ABOUT THE PORTAL
The West Coast Ocean Data Portal is a project of the West Coast Ocean Alliance, a Regional Ocean Partnership. We aim to increase the discovery and connectivity of ocean and coastal data and people to better inform regional resource management, policy development, and ocean planning. The Portal informs priority West Coast ocean issues such as tracking sources and patterns of marine debris, adaptation to sea-level rise, understanding the impacts of ocean acidification on our coasts, and marine planning.
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To learn more about the Portal, get updates, contribute your data, or provide feedback, please contact us.
The Portal links existing data systems together to provide an easy to use gateway to discover ocean and coastal data. Coastal decision-makers, researchers, and stakeholders use the Portal to access data and decision-support tools they need to understand and address high-priority regional issues. The Portal was funded through NOAA's Regional Ocean Partnership grant, which supported the development of tools to help coastal managers track marine debris to help prioritize clean-ups and advocate for policies to reduce the impact of trash on our beaches. The West Coast Regional Ocean Partnership is the West Coast Ocean Alliance.
SENTINEL ROCKS ON THE WASHINGTON COAST
The West Coast Ocean Data Portal is one of the many Regional Data Sharing Portals nationwide, along with their associated Regional Ocean Partnerships. Some examples of these portals include our sister portal, the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal (MARCO), with which we share our backend technology, and the Northeast Ocean Data Portal (NROC). Other regional portals include the Gulf Online Mapping Open Data Platform.
Acknowledgements
The West Coast Ocean Data Portal would not be possible without the contributions of the following agencies, organizations, and tribes.
- The Washington Governor's Office
- The Oregon Governor's Natural Resource Office
- The California Natural Resources Agency
- Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- MarineCadastre.Gov
- U.S Environmental Protection Agency
- U.S Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S Geological Survey
- Washington Department of Ecology
- Oregon Coastal Management Program
- Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
- California Ocean Protection Council
- California Coastal Commission
- OceanSpaces
- U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing Systems (IOOS)
- Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS)
- Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS)
- Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (SCCOOS)
- Yurok Tribe
- Quinault Indian Nation
- The Nature Conservancy
- Ecotrust
Photo Credits
HOMEPAGE (From Left – NOAA, Robert Schwemmer, Dana Murray, CSU Monterey Bay Seafloor Mapping); CONNECT (NOAA); INFORM (Roy Lowe, NOAA); ABOUT (Andy Lanier).