Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary selects an annual Volunteer of the Year to commemorate the efforts of a volunteer—or group of volunteers—who make an exceptional impact on the sanctuary’s goals and efforts.
Undergraduate and graduate students can get involved in their sanctuary through annual internship opportunities. Internships are project specific to support research, communications, resource protection, or operations at the sanctuary.
Images, graphics, posters, maps of Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary
The Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council serves as a primary link between sanctuary administrators and the community, as well as a forum for citizen participation in sanctuary management.
Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary is a natural live-bottom protected area that may be important in connecting recreationally, commercially, and ecologically important species to other areas of the West Atlantic Ocean.
Recruitment for Sanctuary Advisory Council seats generally occurs in late spring and late fall.
A permit is required when an individual or organization wishes to conduct an activity within Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary that is otherwise prohibited.
Find dates, locations, agendas, summaries, and other materials for this year’s Sanctuary Advisory Council meetings.
Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary may not be accessible to most people, so its importance is emphasized through education and outreach programs. Sanctuary staff work to get ocean literacy-based programs into schools and informal programs by working with the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and local partners.
Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary is an ocean park teeming with life. The natural live-bottom habitats of the sanctuary are representative of others across the region. The sanctuary provides year-round opportunities for sport fishing, recreational diving, and boating. The research area within the sanctuary hosts one of the only designated no-take zones in the region, which makes Gray’s Reef a catalyst for scientific research studying water quality, ocean noise, hurricane prediction, and climate change.
