National Marine Protected Areas Center

The National Marine Protected Center was established in 2000 to lead the development of a national system of marine protected areas, as called for in Executive Order 13158. The MPA Center is a partnership between NOAA and the Department of the Interior to serve as a resource to all federal, state, territorial and tribal programs responsible for the health of the nation's oceans, and is located within NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.

https://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov/

Related Organizations

US Department of the Interior (DOI)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Marine and Wind Energy Environmental Documents

Tethys is a knowledge hub that contains documents on the environmental effects of wind and marine energy. The table below contains all of the documents in the Tethys Knowledge Base associated with National Marine Protected Areas Center.

Total: 4

Title	Author	Date	Content Type	Technology	Receptor
The California Ocean Uses Atlas	Marine Conservation Biology Institute, NOAA's Marine Protected Areas Center	September 2011	Webpage		Marine Spatial Planning, Human Dimensions
The Hawaii Coastal Use Mapping Project	National Marine Protected Areas Center	September 2011	Webpage	Marine Energy	Human Dimensions, Marine Spatial Planning
The New Hampshire and Southern Maine Ocean Uses Atlas	National Marine Protected Areas Center	August 2011	Webpage		Human Dimensions, Marine Spatial Planning
State of the Nation's de Facto Marine Protected Areas	Grober-Dunsmore, R., Canny, D., D'Iorio, M.	May 2008	Report	Marine Energy	Human Dimensions, Marine Spatial Planning