.
	Our Living Oceans - report on the status of U.S. Living Marine Resources
	Sustainable Seas Expeditions - uses the DeepWorker one-person submersible and other technologies to explore and conduct research in deep water habitats in NOAA's 12 national marine sanctuaries.
	NOAA's CoastWatch Great Lakes Program - NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab obtains, produces, and delivers environmental data and products for near real-time monitoring of the Great Lakes to support environmental science, decision making, and supporting research. This is achieved by providing access to near real-time and retrospective satellite observations.
	Diving Resources - Take a dive and swim around to see what NOAA has to offer diving enthusiasts.
	Nautical Charts - NOAA's Coast Survey is the nation's official chartmaker. It is the oldest U.S. scientific organization dating back to Thomas Jefferson who established the office in 1807 to encourage commerce and support the economy in a safe and efficient manner.
	Volunteering for the Coast - is a Web site for people with a passion for lakes, rivers, and the ocean, who want to volunteer or coordinate volunteer efforts. By volunteering for the coast, we can all have a hand at making our shores a better place to live and visit.
	Come visit Aquarius - the world's only underwater laboratory operational in our world's oceans. Located adjacent to the coral reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Aquarius is owned and funded by NOAA and is operated by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
	Argo - is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that will measure the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 meters of the ocean. This will allow continuous monitoring of the climate state of the ocean, with all data being relayed and made publicly available within hours after collection.
	Marine Protected Areas — may include national marine sanctuaries, fisheries management zones, national seashores, national parks, national monuments, critical habitats, national wildlife refuges, national estuarine research reserves, state conservation areas, state reserves, and many others.
	SEE ALSO: Fisheries Resources

NOAA's National Ocean Service - grew out of the nation's oldest scientific agency, established as the Survey of the Coast in 1807 by President Thomas Jefferson. Today, NOS is responsible for the observation, measurement, assessment and management of the nation's vast coastal and ocean areas. NOS provides world-class products and services that protect millions of lives, billions of dollars in property and irreplaceable natural resources daily.

	Coastal Services Center - support the environmental, social, and economic well being of the coast by linking people, information, and technology.
	Office of the Coast Survey - the oldest scientific organization in the United States, having its foundation as far back as 1807. Today the Office of Coast Survey is known for the useful and necessary navigational products which are required for the safe and efficient maritime commerce in and out of our Nation's ports.
	Ocean and Coastal Resource Management - administers the Coastal Zone Management Act and a leader on the Nation's coastal, estuarine and ocean management issues.
	Office of Response and Restoration (ORR) - responds to dozens of spills of oil and other hazardous materials each year. ORR helps emergency planners prepare for potential accidents, creates software, databases, and other tools to help people respond to hazardous materials accidents, works to find remedies for environmental damage caused by hazardous waste sites in coastal areas, and assesses injury to coastal resources from releases of oil, other hazardous materials, vessel groundings, and abandoned vessels, and pursue restoration from those responsible for the harm.
	National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science - conducts and supports monitoring, research, assessment, and technical assistance for the range of NOAA's coastal stewardship responsibilities.
	Office of National Marine Sanctuaries - serves as the trustee for the nation's system of marine protected areas, to conserve, protect, and enhance their biodiversity, ecological integrity and cultural legacy.

NOAA Research (the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, or OAR) in cooperation with its research partners, explores and investigates ocean habitats and resources. It provides scientific results to help manage and understand fisheries, conserve and protect our coasts, and build a stronger economy through marine products and businesses, such as biotechnology and aquaculture.

	Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory - conducts a basic and applied research program in oceanography, tropical meteorology, atmospheric and oceanic chemistry, and acoustics. The program seeks to understand the physical characteristics and processes of the ocean and the atmosphere, both separately and as a coupled system.
	National Sea Grant College Program - encourages the wise stewardship of our marine resources through research, education, outreach and technology transfer. Sea Grant is a partnership between the nation's universities and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that began in 1966, when the U.S. Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act.
	National Undersea Research Program - is a unique national service which provides undersea scientists with tools and expertise that they need to work in the undersea environment. NURP equips scientists with submersibles, remotely operated or autonomous underwater vehicles, mixed gas diving gear, underwater laboratories and observatories.
	Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory - carries out interdisciplinary scientific investigations in oceanography and atmospheric science.