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Thursday, 24th June 2010

New NOAA Website Highlights Economic and Ecological Value of America’s Coast

New NOAA Website Highlights Economic and Ecological Value of America’s Coast

NOAA today launched State of the Coast, an important new website that provides coastal managers, planners and officials at all levels of government a snapshot of statistics, facts and graphics about America’s 95,000-miles of coastline. The site provides the tools for better decision-making and for communicating the importance of healthy coastal ecosystems for a robust national economy and better quality of life.

Created and maintained by NOAA’s National Ocean Service, State of the Coast can be accessed online. Its indicators are based on longer-term, national datasets and do not currently reflect the ecological, economic and socials impacts of the BP oil spill on the Gulf Coast.

NOAA’s State of the Coast offers quick facts and detailed statistics about the coast's extraordinary benefits to society, but also its degraded state and continuing threats to its health, including impacts of a changing climate. The site also offers case studies and management success stories that highlight often complex connections across several themes.

Visualizations highlight important aspects of the nation’s coasts, such as anticipated changes in coastal population from 1970 to 2040, the impact coastal areas have on the U.S. economy, the overall health of the U.S. coasts and coastal areas’ vulnerability to long term sea level rise.

Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


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