by MARCO | Feb 17, 2015 | Home Page News Item, News
A Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan will support shared regional objectives for a healthy ocean ecosystem. The ecosystem supports abundant life such as this humpback whale surfacing off of Manhattan, an occurrence that researchers from Gotham Whale report is...
by MARCO | Feb 17, 2015 | Home Page News Item, News
New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Department of State (DOS) recently released for public comment a draft comprehensive ten-year New York Ocean Action Plan (OAP) which seeks to promote the restoration, conservation, resiliency...
by MARCO | Dec 5, 2014 | Home Page News Item, News
A Message from the MARCO Management Board Kris Ohleth is departing her position as MARCO’s Executive Director on January 31, 2015. The Management Board truly appreciates the knowledge, hard work and passion that Kris has contributed to the MARCO team during...
by MARCO | Dec 2, 2014 | Home Page News Item, News
Image above: Members of the Shinnecock Nation, along with non-Native American volunteers, help move a canoe from the beach in Hampton Bays, New York. Photo: Michael Heller/The Sag Harbor Express By Kris Ohleth Engaging the Native American tribes indigenous to...
by MARCO | Nov 25, 2014 | Home Page News Item, News
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO) has been selected by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) to receive a grant award of $340,000 to implement a program that will disseminate...
by MARCO | Oct 6, 2014 | Home Page News Item, News
Download Media Release 6 October 2014 | by Arlo Hemphill BALTIMORE. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO) has recently adopted a Course of Action to consider and develop recommendations to strengthen federal protection of submarine canyon habitats....
