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About ACT
The Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) is a NOAA funded partnership of research institutions, state and regional resource managers, and private sector companies interested in developing and applying sensor technologies for monitoring and studying coastal environments.

There is widespread agreement that for the successful implementation of an Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), and for effective coastal science and resource management, parallel efforts in instrument development and validation are required so that capable existing technologies can be recognized and so that promising new technologies can make the transition from research/development to operational status. Thus, ACT was established to serve as:

An unbiased, third-party testbed for evaluating new and developing coastal sensor and sensor platform technologies.

A comprehensive coastal technology specification/performance information clearinghouse.

 A forum for capacity building through a series of annual workshops on specific technologies.

ACT Headquarters is located at the UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and is staffed by a Director, Chief Scientist, and several support personnel. There are currently seven ACT Partner institutions around the country with sensor technology expertise that represent a broad range of environmental conditions for testing. The ACT Stakeholder Council is comprised of resource managers and industry representatives who ensure that ACT focuses on service-oriented activities. Finally, a larger body of Alliance Members has been created to provide advice to ACT, and are kept abreast of ACT activities.

Partners and their institution representatives:

Find out more about the Southeast ACT Center

Southeast ACT Newsletter
 

Each ACT partner is establishing a regional center to engage the scientific and coastal management communities and the private sector in the overall ACT program. This will be accomplished by the development of the Alliance Member, associated with each center, who will be kept informed about ACT activities and have opportunities to have input to the program.

COTS program funded by

Coastal Services Center
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