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Inspiring Students and Teachers Information and activities for students and teachers who'd like to learn more about oil spills or hazardous chemical accidents.
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Assessing Risk to Ecological Resources Assessing hazardous waste sites that threaten NOAA's trust resources.
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Restoration Planning Tools Describing NOAA's responsibilities, defining restoration terms, assessing injuries to natural resources and approaches to restoration.
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NOAA's Emergency Response Program NOAA's cross-cutting program to build and sustain the agency's ability to respond effectively to emergencies.
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Marine Debris Marine debris is any man-made object discarded, disposed of, or abandoned that enters the coastal or marine environment. It may enter directly from a ship, or indirectly when washed out to sea via rivers, streams and storm drains.
Marine debris threatens oceans and coasts; marine mammals, fish, and seabirds; human health and safety; and navigation.
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Protecting Coastal Resources Evaluating pollutants in the coastal environment and determining remediation measures to protect coastal resources from further harm caused by those pollutants.
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Responding to Oil Spills Information to support effective and safe responses to oil spills in the coastal environment.
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Helping Revitalize Communities Working locally to help communities revitalize waterfronts through environmental remediation and restoration.
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Featured Case Studies Highlighting selected cases and restoration projects with summary information about project implementation.
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Supporting Local and Regional Decision-Making Working to support community decisions that promote sustainable uses of coastal resources.
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Integrating Remediation and Restoration Merging remediation and restoration planning to promote timely, effective, and efficient protection and restoration of degraded coastal resources.
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Restoration Projects Summarizes restoration projects conducted by NOAA and our partners in order to recover natural resources.
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Responding to Chemical Spills Information to support effective and safe responses to chemical spills in the coastal environment.
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ERMA, Watershed Database, and Mapping Projects NOAA's Assessment and Restoration Division has developed numerous Watershed Database and Mapping Projects. Because each project is unique, with its own characteristics, their components vary. But each builds upon a standard database structure and a data delivery application (Query Manager). Most include GIS data as well.
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Planning for Environmental Emergencies Information to help contingency planners protect regions against oil and chemical spills.
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Assessing Environmental Harm Evaluating oil and chemical behavior and assessing effects and damage from spills.
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Natural Resource Damage Assessment Through the NRDA process, DARRP and co-trustees conduct studies to identify the extent of resource injuries, the best methods for restoring those resources, and the type and amount of restoration required.
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Abandoned Vessels Identifying and removing vessels abandoned in sensitive coastal environments.
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Recent and Historical Incidents Responses to oil and chemical spills.
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