About the Program
2006 Projects by Region
Nationwide
- 2006 International Coastal Clean-up
- A Web-based Education Campaign for Marine Debris Awareness and Prevention for NOAA's Marine Debris Program
- An Integrated PDA-GPS Protocol for Marine Debris and Oil Spill Cleanup, Mitigation and Decision-Making
- Interagency Marine Debris Coordinating Committee
- NOAA Abandoned Vessel Program
- Socio-economic Costs and Benefits of Marine Debris Abatement
Pacific
- Marine Debris Monitoring: a West Coast partnership with at sea surveys to use seabirds as indicators of plastic pollution (California)
- Derelict Fishing Gear in Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary: Surveys, Removal protocol development, and Removal feasibility assessment (California)
- NOAA-UPSAC Fishing Line Recycling Program (California)
- Census of Marine Debris (Pacific Ocean)
- Quantifying Marine Debris in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean (Pacific Ocean)
- Marine Debris Education Campaign for Guam (Guam)
- Marine Debris Outreach for Hawaii Cruise Lines (Hawaii)
- Take Action on Marine Debris (Hawaii)
- Marine Debris Location and Removal in the Main Hawaiian Islands and Vicinity (Hawaii)
- Prevention of Vessel Debris through Inspections and Outreach (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands)
Gulf Coast
- Post-Hurricane Marine Debris and Underwater Obstruction Assessment and Marking in Calcasieu Lake, LA (Louisiana)
- Regional Monofilament Recovery and Recycling Program (Florida, Texas)
- Gulf of Mexico Marine Debris Mapping Project
Atlantic
- Identification, Mapping and Assessment of Derelict Fishing Gear in the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland)
- Marine Debris Removal in Right Whale Habitats (Massachusetts)
- Removal of Derelict Fishing Gear from Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Shipwrecks (Massachusetts)
- Removal of Marine Debris used as Lobster Aggregating Structures [Casitas] (Florida)
- Terminating Trash in the Anacostia Watershed (Maryland)
- Tire Reef Cleanup: Determining viable disposal options for 1+ million tires recovered from Florida Reefs (Florida)
