National Marine Sanctuaries Documents
This page provide a series of scientific, educational, and technical publications related to NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary Program listed chronologically as received.
External Reviews
Department of Commerce Office of the Inspector General
Report
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2008
Document Size: 1.9 MB
National Academy of Public Administration Report
Author(s): National Academy of Public Administration
Year: 2006
Document Size: NA
National Academy of Public
Administration Report
Author(s): National Academy of Public Administration
Year: 2000
Document Size: 1.7MB
National Academy of Public
Administration Report
Author(s): National Academy of Public Administration
Year: 2021
Document Size: 1.8MB
General Accounting Office Report
Author(s): Comptroller General of the United States
Year: 1981
Document Size: 3.6 MB
External Review Team
Report
Author(s):NOAA
Year: 1993
Document Size: 11.9 MB
Rapid Management Plans
Channel Islands NMS Rapid MPR
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2018
Document Size: 401 KB
Olympic Coast NMS Rapid MPR
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2018
Document Size: 303 KB
Thunder Bay NMS Rapid MPR
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2018
Document Size: 0.99 MB
NMS of American Samoa Rapid MPR
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2018
Document Size: 595 KB
Stellwagon Bank NMS Rapid MPR
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2018
Document Size: 1.25 MB
Greater Farallones NMS Rapid MPR
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2019
Document Size: 562 KB
Cordell Bank NMS Rapid MPR
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2019
Document Size: 2.19 MB
Gray's Reef NMS Rapid MPR
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2019
Document Size: 553 KB
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale NMS MPR
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2020
Document Size: 4 MB
Management Plans and EIS
American Samoa National Marine Sanctuary Management Plan
and Environmental Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2012
Document Size: 33 MB
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Final
Environmental Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1980
Document Size: 33 MB
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Final Management
Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2009
Document Size: 3.1 MB
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Final
Environmental Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2008
Document Size: 4 MB
Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Final Management
Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2008
Document Size: 3.8 MB
Cordell Bank National Mairne Sanctuary Final Environmental
Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2008
Document Size: 7.9 MB
Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Final Managment
Plan - Updated in Response to the Sanctuary Expansion
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2014
Document Size: 2.5 MB
Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones National Marine
Sanctuaries Final Impact Statement for the Expansion
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2014
Document Size: 14.5 MB
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Final Management
Plan/ Environmental Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1996
Document Size: 43.5 MB
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Revised Management
Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2007
Document Size: 4 MB
Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Final
Management Plan/ Final Environmental Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1991
Document Size: 9.5 MB
Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuaries Final
Management Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2012
Document Size: 5 MB
Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Final
Environmental Assessment
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2012
Document Size: 2.6 MB
Flower
Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Final Environmental Assessment Volume I
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2020
Document Size: 8.2 MB
Flower
Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Final Environmental Assessment Volume II
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2020
Document Size: 25.8 MB
Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Final Management
Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1983
Document Size: 5.1 MB
Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Final Impact
Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1983
Document Size: 15.7 MB
Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Final Management
Plan/ Final Environmental Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2006
Document Size: 3.8 MB
Gray's Reef
National Marine Sanctuary Management Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2014
Document Size: 1.7 MB
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Final
Environmental Impact Statement Vol. 1
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1980
Document Size: 41.1 MB
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Final
Environmental Impact Statement Vol. 2
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1980
Document Size: 29.1 MB
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Final
Management Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1987
Document Size: 13.9 MB
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Final
Management Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2008
Document Size: 8.8 MB
