An effort to restore eelgrass beds along Virginia's eastern shore began with people painstakingly planting 200 acres of eelgrass seeds by hand. Today, these eelgrass meadows have grown to 6,195 acres — providing a home for an estimated 240,000 bay scallops.

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Tiny sea urchins are helping to combat invasive algae in Kaneohe Bay—part of a restoration plan from the settlement of the 2005 grounding of the ship M/V Cape Flattery on the coral reefs south of Oahu. The grounding, and response efforts to free the ship, injured 19.5 acres of coral. Despite the injuries, the reef began recovering on its own. Rather than mess with that natural recovery, NOAA Fisheries, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Hawaii's Division of Aquacitec Resources focused on restoring coral reefs in Kaneohe Bay.

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Meet Christine Gallagher, acting chief of National Geodetic Survey's Communications and Outreach Branch. Christine helps ensure that the National Geodetic Survey's science, products, and services reach end-users. She enjoys solving problems, whether it involves learning how to take advantage of a new digital communication tool or communicating a complicated scientific issue. She says the hardest part of her job is conveying the value of things that people cannot physically see but are important to their daily lives, like geodetic datums.
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The rising and falling of the sea is a phenomenon upon which we can always depend. Tides are the regular rise and fall of the sea surface caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun and their position relative to the earth.There are some factors that cause the tides to be higher than what is "normally" seen from day to day. This bulletin tells you when you may experience higher than normal high tides for the period of time between March and May 2017.

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