GulfCorps: Gulf Coast Restoration Work Gives Young People Jobs, Pathway to Career and Life Success

NOAA’s Office of Habitat Conservation awarded The Nature Conservancy $12 million to fund the GulfCorps program for the next 3 years. The program will employ 150 crew members to restore and enhance 5,000 acres of coastal habitat.

Home Page Navigation


Two Hawaiian monk seals swim near an aquaculture net pen full of fish. NOAA Fisheries, in collaboration with Blue Ocean Mariculture, is conducting a multi-year pilot study to evaluate observational methods and tools for studying Hawaiian monk seal behavior. Courtesy of Blue Ocean Mariculture
Healthy coral reef with fishes in the foreground, a diver conducts a survey in the background. A scientist carefully hovers above the reef off of Kailua-Kona to take photographs while swimming along a transect line. He took more than 1,000 photos of this single transect that will be stitched together to form a 3D model of this reef. It will be interesting to see how this reef with high coral cover has changed over time! Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Dani Escontrella
Photograph of two scientists on a small boat preparing glider for deployment. Oregon State University professor David Mellinger and Doug Batson from the Oregon Coast Aquarium prepare the Seagliders for deployment off the coast of Oregon in mid-September. They were aboard the Oregon Coast Aquarium’s vessel, the R/V Gracie Lynn. Photo courtesy Genece Grisby, Oregon Coast Aquarium.
Artist's concept of the restored Similk Estuary. Credit: Artist Studio, llc. Artist's concept of the restored Similk Estuary. Credit: Artist Studio, llc.
NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement agent, U.S. Coast Guard officers, and Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources rangers process seized eels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement agent, U.S. Coast Guard officers, and Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources rangers process seized eels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Credit: NOAA Fisheries
Crew aboard a fishing vessel preparing a net Getting the net ready to fish. Credit: NOAA Fisheries