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Final
Environmental Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2008
Document Size: 7.9 MB
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Final
Management Plan - Updated in Response to the Sanctuary Expansion
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2014
Document Size: 3.1 MB
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine
Sanctuary Final Management Plan/ Final Environmental Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1997
Document Size: 36.3 MB
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
Management Plan (HIHWNS)
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2002
Document Size: 5.1 MB
Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary Management Plan
(FL Keys)
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1983
Document Size: 3.7 MB
Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary Designation Final Environmental Impact Statement and Final Management Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2024
Document Size: 7 MB
Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary Management Plan
(FL Keys)
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1983
Document Size: 4.3 MB
Mallows Bay – Potomac
River National Marine Sanctuary Designation Final Environmental Impact Statement and Final Management
Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2019
Document Size: 6.7 MB
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Final Environmental Impact
Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1975
Document Size: 583K
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Management Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1983
Document Size: 2.8 MB
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Management Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1996
Document Size: 262K
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Final Environmental
Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2008
Document Size: 5.9 MB
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Final Management
Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2008
Document Size: 30 MB
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Final
Environmental Impact Statement Vol. 1
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1993
Document Size: 35.2 MB
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Final
Environmental Impact Statement Vol. 2
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1993
Document Size: 27 MB
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Final Management
Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1994
Document Size: 2.4 MB
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Final Management
Plan and Environmental Assessment
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2011
Document Size: 7.7 MB
Papahānaumokuākea Marine Nationa Monument Management
Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2008
Document Size: 7.8 MB
Papahānaumokuākea Marine Nationa Monument Final Environmental
Assessment
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2008
Document Size: 12.3 MB
Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary Final Environmental Impact Statement: Volume I
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2024
Document Size: 2.9 MB
Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary Final Environmental Impact Statement: Volume II
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2024
Document Size: 18.4 MB
Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary Final Environmental Impact Statement: Appendix K
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2024
Document Size: 694 KB
Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary Final Environmental Impact Statement: Appendix K1
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2024
Document Size: 24.4 MB
Proposed
Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Management
Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2021
Document Size: 9.55 MB
Stellwagen Ban National Marine Sanctuary Final
Management Plan and Enivrionmental Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1993
Document Size: 8.7 MB
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Final
Management Plan and Enivrionmental Assessment
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2010
Document Size: 16.7 MB
Thunder Bay Final Evironmental Impact Statement
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 1999
Document Size: 3.4 MB
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Final Environmental
Assessment
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2009
Document Size: 89.4 MB
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Final Management
Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2009
Document Size: 3 MB
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Final
Environmental Impact Statment for the Expansion
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2014
Document Size: 4 MB
Wisconsin
Shipwreck Coast
National Marine Sanctuary Designation Final Environmental Impact Statement and Final Management
Plan
Author(s): NOAA
Year: 2020
Document Size: 4 MB
Policy Permitting or Regulations
Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment for
Potential White Shark Research and Education Projects in Gulf of the Farallones and Monterey Bay
National Marine Sanctuaries.
Author(s):NOAA
Year: 2014
Document Size: 7MB
Policy and Permit Guidance for Submarine Cable
Projects
Author(s):NOAA
Year: 2011
Document Size: 185K
Record of Decision for the Final Programatic
Environmental Impact Statement on Coral Restoration in the Florida Keys and Flower Garden Banks
National Marine Sanctuaries
Author(s):NOAA
Year: 2011
Document Size: 2.2 MB
