Ocean and Coastal Highlights

NPS and USFWS are monitoring the Kittlitz’s murrelet to advance our understanding of climate changes occurring in the dynamic Glacier Bay ecosystem.

More than $40 billion of National Park Service assets, including infrastructure and historic and cultural resources, are at high risk of damage from sea-level rise caused by climate change.

DOI and BOEM celebrate an historic milestone for America’s first commercial scale offshore wind farm.

Reducing light pollution along developed shorelines by replacing white lights with amber colored LEDs can reduce disorientation in sea turtle hatchlings

This interactive map viewer provides easy-to-understand cartographic representations, 250 coastal and ocean data layers, and a searchable data registry.

LCC networks provide a forum where entities can come together to consider the larger landscape perspective and collectively find conservation solutions

New app developed by USGS helps emergency managers estimate how long it takes to travel on foot out of a tsunami-hazard zone

Studies of dam removal and the resulting river restoration document the effects and will help guide future dam removals

A special partnership shares understanding of bowhead whales and their role in the Pacific Arctic marine ecosystem

Major potential problems include loss of sea ice, melting permafrost and coastal erosion.