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SPECIAL PROJECTS

54-10-01-0002-07

NA2700

N/MB7

Special Projects, a unit within the Ocean Service's Management and Budget Office, is a focal point for providing NOS and NOAA Program and Staff Offices with planning, data synthesis and assessment, and advanced technical services (e.g., GIS and web mapping, database development, and information visualization tools). Special Projects' primary goal is to promote integration of program capabilities within and across NOS and NOAA to ensure more effective and efficient delivery of products and services to the coastal stewardship community. Special Projects works to build capacity within NOAA and NOS by collaborating with internal partners to define problems and issues, identify information needs, assemble and synthesize relevant data, develop strategies, evaluate options, and develop products and results that contribute and support better coastal resource management decision-making. Special Projects also provides NOS with a quick response capability to anticipate and respond to emerging opportunities to further the coastal stewardship mission.

 

INTEGRATED PLANNING AND TECHNICAL SERVICES BRANCH

 54-10-01-0002-07-01

NA2710

N/MB71

The Integrated Planning and Technical Services Branch provides a range of planning, facilitation and advanced technology services to NOS Program and Staff Offices and partners. The Branch conducts a wide variety of consensus-based, process design and planning activities in support of NOS and NOAA priorities to address research, management, and planning issues. It develops and provides tools and processes to help ensure simple, consistent, and effective planning and decision-making within NOS, and provides expertise in organizational integration to NOS programs and its coastal stewardship partners. The Branch also has a special focus on managing and coordinating marine science investigations, integrating at-sea marine research efforts at a regional ecosystem level. It provides technical services to NOS offices, such as the development and implementation of internet mapping systems that create and deliver data sets from across NOS programs. Additional support services include oversight of operational and developmental servers on behalf of NOS, as well as database systems support for planning, assessment and web mapping activities in Special Projects.

 

COASTAL RESOURCES ASSESSMENT BRANCH

54-10-01-0002-07-02

NA2720

N/MB72

The Coastal Resources Assessment Branch (CRAB) provides NOS Program and Staff Offices and other partners with targeted information synthesis, analysis, and application development services to help coastal stewards find better solutions to the major coastal resource use issues facing the nation. These services include collecting, synthesizing, and analyzing data and other information to produce assessments of critical coastal resource use issues; and designing and building data collection and management tools and spatial analysis applications to support coastal management solutions. The Branch houses NOS's Coastal and Ocean Resource Economics (CORE) Program for conducting resource valuation assessments necessary to address priority management needs. The Branch also provides a national and regional perspective and seeks solutions that have significant technical transfer potential throughout the coastal stewardship community.