The national oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA) is providing $1,835,196 in federal funding to the coastal states stewardship foundation, serving as fiscal sponsor for the west coast ocean…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,835,196 Cooperative Agreement to the Coastal States Stewardship Foundation, serving as fiscal sponsor for the West Coast Ocean Alliance (WCOA) Regional Ocean Partnership. This funding, provided through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law over the next two years, will support the WCOA in coordinating and enhancing tribal engagement, convening regional government partners, maintaining and promoting the West Coast Ocean Data Portal and a new Ocean Health Dashboard, and conducting a cumulative impacts assessment on ocean ecosystem stressors. The Cooperative Agreement is funded under NOAA's Office for Coastal Management (CFDA 11.473) program, which supports science-based coastal and estuarine habitat restoration, conservation, and resilience initiatives across the United States.

The national oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA) is providing $1,835,196 in federal funding to the coastal states stewardship foundation, serving as fiscal sponsor for the west coast ocean alliance (wcoa) regional ocean partnership through the bipartisan infrastructure law over the next two years. The bipartisan infrastructure law provides funding for established regional ocean partnerships (rops) to coordinate the interstate and intertribal management of ocean and coastal resources and to implement their priority actions, including to enhance associated sharing and integration of federal and non-federal data. Specifically the west coast ocean alliance will use these funds to coordinate and enhance tribal engagement in the west coast ocean alliance, to convene regional government partners to support information exchange and regional planning around shared ocean management interests, to maintain and promote regional use of the west coast ocean data portal and a new ocean health dashboard, and to conduct a cumulative impacts assessment on ocean ecosystem stressors.