Final Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement For Coral Restoration In The Florida Keys And Flower Garden Banks National Marine
Sanctuaries
Author(s):NOAA
Year: 2010
Document Size: 1.6 MB
NOAA's Regulation of Fishing in National Marine
Sanctuaries
Author(s):NOAA
Year: 2008
Document Size: 116K
Remediation for the Pacific
Crossing-1 North and East Submarine Fiber Optic Cables in the Olympic Coast National Marine
Sanctuary
Author(s):NOAA
Year: 2005
Document Size: 2.9 MB
Final Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement for Seagrass Restoration in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Author(s):NOAA
Year: 2004
Document Size: 2.8 MB
Fair Market Value Analysis for a Fiber Optic Cable
Permit in National Marine Sanctuaries
Author(s):NOAA
Year: 2002
Document Size: 108K
Tortugas Ecological Reserve Final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement/ Final Supplemental Management Plan (FL Keys)
Author(s):NOAA
Year: 2000
Document Size: 4.5 MB
Research and Monitoring
2016 Flower Garden Banks
Localized Mortality Event Mini-Symposium Report (2018)
Posted: June 2018
Document Size: 2.7MB
National Marine Sanctuary System Condition
Report (2013)
Posted: June 2013
Document Size: 6.7MB
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Spatial Bibliography: A Science-Planning Tool (2007)
Author(s): Christine Taylor and David Moe
Nelson
Posted: February 2008
Document Size: 4.7MB
Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary Condition
Report (2007)
Posted: August 2007
Document Size: 6.7MB
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Condition
Report (2007)
Posted: April 2007
Document Size: 8.5MB
Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology Northwestern Hawaiian
Islands Research Partnership: Quarterly Progress Reportts V-VI (2006-2007)
Posted: January 2007
Document Size: 3.5MB
Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Research Partnership Quarterly Progress Reports
II-III (2005-2006)
Posted: March 2006
Document Size: 1.3MB
A Monitoring Framework for the
NMSP (2004)
Posted: January 2005
Document Size: 1.6MB
Broad-Scale Non-indigenous Species Monitoring along the West Coast in National Marine Sanctuaries and National Estuarine Research Reserves (2005)
Author(s): partneship between Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, National Estuarine Research Reserve System, National Marine Sanctuary Program, and Other institution (for
taxonomists), see Appendix A
Posted: August 2005
Document Size: 4.7MB
US Geological Survey, NOAA/National Marine Sanctuary Program's Seabed Mapping Initiative: 2002-2003 Annual Report (2003)
Author(s): Brad Barr, Senior Policy Advisor and East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes Regional Coordinator, NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary Program
Posted: 2003
Document Size: 4.2MB
Sanctuary Science: Evaluation of Status and Information
Need (2002)
Author(s): Steve Gittings, Kimberly Benson, Paula Souik, and Mitchell Tartt
Posted: 2002
Document Size: 3.6MB
Integration of NOAA Aerial Monitoring and GIS Programs for
Research, Education, and Management within the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
Author(s): Ben Waltenberger and M. Pickett
Document Size: 220K
The Status of GIS Coordination Efforts within the Southern
California Bight
Author(s): Catherin A. Schwemm, L.A.K. Mertes, and B. Waltenberger
Document Size: 28K
NMSP/USGS Joint Seabed Mapping Initiative:
Sanctuary Mapping Priorities Identification Process (2004)
Author(s): Christine Taylor, Geographer & Brad Barr, Senior Policy
Advisor and East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes Regional Coordinator
Posted:October 2004
Document Size: 3.5MB
Community Capacity Building in the Designation of the
Tortugas Ecological Reserve (2002)
Author(s): Joanne M. Delaney, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Posted:2002
Document Size: 628K
Integrating Science into the Design of the Tortugas
Ecological Reserve (2001)
Author(s): Benjamin D. Cowie-Haskell, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
Joanne M. Delaney, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Posted:2001
Document Size: 960K
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary: Proceedings of
the 1998 Research Workshop
Author(s): C. Edward Bowlby, B.A. Blackie, and J.K. Parrish
Document Size: 560K
A Rapid Assessment of Coral, Fish, and Algae Using
the AGRRA Protocol
Author(s): Christy Pattengill-Semmens, S.R. Gittings, and T. Shyka
Document Size: 184K
Workshop on Marine Mammal Research & Monitoring
in the National Marine Sanctuaries (Wailea, Maui, HI)
Author(s): Sarah Fangman and J. Roletto
Document Size: 392K
Conservation Series
Visit the Conservation Series Web Site
Education and Outreach
National Marine Sanctuary System Education
Plan (2000)
Author(s): National Marine Sanctuary Program
Posted:2000
Document Size: 1MB
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Brochure
Author(s): National Marine Sanctuary Program
Document Size: 280K
Island Ecology Safari Educational Programs at Catalina
Author(s): Julie Goodson and A. Willingham
Document Size: 40K
Hawai'i's Marine Protected Species (A Handbook for
Ocean Users - 2001)
Author(s): National Marine Sanctuary Program
Posted: 2001
Document Size: 528K
Responsibly Watching California's Marine Wildlife:
Handbook for Ocean Users
Author(s): National Marine Sanctuaries/NOAA Fisheries
Document Size: 1.5MB
Maritime and Cultural Resources
Graveyard of the Atlantic Report
Author(s) and Contributor(s): Joseph Hoyt, James P. Delgado, Bradley Barr, Bruce
Terrell and Valerie Grussing
Posted: 2014
Document Size: 7.2MB
The Search For Planter The Ship that Escaped
Charleston and Carried Robert Smalls to Destiny
Author(s) and Contributor(s): Bruce G. Terrell, Gordon P. Watts & Timothy J.
