Flower Garden Banks NMS Map

NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries Program partnered with NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information to create an on-line GIS-based mapping tool of the Flower Garden Banks Sanctuary.

Bathymetry, biological information, management zones, oil and gas activities, oceanographic data, and remotely operated vehicle tracks with associated underwater photographs are made available through this tool.

The information available from this website is the result of an enormous effort by many partners, including USGS, University of New Hampshire, Minerals Management Service, NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration, National Undersea Research Center - University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Smithsonian Institution, Long-Term Monitoring contractors, students, volunteers and interns, and dozens of marine scientists who assisted in the identification process.

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National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Flower Garden Banks
National Marine Sanctuary

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Select A Bank:			Shaded Relief of Banks	Bathymetry of Banks (in meters)

	Geologic Banks (click on bank to view more information)

	Banks - Habitat Characterization

	Gulf of Mexico Gazetteer

	Artifical Reefs (LA and TX)

	Bathymetry - Regional

	Boundaries - National Marine Sanctuaries

	Boundaries - No Activity Zone

	Boundaries - Outside No Activity Zone

	Boundaries - HAPC

	Boundaries - Lease Blocks

	Buoys - Mooring

	Buoys - NDBC (click on buoy to view live condition reports)

	Climatology - Mean Sea Surface Temperatures
	Generate Vertical Water Temperature Profile

	Analysis - Bottom Water Temperatures (banks only)

	Analysis - Photosynthetically Available Radiation (banks only)
	FDA Advisories - Ciguatera

	Oil and Gas Pipelines

	Oil and Gas Platforms (click on any platform for more details)

	Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Dives (click on track to view photos)

	Shipping Fairways

	Weather - Radar (current)

Click two or more input points on the map to calculate a distance

Use Measure Tool

Clear Route

There are two ways to view photographs.

1) Use the dropdown list to select a geologic bank or click on one of the geologic banks (red dots) on the map. If there are any photographs available for a geologic bank, a new tab called "Images" can be used to access the pictures. You can view photographs by selecting a particular dive for the geologic bank.

2) If the remote operated vehicle's dive tracks are drawn on the map (yellow lines), clicking on any of these lines will generate a popup window containing links to the photographs of that particular dive.