Sanctuary Watch

Easy access to information for tracking ecosystem conditions, human connections, and management impacts is critical to timely, effective, community-based resource management. Sanctuary Watch brings that information to the fingertips of resource managers, scientists, educators, and the public through web-based, interactive tools .

The platform is a collaboration across NOAA’s IOOS Program (including MBON), the Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) Program, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), and the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS). Each sanctuary’s dashboard presents indicators organized around ecosystem status — physical drivers, biological response, and human connections — allowing managers to track trends across the variables that matter most for each sanctuary’s condition report.

Partners

This tool is the product of ongoing collaboration across NOAA’s Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Program , the Integrated Ocean Observing System — including MBON — and the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries .