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The Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment today released its 2012–2017 Action Plan, which describes the initiatives that the Council is pursuing during this five-year period toward the long-term vision of a healthy and resilient Gulf of Maine. Waterview Consulting worked with the Council to refine its draft Plan into a set of …

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) announce the release of Marshes on the Move: A Manager’s Guide to Understanding and Using Model Results Depicting Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Wetlands. Waterview Consulting wrote and designed the publication in collaboration with staff from NOAA and TNC. …

Funded by a grant from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Waterview Consulting recently completed a study of the use of ecosystem-based management (EBM) tools for marine and coastal management. The study investigated the impact of EBM tools on management outcomes in the Philippines, Fiji, Dominican Republic, and three locations in the United States (Texas, …

Formed in 2010, the Sargasso Sea Alliance is a partnership led by the Bermuda Government, in collaboration with scientists, international marine conservation groups and private donors, who all share a vision of protecting the unique and vulnerable ocean ecosystem that is the Sargasso Sea. The Alliance aims to mobilize support from a wide variety of …

The Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Ocean (PISCO) has released a European version of The Science of Marine Reserves, an educational booklet originally published in 2002 and updated in 2007. The booklet is now presented in four versions: a U.S. version in English and Spanish, an international version in English, a Latin American and …

Developed to enhance regional ocean planning efforts, the new Northeast Ocean Data Portal (www.northeastoceandata.org) contains regional spatial data on human activities, natural resources, and jurisdictional information for New England’s coasts and ocean waters. Waterview Consulting developed the Portal website with the exception of the Data Viewer mapping application. We worked closely with members of the …

The State of the Gulf of Maine Report is a modular, living document made up of a context document and a series of theme or issue papers. The context document, The Gulf of the Maine in Context, provides an introduction to the natural and socioeconomic environment of the Gulf of Maine. It provides an overview of the Gulf …

This report examines six ecosystem-based planning efforts across the United States: the Mission-Aransas Ecosystem Management Plan in Texas, community wildfire plans in Colorado, the Creating Resilient Communities project in South Carolina, the Pelekane Bay Watershed Restoration Project in Hawaii, the Long Island Coastal Hazard Mitigation Plan in Long Island, and the Sanford Conservation Plan in …

Three-State Collaborative Releases Publications on Science and Conservation of Rainbow Smelt A century ago, streams in the northeastern United States teemed each spring with small silvery fish called rainbow smelt. Over the last ten to fifteen years, rainbow smelt have declined in abundance for reasons that are not well understood, and the U.S. government in …

The Gulf of Maine Habitat Restoration and Conservation Plan is the result of a multi-year effort involving numerous state and federal agencies and non-government organizations in the three Gulf of Maine states.