National Ocean Service (NOS) Homepage

NOAA's "Charting and Geodesy" portal page

NOAA's "Coasts" portal page

NOAA's "Ocean" portal page

NOS Organizational Components:

Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) - Tides & Currents Web site

• Coastal Oceanographic Applications and Services of Tides and Lakes (COASTAL)
• Continuous Operational Real-Time Monitoring System (CORMS)
• Great Lakes Online
• National Current Observation Program (NCOP)
• National Operational Coastal Modeling Program (NOCMP)
• National Water Level Program (NWLP) and the National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON)
• Ocean Systems Test and Evaluation Program (OSTEP)
• Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS)
• Tides Online

Coastal Services Center (CSC)

• Coastal Learning Services
• Coastal Remote Sensing Program
• GIS Integration and Development Program
• Human Dimensions Program
• NOAA Coastal Services Center Organizational Chart
• NOAA Shoreline Web site
• Pacific Services Center
• Training Institute

Management and Budget Office

• Special Projects
• Highlighted Projects
• State of the Coast Web Site (Retired Essays)

National Aeronautical Charting Office (NACO) - Transferred to FAA

National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)

• Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research (CCEHBR)
• Estuaries and Land Use Branch
• Harmful Algal Blooms and Analytical Response (HABAR) Branch
• Marine Disease and Restoration Ecology Branch
Cooperative Oxford Laboratory
• Protected Areas and Resources Branch
• Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
• Beaufort Laboratory
• Kasitsna Bay Laboratory
• Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA)
• Biogeography Branch
• Coastal Ocean Assessments, Status, and Trends (COAST) Branch
• National Status and Trends Program
• Center for Human Health Risk (CHHR)
• Hollings Marine Laboratory
• Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR)

National Geodetic Survey (NGS)

• Aeronautical Survey Program
• CORS - Continuously Operating Reference Stations
• Federal Base Network Surveys
• Height Modernization (HTMOD)
• National Shoreline
• NGS Products & Services
• NGS Geodetic Advisors - State Geodetic Advisor Program

NOS International Program Office

Office of Coast Survey (OCS)

Functions
• GIS & Other Products
• Nautical Charts & Publications
• Research & Development
• Surveys & Wrecks
Divisions
• Coast Survey Development Laboratory
• Hydrographic Surveys Division
• Marine Chart Division
• Naviation Services Division

Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS)

• Education
• Expeditions
• Management
• Maritime Heritage
• Protecting Resources
• Sanctuary Science

National Marine Sanctuaries

• Channel Islands - California
• Cordell Bank - California
• Fagatele Bay - American Samoa
• Florida Keys - Florida
• Flower Garden Banks - Texas
• Gray's Reef - Georgia
• Gulf of the Farallones - California
• Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale - Hawaii
• Monitor - North Carolina
• Monterey Bay - California
• Olympic Coast - Washington
• Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument - Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
• Stellwagen Bank - Massachusetts
• Thunder Bay - Michigan

Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM)

• Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program (CELCP)
• Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Environmental Technology (CICEET)
• Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program
• Coral Reef Conservation Program
• National Coastal Zone Management Program
• Coastal Zone Management Act
• National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS)
• National Marine Protected Areas Center

Office of Response and Restoration (ORR)

• Assessment and Restoration Division (see also DARRP)
• Emergency Response Division
• Damage Assessment, Remediation & Restoration Program (DARRP) - a cross-NOAA program
• DARRP Northeast Region
• DARRP Southeast Region
• DARRP Great Lakes Region
• DARRP Northwest Region
• DARRP Southwest Region
• Rapid Assessment Program

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