NCCOS Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment: Biogeography Branch

"The Biogeography Branch conducts research, monitoring, mapping and assessments of the Nation's marine ecosystems as a part of NOAAs National Ocean Service (NOS), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), the Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA). The mission of the Biogeography Branch is to develop information and analytical capabilities through research, monitoring, and assessment on the distribution and ecology of living marine resources and their associated habitats for improved ecosystem management. Activities of the Biogeography Branch focus on developing products, applications and processes for defining, mapping and interpreting the relationships of species distributions and their environments. Most of the Branch's projects are done in cooperation with academic, state, federal and private sector partners."

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