National Coastal Data Development Center

In 2000, NOAA established the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) as the coastal division of the NODC at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi to provide a national capability for the "archive of, and access to the long-term coastal data record." NCDDC is a major component of the NODC. Since its inception, NCDDC has been tasked to work closely with coastal data providers to ensure applicable data standards are employed on all data and associated metadata delivered through NCDDC, as well to maintain a catalog of available coastal data and provide access to that data. NCDDC was chartered to broadly work with coastal data providers including Federal, State, local agencies, academic institutions, non-profit organizations and the private sector to create a "unified", long-term collection of coastal data. Most significantly, NCDDC is tasked to have strong science-based capacity and to produce "retrospective analyses and trend information to help form the basis of environmental predictions and public policy."

NCDDC, NODC, and the NOAA Central Library are integrated to provide access to the world's most comprehensive sources of marine environmental data and information.