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Vessel Construction of NOAA's R/V Fulmar A new 65' vessel is being built as a sister ship to the highly successful R/V Shearwater working in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in southern California. This vessel will be home ported in Monterey, but will serve the adjacent Sanctuaries of Central California (11/30/05)

Encyclopedia of the Sanctuaries In this online guide, you will find photos, streaming video and important biological information for over 100 marine species from each of the Marine Sanctuaries in the United States (08/05/05)

Final EIR/EIS for MBARI MARS Cabled Observatory This document is the finalizing addendum to the Draft EIR/EIS. Available for public review (07/25/05)

West Coast CSCAPE: Collaborative Survey of Cetacean Abundance and the Pelagic Ecosystem CSCAPE is a collaboration between the National Marine Fisheries Service and the National Marine Sanctuary Program to assess the abundance and distribution of marine mammals and to characterize the pelagic ecosystem off the U.S. West Coast (07/21/05)

Contest to Design an "Environmentally Friendly" Anchor The MBNMS and MBARI are jointly sponsoring a design competition to encourage the submission of ideas for more "environmentally friendly" anchors (03/21/05) COMPLETED

Citizen's Update for JMPR (1.7MB PDF) Status of MBNMS's Management Plan Review (03/16/05)

Draft EIR/EIS for MBARI MARS Cabled Observatory The Draft EIR/EIS analyzes the potential impacts of the project and proposed mitigation measures (03/15/05)

2004 Sanctuary Currents Symposium:
The theme of this year's annual Sanctuary Currents Symposium is "Tracking the Health of Our Sanctuary". The program will highlight the findings of monitoring efforts within the Sanctuary from the perspective of local scientists, citizen volunteers and policy makers (2/10/05) COMPLETED

MBNMS Spring 2005 Sanctuary Advisory Council Recruitment Deadline January 21st, 2005 (11/29/04) CLOSED

Call for Research Posters for the 2005 Sanctuary Currents symposium due by January 21,2005 (11/18/04) CLOSED

Position Announcement for SIMoN: Marine Ecosystem GIS Analyst The position is located in San Francisco at the office of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, and will be part of the Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN). (9/30/05) CLOSED

Position Announcement: GIS Analyst (6/8/05) CLOSED

Position Announcement for CeNCOOS Program: CeNCOOS Regional Ocean Observation System Coordinator (05/05/05)

Position Announcement for MERITO Program: Activity Guide Curriculum Developer Currently the MERITO program is expanding its afterschool ‘Watershed Academy” program and will be publishing a new watershed and ocean science activity guide to support teachers and program leaders in implementing these hands-on field and in-class experiences for our community’s diverse student groups.(4/20/05) CLOSED

NOAA's National Marine Protected Area's (MPA) Seeking a System Ecologist and two Regional Ecologists The National System Ecologist and one of the Regional Ecologists will be located in Santa Cruz, CA. The other Regional Ecologist will be in Boston, MA. Please visit IMSG for more information on these positions (12/3/04)

Requests for Proposals

RFP for critical prey study released 100KB PDF (12/1/04)

Snapshot Day 2004 Report Now Available (4/26/05)

Draft EIR/EIS for MBARI MARS Cabled Observatory The Draft EIR/EIS analyzes the potential impacts of the project and proposed mitigation measures (03/15/05)

First Flush 2004 Report Now Available (03/04/05)

Agriculture Water Quality Alliance (AWQA) Site Released The farmers and ranchers of the Central Coast are setting an example for other regions by showing that economically viable agriculture is compatible with environmental protection. (2/15/05)

“Finestre Sottomarine” – Windows Under the Sea
Summary of Site Visits to Some of Italy's Marine Protected Areas
While it is not possible to visit and observe all of Italy’s 23 marine protected areas, a goal of this project is to visit up to 10 of the designated areas and speak with the site director, key staff and stakeholders.

2006 Calendar and 2006 Sanctuary Advisory Councel Schedule (10/13/05)

MERITO Events page in english & spanish (5/10/05)

Contact Information on the english & spanish MERITO pages. (2/23/05)

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