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Submit your Letter of Intent for the Marine Debris Prevention opportunity (Photo: Monterey Bay Aquarium).
The NOAA Marine Debris Program is proud to announce our FY 2020 “Marine Debris Prevention” federal funding opportunity.
This opportunity provides funding for projects that actively engage and educate a target audience (such as students, teachers, industries, or the public) in hands-on programs designed to raise awareness, provide practical approaches, reduce barriers, and encourage and support changes in behaviors to ensure long-term prevention of marine debris.
The Letter of Intent (LOI) submission period for prevention projects will extend from September 17 to November 5, 2019. Applicants who submit successful LOIs will be invited to submit a full proposal following the LOI review period.
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Beaches in Delaware and Maryland were included in a study analyzing the econmic impact of marine debris on tourism-dependent communities (Photo: NOAA).
Imagine you’ve planned a big trip to the beach with your family and friends, loaded up the car with supplies or jumped on a plane, and traveled to your vacation spot, only to find a beach littered with plastic beverage bottles, stray fishing line, chip bags, cigarette butts, and other debris. Would you stay and play, or be on your way? What if there were no debris, would you be more likely to return in the future? These are the kinds of questions we asked to better understand the relationship between marine debris and the coastal tourism economy.
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Collection bins like this one make sure that tons of nets stay out of the ocean (Photo: NFWF).
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), a NOAA Marine Debris Program partner, the announced ten grants totaling $1,157,788 that will support the removal and disposal of an estimated 330,000 pounds of derelict fishing gear. Derelict fishing gear is defined as fishing gear that is lost, abandoned, or otherwise discarded in the marine environment. This year’s grantees will remove gear from the coastal waters of California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Washington – including two National Marine Sanctuaries.
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Salmons Dredging Corporation (general contractor) employees oversee lowering of a derelict vessel onto a barge in Charleston Harbor (Photo NOAA).
The 2017 hurricane season was one of the most active with 17 named storms; 10 of those became major hurricanes. Three devastating hurricanes made landfall, one of which was Hurricane Irma. Irma was the strongest hurricane ever observed in the open Atlantic Ocean and caused widespread devastation in the Caribbean, Florida, and the Southeastern United States, including South Carolina. As a result, Hurricane Irma ranked in the top five costliest hurricanes in U.S. history at $50 billion.
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Students, get ready to create some art (Photo: Ava E. 6th grade, California).
The Art Competitions opens on October 15, 2019 through November 30, 2019. Help the NOAA Marine Debris Program raise awareness about marine debris!
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Workshop attendees at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon (Photo: NOAA).
The NOAA Marine Debris Program (MDP) is pleased to share the biennial update to the 2017-2023 Oregon Marine Debris Action Plan (Action Plan). This document is the result of a collaborative effort between the MDP and regional partners, including representatives from governments, tribes, non-profits, academia, and the private sector. It includes partners’ shared goals, strategies to achieve those goals, and corresponding actions to reduce marine debris in Oregon.
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