Ocean Zone News Blog

By Thomas Gounley Friday, October 2, 2009

Andrew Rosenbergy has been tapped by NOAA to help advise the White House.
University of New Hampshire Professor Andrew Rosenberg has been tapped by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to advise the White House on marine spatial planning over the next 90 days.
Rosenberg is a professor in the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture’s Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, as well as UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space.
“I am advising the President’s Council on Environmental (CEQ),” said Rosenberg. “They are responsible for coordinating the Ocean Policy Task Force.”

By Robert Montgomery
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com
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A new task force poses a serious threat to close fishing to recreational fishermen.WASHINGTON, D.C. — Until recently, threats to fishing access have been so diverse and so scattered that they have not raised collective concern among anglers.

Why should fishermen in Maine worry that the state of California has closed waters around the Channel Islands? Why should Texans be upset that the National Park Service blocked surf casters from reaching the beaches of Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina?

(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration is in the process of developing a new policy on the nation’s oceans, coastal areas and the Great Lakes, and its reach may extend well inland.

According to a Sept. 10 report from an Obama-appointed task force, “it is the policy of the United States to…[b]olster the conservation and sustainable uses of land in ways that will improve the health of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems.”

The new Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force – established on June 12, 2009 — held one of six regional public hearings last week in Providence, R.I., the Ocean State.

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

“Corporate Ocean Responsibility” leaders to meet in Belfast (15-17 June, 2010)

The “Sustainable Ocean Summit” – the first international, cross-sectoral ocean sustainability conference for the private sector – will catalyze the growing interest among ocean businesses for more effective leadership and collaboration in addressing ocean environmental challenges.

The World Ocean Council (WOC), an international business leadership alliance on ocean sustainability and stewardship, is generating significant attention from a range of industries worldwide, including shipping, oil and gas, fisheries, aquaculture, ports, mining, insurance, finance, renewable offshore energy, tourism, shipbuilding, dredging, marine technology and others.

01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, September 27, 2009

The Providence Journal / Andrew Dickerman

CHARLESTOWN — State geologist Jon Boothroyd warned that houses are raised on pilings along the South County beaches to avoid storm waves, but state and local officials use standards so old they do not account for 1 foot of sea level rise. If another hurricane like the one in 1938 hits, he said, his data shows the storm surge would roll right over the dunes and take out most of the houses along the beach.