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NOAA atmospheric monitoring
facility in Hawaii marks milestone:
The NOAA Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii marked its 50th anniversary
as the premier atmospheric monitoring facility in the world. |
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Rare
success at rearing native California rockfish, lab fish celebrate
first birthday:
After more than a decade of studying rockfish
reproduction, growth and development, California Sea Grant biologists
have successfully reared brown rockfish from birth through their
critical life stages. |
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Alaskan
historic shipwrecks, including former Hassler, part of local and
NOAA heritage:
Funded by a grant from the NOAA Office of Ocean
Exploration, researchers and archaeologists from Alaska's
Office of History and Archaeology, NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary
Program, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks descended under
frigid southeast Alaskan waters between April 4-10, 2006, to collect
information on several of Alaska's most famous shipwrecks. |
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Centering
on people to save the environment:
Can smart growth save species? These and similar
questions are at the heart of a new center at the University
of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program (UH Sea Grant) that
seeks to reduce the impacts of the human footprint on our natural
environment. |
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Climate Prediction Applications Science (CPAS) Workshop:
Less than 10 days after the first rains fell
since mid-October for Phoenix, AZ (a record dry spell of 143 days),
the fourth annual Climate Prediction Applications Science (CPAS)
Workshop met outside of Tucson for an intense three and a half days
of presentations, panel discussions, posters, and dialogue on topics
ranging from drought preparedness to water management and health
and air quality. |
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NOAA
Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health - Making
strides in Forecasting, Partnerships, and Public Awareness:
With the summer months speedily approaching, residents of the Great Lakes Basin,
as well as thousands of visitors from around the United States, are looking
to the cool, refreshing waters of Great Lakes to relax, recreate, and rejuvenate. |
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The
Office of Weather and Air Quality - Leading Partnerships in Weather
Research:
“Everyone talks about the weather,
but nobody does anything
about it.” Thus goes a saying attributed to Mark
Twain. |
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Witnessing the birth
of an undersea mountain… and other exciting discoveries!:
Much of the South Pacific oceans remains scientifically
unexplored. Even less
is known about the undersea landscape of this tectonically active zone,
and very few deep submergence research missions have occurred due to
the limitations imposed by distance from land, water depth and availability
of resources. |
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In search of the source
of beach pollution, scientists monitor groundwater:
With NOAA support, two Stanford researchers will soon test
a theory that may explain chronic beach pollution in California and elsewhere. |
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Congressional team
takes an educational trip to observe climate and atmospheric research in
Antarctica:
The Global Monitoring
Division of NOAA's newly formed Earth
System Research Laboratory operates atmospheric
measuring instruments and facilities literally all over the world,
mostly in very remote places far from big cities and seats of government. |
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