New Content on MARCO Website

Over the last three months MARCO has continued to add new and exciting content to its website. The updated “Ocean Planning” dropdown menu now contains a page dedicated to Work Groups and Collaborative Efforts, which links to individual work groups and highlights the...

Portal Update

A pair of new maps on the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal provide a glimpse at which coastal counties’ economies are most closely linked with the ocean. Both maps are digitized, interactive versions of maps that first appeared in MARCO’s 2018 report “Climate Change...

MARCO State Spotlight: New Jersey

As the most densely populated state in the nation with significant commercial and industrial areas, New Jersey represents a major load electrical center. However, the state is lacking an onshore wind resource capable of supporting the robust wind turbine generation...

States' News and Events

New York’s Geographic Information Gateway (Gateway) News   New Risk Areas data layer New York’s GIS Team has developed new (Department of State) Risk Areas for the Lake Ontario coast, data layer available for viewing on the Gateway.  DOS Risk Areas were...
Farewell to Kim Grubert, Maryland

Farewell to Kim Grubert, Maryland

Since 2014, Kim (Hernandez) Grubert worked in Maryland’s Chesapeake and Coastal Service advancing, among other things, the state and Mid-Atlantic’s ocean coordination and management efforts.  Kim and her husband recently relocated to Colorado and...
Farewell to Nicole Rodi, Delaware

Farewell to Nicole Rodi, Delaware

Nicole has played a supporting role for the MARCO management board since 2015, when she started at Delaware Coastal Programs. She was an active member in multiple work groups most notably the Marine Debris Work Group. Over the last year Nicole has worked with MARCO...