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Newswave Fall 2019/Winter 2020 NEWSWAVE NEWS FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR: OCEAN, GREAT LAKES, AND COASTS Special Feature—Award-Winning Conservation Signage see p. 18 Fall 2019/Winter 2020 Ocean Agencies Meet to Conserving Discuss Critical Marine Leatherback Turtles Minerals By Claudia Lombard (USFWS) and Kelly Stewart (NOAA Affiliate) By Ann Tihansky (USGS) Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys BOEM-NOAA-USGS coriacea) are one of the largest rep- On July 30 and 31, 2019, the tiles on Earth. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) USCRTF co-chairs and members visit aboard the sustainable modified traditional model of One of the largest populations of nest- hosted representatives from the sailing vessel, Vaka Motu Oceanus, in Koror, ing leatherbacks in the United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Palau. Left to right: Jim Reilly (USGS Director), uses the largest beach area (3.2 kilo- (BOEM), the National Oceanic and Doug Domenech (Assistant Secretary meters of continuous beach) in the Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Insular and International Areas, DOI), Tommy Virgin Islands within the Sandy Point E. Remengesau, Jr. (President of Palau), at the USGS Pacific Coastal and National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) on Marine Science Center for an “Explor- RDML Tim Gallaudet (Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). atory Interagency Critical Marine NOAA-Deputy Administrator), and Michael The refuge land is greater than Minerals Discussion” in Santa Cruz, Stoker (EPA Regional Administrator, Region 400 acres in extent and was purchased CA. The informal face-to-face meet- 9). Photo credit: Ann Tihansky, USGS in 1984 to help conserve sea turtles. ing covered ongoing and anticipated Federal agency interest and plans U.S. Coral Reef Task related to critical marine minerals. It Force Holds 42nd was the first time that representatives from the three agencies met face-to- Meeting in Palau face to discuss their specific critical By Ann Tihansky (USGS) marine mineral plans and activities. Amid an active typhoon season in 2019, U.S. Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF) members and support- ing staff traveled to Palau, one of the Freely Associated State members of the USCRTF. Palau is the 13th smallest nation in the world, and was DOI Assistant Secretary Doug Domenech the host of the 42nd USCRTF Meet- (center in black shirt), joined staff from Office ing which was held in Koror, Palau, of Insular Affairs, USFWS, NPS, and student from September 9 to 13. It had been interns at Sandy Point NWR in St. Croix, USVI. Standing (left to right) Mike Evans, See Palau Task Force page 32 Dwayne Petersen, Deputy Director NPS Dan Smith, Buck Island Reef National Monument BSEE Safety Initiatives NPS Superintendent Gregory Camacho, Doug Domenech, Shreya Banerjee, Claudia Support Record Oil Lombard, and Ana Roman. Front row (left to Dark blue areas outline the EEZ of the United right): Angela Picknell, Dana DeSousa, Nina States and affiliated islands. The U.S. EEZ is Production Mauney, and Emma Dlutkowski. Photo credit: larger than its land area. Image credit: NOAA By BSEE USFWS See Ocean Agencies Meet page 4 See BSEE Oil Production page 6 See Conserving Turtles page 3 NEWSWAVE • Fall 2019/Winter 2020 Connect to News and Multimedia via Social Media In This Edition LIKE and FOLLOW us on Facebook: Critical Minerals Meeting ......................1 https://www.facebook.com/USInterioroceancoastsgreatlakes/ U.S. Coral Reef Task Force .....................1 Record Oil Production ...........................1 Oceans of Trash Conserving Leatherback Turtles...........1 Marine debris continues to enter the ocean Ocean Mapping ......................................6 each year, outpacing efforts to remove it. BSEE Underscores Safety ......................6 What’s scarier still: The global problem BSEE Finalizes Regulations ...................7 affects more than wildlife. Plastics have New Bridge at Katmai National Park ....8 entered the human food chain through the water we drink and the fish we eat. The Ocean Data Reports ...............................9 impact on human health is not yet fully Knauss Fellows Visit DOI .................... 10 known. But here’s the thing—If we rec- Restoring Brown Pelican Rookery ..... 11 ognize we’re part of the problem, we can Western Snowy Plovers Return ......... 12 take steps to stop it at the source. See related story, page 22. A Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) Wings of Hope in the Great Lakes ..... 13 skeleton on Midway Atoll reveals a belly full of Innovation at Kill Devil Hills, NC ........ 14 Read more: https://www.fws.gov/refuges/ plastic. Baby albatrosses born on Midway, more features/OceansOfTrash.html than 2,000 miles from other land, are fed the plastic Sand Restores Louisiana Coastline ... 