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• Office of Sustainable Ecosystems and Communities
  Community-Based Environmental Protection
  • Community-Based Environmental Protection:
    A Resource Book for Protecting Ecosystems and Communities (PDF format)
• Center for Environmental Information and Statistics
  • Environmental Atlas
    An ever-growing map collection online, links to other important collections, and information to help you understand maps and other environmental information.
• Pollution Prevention Home Page
• National Agriculture Compliance Assistance Center
• Software for Environmental Awareness

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• National Water Quality Assessments (305b Report)
  
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  America's Water Resources at a Turning Point
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• WaterNews Listserver
• A Phase I Inventory of Current EPA Efforts to Protect Ecosystems (1995)

Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds Home Page
(Part of the Office of Water)

• Division Home Pages
  • Oceans and Coastal Protection Division
  • Wetlands Division
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• National Estuary Program Information
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  • Coastlines Newsletter
  • Air Pollution and Water Quality
  • Performance Indicators Visualization and Outreach Tool Introduction (PIVOT)
  • Volunteer Estuary Monitoring: A Methods Manual
  
  
  
• Watershed Information
  • Surf Your Watershed
  • The Watershed Protection
  • Top Ten Watershed Lessons Learned
  • Watershed Events
  • Adopt Your Watershed
  • Watershed Academy Training Programs
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• Monitoring Information
  • Volunteer Monitoring
    
  • Volunteer Estuary Monitoring: A Methods Manual
    
  • National Estuary Program Monitoring Guidance
    
  • Monitoring Consortiums:
    A Cost-Effective Means to Enhancing Watershed Data Collection and Analysis
  
  
  
• Nonpoint Source Pollution Information
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  • Coastal Non-Point Source Pollution Control
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• Other Marine and Coastal Information
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    • Cookbook of Innovations in Coastal Protection
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    • Treasured Waters: Protecting Our Coastal and Marine Resources
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  • Oceans and Coastal Regulatory Programs
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Office of Science and Technology Home Page
(Part of the Office of Water)

• Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS)
  Integrates a geographic information system (GIS), national watershed data, and state-of-the-art environmental assessment and modeling tools into one convenient package. Available for download.
• BEACH Watch
  Information on local beach water quality, and state and local beach monitoring programs.
• Shellfish Home Page
• National Strategy for the Development of Regional Nutrient Criteria
• Contaminated Sediment Home Page
• Effluent Guidelines

Related Programs

• American Heritage Rivers
• Clean Water Action Plan
• The Chesapeake Bay Program
• Great Lakes Program
• Mississippi River Basin Task Force
• Gulf of Mexico Program Information Network
• South Florida Initiative
• River Corridors and Wetlands Restoration

Environmental Financing

• Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection
• EPA's Environmental Finance Program
  • Environmental Finance Program: A Guidebook of Financial Tools
• Office of Wastewater Management
  • Financial Assistance- General Information
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Financing
  • The Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program
    • Funding Estuary Projects Using the CWSRF [pdf]
    • The CWSRF: How to Fund Nonpoint Source and Estuary Enhancement Projects [pdf]
    • Cleaning Up Polluted Runoff with the CWSRF [pdf]
    • Protecting Wetlands with the CWSRF [pdf]
    • The CWSRF and the Clean Water Action Plan [pdf]

Growth, Sustainable Development, and Land-Use Planning
(Also see non-governmental organizations related to this topic.)

• Region 3 Sustainable Development Home Page
• Region 5 Antidotes to Sprawl Home Page

Technical Information

• National Environmental Monitoring Initiative
  
• Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)
  

• Mercury Study Report to Congress
• Envirofacts
  Environmental data warehouse, including information on Superfund, hazardous waste, Toxic Release Inventory, Water Discharge Permits, grants, Maps on Demands, and more.
  
• STORET
  Computerized repository for water quality and biological monitoring data.
  

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Coastal America
A partnerhsip for action.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) Home Page

• State of the Coast Report
• Sea Grant Program
• Coastal Services Center
• Sustainable Seas Expeditions
  • Coastal Change Analysis Program
    A program to monitor change in terrestrial land cover and nearshore benthic resources within coastal environments of the United States.
• National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• National Marine Fisheries Service
  Commercial and recreational fisheries, marine endangered species, marine mammals
  • Essential Fish Habitat (Sustainable Fisheries Act / Magnuson-Stevens Act)
• Coastal Oceans Program (COP)
  Coastal research and data.
• National Ocean Service (NOS)
  
  • Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM)
    
    • Coastal Programs Division
      Administers the Coastal Zone Management Act.
      
