Our core mission is to promote, present, and protect the world of water. Landmark studies on right whales, African lake cichlids, fisheries bycatch issues, bluefin tuna, and sea turtles, have established the Aquarium as an internationally recognized marine and aquatic conservation research center. Their Rescue and Rehab program releases animals to the wild and features an online map of wildlife movements . NOAA National Ocean Service Special Projects Office . SEA organizes data on the nation's coastal and ocean resources and provides this information to decisionmakers in the form of environmental reports and papers, regional and national atlases, and desktop and geographic information system products.
Branch has two missions.
First, DSS works directly with coastal resource managers to design and implement desktop information systems intended to organize and display information for use in the management of the nation's ocean and coastal resources. Over the past several years systems have been developed for various coastal issues including fisheries management, water rights and uses in Texas, National Marine Sanctuary management, shoreline uses and regulation in Oregon, and others. An important characteristic of this mission is fostering state partnerships.