Runyan
Posted: 2014
Document Size: 8.5MB
Unlocking the Secrets of Swains
Island: a Maritime Heritage Resources Survey (2013)
Author(s) and Contributor(s): Hans K. Van Tilburg, David J. Herdrich, Rhonda Suka,
Matthew Lawrence, Christopher Filimoehala, Stephanie Gandulla
Runyan
Posted: 2020
Document Size: 6.7MB
Fathoming Our Past (2007)
Author(s) and Contributor(s): John Broadwater, Kekuena Kikiloi, Matthew Lawrence,
Wayne Lusardi, Deborah Marx, Joylynn Oliveria, Julie Taomia, Bruce G. Terrell, Hans Van Tilburg
Posted: 2009
Document Size: 9.7MB
Maritime Archaeology Program
Brochure (2003)
Author(s): National Marine Sanctuary Program
Posted: 2003
Document Size: 116K
Report on Mapping Maritime Heritage Resources in
National Marine Sanctuaries (2003)
Author(s): Brad Barr, Senior Policy Advisor and East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and
Great Lakes Regional Coordinator, NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary Program
Posted: 2003
Document Size: 1.1MB
General Reports
Regulatory Flexibility
Assessment for the Joint Management Plan Review of Monterey Bay, Greater Farallones, and Cordell Bank
National Marine Sanctuaries
Author(s): Vernon R. Leeworthy, Danielle Schwarzmann, and Max Delaney
Posted: July 2019
Document Size:691K
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis for the
MPAs in Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary: A 10-year Review
Author(s): Vernon R. Leeworthy, and Danielle Schwarzmann
Posted: May 2017
Document Size:574K
A Facilities Master Plan for Gulf of the Farallones
National Marine Sanctuary
Author(s):Facility Programming and Consulting with TranSystems
Posted: January 2015
Document Size:15.9MB
A Facility Strategy for Olympic Coast National Marine
Sanctuary
Author(s):Facility Programming and Consulting
Posted: January 2015
Document Size:1.7MB
A Conceptual Site Plan for Kure Atoll
Author(s):Facility Programming and Consulting
Posted: January 2015
Document Size:10.96MB
National Facilities and Exhibits Plan 2010
Author(s):Facility Programming and Consulting with TranSystems
Posted: January 2015
Document Size:40.41MB
A Facility Strategy for the Kaua'i NOAA Sanctuary Discovery
Center
Author(s):Facility Programming and Consulting
Posted: August 2011
Document Size:4.7MB
Charrette Report for the Stellwagen Bank National Marine
Sanctuary Marine Operations Center
Author(s):Black and Veatch Special Projects Corp. with Facility Programming and
Consulting
Posted: August 2011
Document Size:13.2MB
Downtown Savannah Outreach Market Study
Author(s):Facility Programming and Consulting
Posted: August 2011
Document Size:12.5MB
Downtown Savannah Outreach Facility Study
Author(s):Facility Programming and Consulting
Posted: August 2011
Document Size:9.1MB
Master Plan Update: Improvements to the Hawaiian Islands
Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
Author(s):Facility Programming and Consulting
Posted: August 2011
Document Size:11MB
Action Plan for the Kalauha'iha'i (Lucas Spring) Fishpond
Restoration Project
Author(s):Facility Programming and Consulting with Fraser and Fogle Architects and
Leeway Enterprise
Posted: August 2011
Document Size:9.2MB
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Requirements
Document
Author(s):Ferraro Choi and Associates with TranSystems and Facility Programming and
Consulting
Posted: August 2011
Document Size:1.1MB
Facilities and Exhibits Master Plan Executive
Summary
Author(s):Facility Programming and Consulting and TranSystems prepared the National
Facilities and Exhibits Master Plan.
Posted: February 2011
Document Size:1MB
Airborne Platform Requirements FY 2006 - FY
2015
Author(s):U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Ocean Service, National Marine Sanctuary Program
Posted: July 2008
Document Size:3.2MB
Small Boat Requirements Study FY 2006 - FY
2015
Author(s):U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Ocean Service, National Marine Sanctuary Program
Posted: July 2008
Document Size:8.4MB
National Marine
Sanctuaries Program Final Inspection Report
Author(s): U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General
Document Size:1.9MB
Small Boat Requirements Study, FY2003-FY2013
Author(s): National Marine Sanctuary Program
Document Size: 360K
Partnerships in the National Marine Sanctuary
Program (2004)
Parterships Table:/library/national/partnershipstable.pdf
Author(s): National Marine Sanctuary Program
Posted: July 2005
Document Sizes: 80K, 92K
National Marine Sanctuary Advisory
Council
Handbook (2010)
Author(s): Office of National Marine Sanctuary
Posted: 2002
Document Sizes: 796K
Pre-Construction Coral Survey of the Wellwood (FL)
Grounding Site
Author(s): National Marine Sanctuary Program
Document Size: 124K
Coordinator Reports
National Marine Sanctuary Program Research Coordinators
Meeting Report (2006)
Author(s): National Marine Sanctuary Program
Posted: February 2006
Document Sizes: 664K
National Marine Sanctuary Program Research Coordinators Meeting
Report (2005)
Author(s): NMSP
Conducted: February 2005
Document Sizes: 376K
National Marine Sanctuary Program Research
Coordinators Meeting Report (2004)
Author(s): NMSP
Conducted: February 2004
Document Sizes: 244K
Brochure
Channel Islands Shipwreck Brochure
Author(s): ONMS
Document Size: 1.7 MB
Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Brochure
Author(s): ONMS
Document Size: 2 MB