States, together with the protection of [what's new] is a South Atlantic coast

Dee Freeman, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources to the Secretary-General of the South are partners within the Alliance.

19. October 2009, the NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION joined the Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and other support files to work with partners such as States, manage and protect Ocean and coastal resources, regional economic sustainability, and respond to such as hurricanes agreement.

These four States share for each State and territory rich of the oceans and coastal resources in the table provide economic, environmental and social benefits as a whole. Pollution, declining, fisheries, coastal habitats, creating degraded natural hazard, vulnerability and an explosion of population growth and development are all putting the stress of the coastal and ocean resources.

The Directors General of the South Atlantic Alliance brings, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina together to solve these problems and much more.Alliance is to significantly increase the Federal agencies, universities, other organisations, regional organisations, private companies and the public with the support of the four States in the Alliance will focus on regional cooperation. first of all four priority areas:

Healthy ecosystems:  Improving and supporting implementation of an ecosystem-based maqui berry colon cleanse management activities in the region; to improve the economic, social and cultural benefits funds; and the biological, economic and cultural diversity.Working Waterfronts:  Conservation and the course of trade and the public, while respecting the legislative or administrative provisions, and in the coastal areas and land-use planning tools to manage the future development.To be clean coastal and ocean:  Water quality and coastal ecosystem health improvement by coastal managers and decision makers to work on the ecosystem and human health issues a decision in accordance with the necessary information.Disaster-resilient communities:Building communities that are able to oppose and a better understanding of these events, sharing of best practices and new and more effective implementing strategies to recover from the effects of natural hazards.

NOAA was designated Federal co-chair to support the Alliance WITH THE U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Dr. Paul Sandifer has been appointed as the representative of the NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION's top team.

Each year, an official statement of the coastal States were held in Alliance organization meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. Jack Dunnigan, NOS Assistant Administrator identified with Bill Ross, former North Carolina Secretary, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, their leadership and support the Alliance during the period of growth.

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION continue to be a key planning Bureau. States are currently carrying out the engagement of an operating grant financed from the NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION of the Association of South-East and the Caribbean regional group and Sea Services Center makes it easy for you to be financed from the results of These seminars seminars. is the basis for the Alliance action plan.

To help prepare the Gulf States, if any, of the oil Spill Impacts for

Such as NOAA's direct connection to the status of the National Estuarine Research reserves and Sea region programs carry out its tasks in the Office of ocean and coastal Resource Management (OCRM) is to help States to prepare for the deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil Horizon, potential.

Weeks Bay reserve has five National Estuarine Research reserves is located in the Gulf of Mexico. Week assignment covers more than 6000 Bay acres of wetlands along the tidal and forested Northern Gulf Mobile Bay greater estuarine system.

Estuaries are critical for the spawning areas, since many of the commercial and recreational fish and shellfish, and flooding and shoreline buffer mountain from erosion. National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) set out the whole of the nation's long-term, research and training network of 27 suistoalueille.

Could particularly harmful effects on estuaries OCRM estuarine reserves of oil. Division staff are in close five Gulf Coast NERRs Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas, they prepare for a potential landfall.The assistance includes serving as a clearinghouse to address special needs at the vulnerability with expertise in addition to collecting NERRS. long-term environmental information, which is used to support the design and modeling related to spill.

Gulf Coast NERRs staff has been gathering to establish baseline measurements of contaminants in water and sediment samples, oil supply bays and wetlands also Some reserve personnel. [1] [2] is currently being trained to deal with hazardous materials, so that they can assist in the cleanup, and continue to sample the water and sediments if oil enters the shore.

Coastal areas

OCRM is managed by the national coastal Zone Management program, a voluntary federal-State partnership to protect, restore and develop a responsible management of our people's diverse coastal communities and resources. shall provide technical and financial assistance to the State coastal management programs at the national and State to achieve the objectives of the programme through their duties have ceased, not to maintain close cooperation with the State OCRM coastal zone managers.

Following the incident and the deep sea, coastal management, BP experts for integrated management of coastal zones in the territory of OCRM's programs have been in regular contact with the management, give them NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION and the Federal updates, information, and contact information.OCRM staff are also help coastal waters and on the shores of oil to prepare for coastal managers.

Marine Protected Areas

Marine protected areas (MPAs) in the United States come in different forms and are drawn up and manage all levels national MPA Center is located in the Centre of OCRM, help the science, technology, education and information in the planning, management and evaluation of the national system of marine protected areas in order to facilitate the use of.

MPA Center has created a map, "the United States, the principles of proximity, MPAs deep-sea Horizon oil oil spill recovery," the United States MPAs that may affect the display Map the boundaries of the oil also contains other information, such as the authorities involved in the maintenance of the variety of MPAs focus.

Excerpt from "the United States, the principles of proximity, MPAs deep-sea Horizon oil oil spill recovery" map. MPA Center Web site to download the PDF specification.