    • Sanctuaries and Reserves Division
      Administers the National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) System and the National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) Program.
      
      • NERR Estuary-Net Project
        
  • Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment (ORCA):
    Oceanic research and data.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home Page

• Coastal Habitat Conservation Programs
  • National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program
• North American Wetlands Conservation Act
• National Wetlands Inventory
• Endangered Species Program
• National Conservation Training Center
• Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program

National Parks Service

• Wild and Scenic Rivers
• Underwater Wonders of the National Parks
  Directory of environmental data and research.
• Rivers and Trails Conservation Assistance - National Park Service

U.S. Department of Agriculture Home Page

• Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Home Page
  Formerly the Soil Conservation Service.
  
• Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, 1996-97
  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Natural Resources and Environment Division. Agricultural Handbook No. 712.
• Funding Sources for Water Quality
  The Water Quality Information Center at the National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service.
• Backyard Conservation

U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) Home Page

• Biological Resources Division
  Formerly the National Biological Survey
• National Biological Information Infrastructure
  An electronic gateway to biological data and information maintained by federal, state, and local government agencies; private sector organizations; and other partners around the nation and the world.
• Water Resources
• Water Information Coordination Program
• National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program
• Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS)
  Remote sensing and other data.

President's Council on Environmental Quality

Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development (Department of Energy)

U.S. Department of Transportation

• Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21)
  Federal Highway Administration

Federal Maritime Commission

Army Corps of Engineers

United States Navy

• Uniform National Discharge Standards

United States Coast Guard

• Marine Safety and Environmental Protection
• Sea Partners Program

National National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS)
• NASA's Global Change Master Directory
  Directory of environmental data and research.

Multi-Agency and Multi-State Organizations and Initiatives

• Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force
• Stream Corridor Restoration
• Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference
• Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
• National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP)
  Multi-agency program established by Congress to coordinate oceanic research.
• National Water Quality Monitoring Council
  Multiple government agencies. Formerly the Intergovernmental Task Force on Monitoring Water Quality (ITFM)
• National Environmental Data Index (NEDI)
  Environmental data from multiple federal departments and agencies.
• Watchable Wildlife

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Associations of Government Agencies or Representatives

• Coastal States Organization
• National Association of Counties
• International City/County Management Association
• Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators
• Local Government Environmental Assistance Network
• American Water Works Association
• American Association of Port Authorities
• International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies

Marine and Coastal

• Association of National Estuary Programs (web site in progress)
  For information, contact Derek Busby, ANEP Chair, St. Johns River Water Management District, P.O. Box 1429, Palatka, Florida 32178. phone: 904-312-2318. fax: 904-329-4329. e-mail: derek_busby@district.sjrwmd.state.fl.us.
• Year of the Ocean 1998
• Center for Marine Conservation
• Restore America's Estuaries
• Estuarine Research Federation
• Surfrider Foundation
• Reef Environmental Education Foundation
• SeaWeb
• Academy of Natural Sciences' Estuarine Research Center
• Coral Reef Alliance
• Coast Alliance

Fisheries

• National Fisheries Institute
• American Fisheries Society
• National Shellfisheries Association
• Fish Unlimited

Water Quality and Watersheds

• Watershed Management Council
• Know Your Watershed
  Sponsored by the Conservation Technology Information Center.
• Water Environment Federation
• National Ground Water Association

Wetlands

• Save Louisiana Wetlands
• WetNet: The Wetlands Network

Rivers and Streams

• River Network
• American Rivers
• International Rivers Network
• Save Our Streams

Agriculture and Erosion

• International Erosion Control Association

Growth, Sustainable Development, and Land-Use Planning
(Also see EPA links related to this topic.)