15 by their parents. One study by the Monterey Bay Future OCS Sand Resource Needs ..... 16 https://www.fws.gov/refuges/features/ Aquarium found that 96% of chicks had plastic OceansOfTrash.html in their stomachs. See more photos here: https:// Explore Coastal Change at ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/seabirds/laysan-albatrosses- Fire Island, NY ............................... 16 plastic-problem Photo credit: Chris Jordan (USFWS) Optimizing Seafloor Mapping ........... 17 SPECIAL FEATURE: Award Winning Oregon Coastal Conservation Thousands of pounds of marine debris Signage ......................................... 18 collect on the shores of Midway Atoll as Regional Partnership Meetings ......... 20 well as on other remote shores every year. Marine Debris is a Serious Issue ........ 22 Continual cleanup requires significant management and staff in these remote Fish Slam! ............................................ 24 areas. Photo by Holly Richards, USFWS The Black-Capped Petrel .................... 26 Great Lakes Habitat Improvement .... 26 NEWSWAVE is a quarterly newsletter from the Department of the Interior featuring ocean, South Bay San Francisco Conservation Great Lakes, and coastal activities across the Bureaus. Champion ..................................... 27 Visit us online: https://www.doi.gov/pmb/ocean/newswave Monitoring HABs in Editor: Ann Tihansky (USGS) New York Lakes ............................. 30 Technical Editor: Rebekah Davis (USGS); Layout: Bethany Fuss (USGS) The Surfing Bison: Award-Winning Contributors: Nadine Leavitt Siak, USFWS NOAA Oregon Coastal Conservation BSEE Claudia Lombard, USFWS Mark Eakin, NOAA Signage ......................................... 32 BOEM Dawn Marsh, USFWS Kelly Stewart, NOAA affiliate Darryl Francois, BOEM Jon Myatt, USFWS Dan Schneider, White House Michael Plummer, BOEM Meagan Racey, USFWS Council on Environmental Contribute to NEWSWAVE! Christine Taylor, BOEM USGS Quality If you have any questions, Marjorie Weisskohl, BOEM Laura Brothers, USGS Edwards Sweeney, Santa comments or want to receive BLM Mary Brown, USGS Barbara Museum of Natural NEWSWAVE by email, contact: Jeff Fontana, BLM Jessica Fitzpatrick, USGS History Sea Center Ann Tihansky: [email protected] NPS Guy Foster, USGS Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Michael Bilecki, NPS Jennifer Graham, USGS Great Lakes Piping Plover For more information, contact: R. Jensen, NPS Kaitlin Kovacs, USGS Conservation Team Liza Johnson, Ocean, Great Lakes, J. Koster, NPS Erika Lentz, USGS Monmouth University and Coasts Coordinator, Office of Kathy Krause, NPS Jennifer Miselis, USGS The Ocean Conservancy the Assistant Secretary for Insular Eden Saunders, NPS Elizabeth Nystrom, USGS University of Wisconsin– and International Affairs M. Whalen, NPS Elizabeth Pendleton, USGS Green Bay USFWS Barry Rosen, USGS Amy Carrozzino-Lyon, UW– 1849 C Street, NW, Mail Stop 3117 Vince Cavalieri, USFWS Pamela Schofield, USGS Green Bay Washington, D.C. 20240 Carol Damberg, USFWS Heather Schreppel, USGS Kevin Doyle, photographer Telephone: 202–208–1378 Alicia Wilson, USFWS Richard Snell, USGS Cole Goco, illustrator [email protected] Chris Jordan, USFWS 2 NEWSWAVE • Fall 2019/Winter 2020 Conserving Turtles continued from page 1 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Leatherback Sea Turtle Facts (USFWS) and National Oceanic and Adult leatherback sea turtles are Threats to sea turtles in the marine Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) highly migratory and believed to be environment include: fisheries work together to develop the most pelagic of all sea turtles. and implement recovery plans for • trawl, purse seine, hook and line, Habitat requirements for juvenile and gill net, pound net, longline, and sea turtles, in close coordination with posthatchling leatherbacks, however, trap fisheries; stakeholders. Recovery plans pro- are virtually unknown. Nesting • oil and gas exploration, develop- vide a blueprint for conservation of females prefer high-energy beaches ment, and transportation; the species and measurable criteria with deep, unobstructed access, to gauge progress toward recovery. which occur most frequently along • pollution; The highly migratory behavior of sea continental shorelines. Characteristics • underwater explosions; of these turtles: turtles makes them shared resources • dredging; among many nations, so conserva- • Females weigh on average 600– • offshore artificial lighting; tion efforts for sea turtle populations 800 pounds and have an average • power plant entrapment; in one country may be jeopardized by carapace length of 155 centimeters activities in another. This means that • Long distance migrations (St. Croix • entanglement in debris; protecting sea turtles on U.S. nesting to Nova Scotia) • ingestion of marine debris; beaches
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