Coral Reefs
I. Coral Reefs
II. Marine Sanctuaries
- Office of National Marine Sanctuaries / NOAA “The network includes a system of 13 national marine sanctuaries and Papahānaumokuākea and Rose Atoll marine national monuments.”
- Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Marine sanctuary off the coast of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in California.
- Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Point Reyes Station, CA, Wildlife Watching.
- Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary “The shoreward boundary of the sanctuary is the mean high-water mark, essentially meaning that once you set foot in Keys waters, you have entered the sanctuary.”
- Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary “It is the only sanctuary site located in the Gulf of Mexico.”
- Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary The marine sanctuary’s headquarters are located in Scituate, Mass.
- Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary Online site for largest near-shore “live-bottom” reefs of the southeastern US in Georgia.
- Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (GFNMS) The public Visitor Center on Crissy Field in the Presidio of San Francisco.
- Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary The Sanctuary Visitor Center is in Kihei, Maui.
- Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (MNMS) “On January 30, 1975, the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (MNMS) was designated our nation’s first national marine sanctuary.” Newport News, Virginia.
- Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) California marine sanctuary for whale watching, wildlife viewing, tide pooling and kayaking.
- National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa “NOAA co-manages the sanctuary with the American Samoa Government and works closely with communities adjacent to the sanctuary, all within the context of Samoan cultural traditions and practices.”
- Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Washington state marine sanctuary includes rocky reef habitats.
- Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument with extensive coral reefs.
- Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Marine sanctuary in Alpena, Michigan, with an online page about shipwrecks.