• Smart Growth Network
• Sustainable Communities Network
• Trust for Public Land
• PlannersWeb
• American Planning Association
• Urban Land Institute
• International Institute for Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Development Gateway
• The Natural Step

Habitat, Wildlife, Biodiversity, and Land Stewardship

• Reef Ball Designed Estuary Habitats & Restoration
  Reef Balls are state of the art designed aquatic habitats uses to restore ailing estuaries helping to provide habitat for fish and other aquatic lifeforms. Over 50,000 Reef Balls have been used worldwide and in several NEP programs.
• Restore America's Estuaries
• Ocean Mammal Institute
• The Nature Conservancy
• Wildlife Habitat Council
• Trust for Public Land
• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
  • Shell Marine Habitat Program
• American Forests
• Biodiversity Conservation Network
  Posted by the Biodiversity Support Program, a consortium of World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and World Resources Institute, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
• The Society for Conservation Biology
  Publishes the Journal Conservation Biology.
• Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
  Wetland, forest, avian, and marine conservation, research, and environmental education.
• Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Education

• Marine Environmental Education Foundation
• Ocean Link
• Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials
• River of Words
  International environmental poetry and art contest for children.
• Environmental Education on the Internet
• National Marine Educators Association
• National Environmental Education and Training Foundation
• National Ocean Sciences Bowl
• Project Learning Tree

International

• International Maritime Organization
• United Nations
  • United Nations Environment Program
    • Global Program of Action for the Protection of the
      Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities
      
  • United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
    • Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
    • 1998 International Year of the Ocean
  • Ocean98
• Canadas
  • Oceans Canada
  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• Intercoast Network International Newsletter
• Marine Conservation Society (United Kingdom)
• Stockholm Environment Institute

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Estuarine Research Federation

Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education

Sea Grant Program

National Acedemy of Sciences / National Research Council

• National Research Council Ocean Studies Board
• National Academy Press
  More than 1,000 books online.

Academy of Natural Sciences' Estuarine Research Center

American Fisheries Society

Ecological Society of America

• Issues in Ecology

American Institute of Biological Sciences

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

• Harmful Algal Blooms Page
• ECOHAB: The Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms, A National Research Agenda

Center for Coastal And Land-Margin Research
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology

Urban Harbors Institute
A public policy and scientific research institute at the University of Massachusetts

University of Rhode Island Coastal Resources Center
Focus on coastal resources management.

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers University, New Jersey

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Focus on coastal environments.

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Florida Marine Research Institute

Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology
A national institute sponsored by NOAA and the University of New Hampshire.

Ocean Link
A marine science information and interaction web site, posted by
a partership of aquaria and academic institutions.

Ecosystem Management
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment

Center For Coastal and Watershed Systems and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Mote Marine Laboratory

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Northeast

• Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
• Gulf of Maine Information System
• Casco Bay
  • Casco Bay Online
    Directory of Casco Bay information: fishing, businesses, recreation, tides, etc.
    
  • Spatial Analysis Lab: Casco Bay Estuary Project
    GIS data from the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation and Research Center.
    
• Sandy Point Discovery Center
  Education headquarters for the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in New Hampshire.
• Great Bay Modeling
  Modeling and other information about Great Bay, New Hampshire, sponsored by the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology.
• Massachusetts Coastal Orthophotos
  An Internet Geo-Image Library for the Massachusetts Coast
• Massachusetts Bay Information Server
  A clearinghouse for data and information sponsored by the MIT Sea Grant College Program and the USGS.
• Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Program
  Includes brief information on the Buzzards Bay and the Massachusetts Bays NEPs.
  
• Save the Bay (Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island)
• U.S. EPA Region 2
  • Volunteer Monitoring Home Page
    
  • National Estuary Program Home Page
• Northeast Chapter of the American Littoral Society
• Hudson River Foundation
  
• Save the Sound (Long Island Sound)
• Friends of the Bay (Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York)
• Save the Peconic Bays
• Long Island South Shore Estuary Reserve Council
• Merrymeeting Bay
• Kennebec Estuary
• Norwalk River Watershed Association
• Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
• Alliance for a Living Ocean
• Narragansett Bay Commission

Great Lakes

• Great Lakes Program
• EPA Region 5 Antidotes to Sprawl Home Page
• State Atlas - Ohio
• Great Lakes Fishery Commission

Southeast
(Including Florida, but see Gulf of Mexico section for information on specific Gulf Coast Florida estuaries)

• U.S. EPA Region 3
  • Shallow Water Habitat Home Page
  • Volunteer Monitoring Home Page
    
  • Sustainable Development Home Page
• Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment
  An ecosystem-based assessment of the mid-atlantic region sponsored by EPA Region 3 and the Office of Research and Development.
• Delaware River Basin Commission
  • Regional Information Management Service
    Information management service dedicated to assisting in data management, data access and regional communication for evironmental issues in the Delaware River Basin.
• Chesapeake Bay
  • The Chesapeake Bay Program
    Partnership between EPA, the Chesapeake Bay Commission, the District of Columbia, and the States of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania
    • Chesapeake Information Management System
      
  • EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office (Region 3)
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation
  • Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
    • The Bay Journal
  • Chesapeake Bay Information Network
    
  • Chesapeake Bay Center
    Maryland Department of Natural Resources
• Coastal Marsh Project
  Partnership of NASA and the University of Maryland to analyze the condition of coastal marshes.
  
