Winners of the Dr. Nancy Foster Award must demonstrate exceptional achievement and dedication to habitat conservation in the coastal and marine environment.
Winding side channels and other habitat improvements can help recover salmon, making them less vulnerable to flooding or other extreme conditions associated with climate change.
NOAA’s California Veterans Corps program, providing post-9/11 veterans with opportunities to protect fisheries resources, is now engaged in restoring abalone along the California coast.
The team removed more than 160,000 pounds of lost or abandoned fishing nets and plastics from the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, an ecologically and culturally significant area, part of the Papahānaumokuāea Marine National Monument.
Learn how the NOAA Veterans Corps provides opportunities for veterans to build their skills while they help conserve endangered salmon and steelhead in California.
NOAA and partners hosted orientations for nearly 100 new GulfCorps members, underserved youth and vets who’ll receive hands-on job training and employment in habitat restoration in the Gulf of Mexico.
Roughly $2,606,000 will fund 24 projects in four states around the Chesapeake Bay watershed--including 13 new projects in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.
