Welcome to the National Marine Sanctuary Program web site. Here you'll find information about our nation's marine sanctuaries -- their history and current management, their scientific and educational programs, and their continuing efforts to conserve our nation's ocean and coastal treasures. Our national calendar will keep you updated on the many exciting events that take place in our ...
Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary comprises one of the largest nearshore sandstone reefs in the southeastern United States. Named in recognition of Milton B. Gray, a biological collector and curator at the University of Georgia Marine Institute, who studied the area during the 1960s, it's located 32 kilometers (17.5 nautical miles) off Sapelo Island, Georgia. Sanctuary boundaries protect 17 ...
www.graysreef.nos.noaa.gov
USGS national geologic studies of benthic habitats, northern United States; Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts ...
woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/stellwagen
An underwater jewel of a garden in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Texas coast.
www.flowergarden.nos.noaa.gov