• U.S. EPA Region 4 Community-Based Environmental Protection Initiatives
  Includes information on Region 4 National Estuary Programs.
• North Carolina Coastal Federation
• TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) Case Study: Tar-Pamlico Basin, North Carolina
  
• State of Florida
  • St. John's Water Management District
    
  • South Florida Water Management District
    
  • Southwest Florida Water Management District
    • Xeriscape
      Environmentally-friendly landscaping
      
  • Florida Marine Research Institute
• Florida Internet Center for Understanding Sustainability
  An educational network from the Florida Center for Community Design and Research.
• Indian River Lagoon
  • Florida Yards and Neighborhoods for the Indian River Lagoon
    Environmentally-friendly landscaping
    
• Everglades
  • South Florida Initiative
  • South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force
  • Everglades Information Network
  • NOAA's South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Prediction and Modeling

Gulf of Mexico

• Gulf of Mexico Program Information Network
  
• Gulf Estuary Programs
  Posted by the Gulf of Mexico Program. Includes information on Gulf NEPs and NERRs.
• U.S. EPA Region 4 Community-Based Environmental Protection Initiatives
  Includes information on Region 4 National Estuary Programs.
• Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council
• Tampa BayWatch
  Non-profit environmental stewardship program
• Louisiana
  • USGS National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana.
  • Louisiana Coastal Restoration Web Site
    Funded by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act.
  • Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
• Texas General Land Office Coastal Programs
  • Coastal Management
  • Texas Wetland Information Network
• Texas Watch Volunteer Environmental Monitoring Program
  
• Texas Water Resources
  Water quality newsletter posted by Texas A & M University.
• Save Louisiana Wetlands

West Coast

• California Coastal Conservancy
• Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority
  Includes information on the Southern California Bight Pilot Project.
• San Francisco Bay-Delta
  • CALFED: Bay-Delta Program
  • San Francisco Estuary Institute
  • San Francisco Bay, Estuary and Coastal Online Information Resources
    
  • Access USGS: San Francisco Bay Delta
    Information on spatial data in the San Francisco Bay area from the University of California, Berkeley.
    
  • Research Program in Environmental Planning and Geographic Information Systems
    
  • Save San Francisco Bay Association
• Napa County Resource Conservation District
  Includes the Napa River Watershed Owner's Manual.
• Save Our Shores
  Non-profit organization focused on Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
• U.S. EPA Region 10
  • Region 10: Tillamook Bay Home Page
  • Region 10: Puget Sound Home Page
• INFORAIN
  InfoRain is the Bioregional information system for the North American rainforest coast. Providing accessible and useful information and data at multiple scales; bioregion, watershed and community. Includes mapping, bioregional news, community indicators, contacts and links, forums and conferences, and estuary, marine, forest, and watershed environmental information.
• The Bullitt Foundation
  Grants for the protection and restoration of the environment of the Pacific Northwest.
• Adopt-a-Stream Foundation (Northwest)
  
• Columbia Basin Research
  From the University of Washington School of Fisheries. Includes a list of Columbia River Links
• Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
  Chartered by the Chief of the Forest Service and Director of the Bureau of Land Management, the ICBEMP, through an open public process, is developing a new management strategy for public land administered by the two agencies in eastern Oregon and Washington, Idaho, western Wyoming, western Montana and portions of northern Utah and northern Nevada.
• The Inland Columbia River Basin Ecosystem Management Project
  Posted by the University of Montanna School of Forestry.
• Estuary Planning
  A resource from the Oregon Coastal Management Program
• Mountains to Sound Greenway
  Connects the scenic, historic and recreational resources of Washington State along Interstate 90 in a green corridor from the foothills of the Cascade Mountains to the shores of Puget Sound.
• Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Environmental Initiatives
  
• SoundWeb
  From the non-governmental organization People for Puget Sound.
• Heal the Bay
• Puget Soundkeeper Alliance

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National Library for the Environment
EnviroLink
Ocean Link
SeaWeb
Wetland Hot Links
Environmental Education on the Internet
CasChem Laboratories: Water and Chemical Testing

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