Coastal Management and Disaster Response

--Using NOAA Tools for Safe Navigation--

Coastal managers and response teams rely on a variety of navigation-related information -- from accurate shoreline maps to real-time water current data. NOAA's new technologies will quickly and efficiently provide them with the critical information they need.

Products and information provided by NOAA support a number of critical disciplines.

Coastal Area Clean Up Efforts
The table below estimates (in 1990 dollars) damages from spills of hazardous cargo as they relate to fourteen categories of fish, sea birds, and marine mammals. It accounts for lost revenue from closing of shellfish beds, decreases in the size and productivity of fisheries, changes in fish market prices, and effects on seafood processors and other supporting businesses.

ZONE
COMMODOTY
SMALL
(8,000 gal.)
CATASTROPHIC
(4,000,000 gal.)
Mobile, AL Gasoline $ 435,000 $1,818,032,000
Anchorage/Cook Inlet, AK Crude $ 432,000 $ 20,920,000
San Francisco, CA Gasoline $ 134,000 $ 232,032,000
Tampa, FL #2 Fuel Oil $ 154,000 $ 47,486,000
Chesapeake North/Baltimore, MD Gasoline $ 16,000 $ 764,636,000
Wilmington, NC Alcohol $ 841,000 $ 258,592,000
Philadelphia/Delaware Bay, PA #6 Fuel Oil $ 127,000 $ 63,712,000
Providence, RI Gasoline $ 84,000 $ 459,760,000
Houston/Galveston, TX Alcohol $10,339,000 $1,055,704,000
Puget Sound, WA Gasoline $ 26,000 $ 75,984,000

Increasing uses of geographic information systems at all government levels is fueling the demand for digital data from nautical charts and marine forecasting systems.

These are some of the technologies that support the work of coastal managers and disaster response planners:

Navigational Charts Button

Shoreline Mapping Button

Positioning Services Button

Water Level & Current Forecasting Button

PORTS Button



Links to related sites:

Interactive Marine Observations
Marine Weather
NOAA Coastal Service Center
Coastal Zone Management Program
Smart Forum
Regis GrassLinks
The Coastal Society
EPA National Estuary Program
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory
Listing of Marine Web Sites
Listing of Maritime Companies
Listing of Cargo Port Links


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Last Updated July 31, 2001