High-Water Mystery; nowCOAST; Wetlands Restoration (Episode 34)

A High Tide Mystery off the Atlantic Coast: NOAA's Tides and Currents office is investigating the causes behind an unusually high tide in June that stretched from Maine to Florida. nowCOAST: An online interactive map from NOAA's Office of Coast Survey provides an amazing amount of near real-time weather forecasts and ocean surface observations for all of the U.S. Texas Wetlands Restoration Project Completed: NOAA's Damage Assessment, Remediation and Restoration Program just completed shepherding a major coastal restoration project -- over 2,500 acres of wetlands -- near Port Arthur, Texas.