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Project researchers prepare to release a 45-pound lake sturgeon caught at the Detroit River spawning reefs

Michigan Sea Grant project enhances habitat for native lake sturgeon:
Most people know the Detroit River as a major commercial waterway connecting the upper and lower Great Lakes.

This marine profiling instrument can motor up and down the cable to prescribed depths

2006 Arctic Research Cruise:
The Nansen-Amundsen Basin Observation System (NABOS) research cruise was held in late summer of 2006 aboard the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn (KD). 

DART II System schematic shows a surfacec buoy, tsunameter and communications and control methods

The History of Tsunami Hazard Mitigation:
The history of tsunami hazard mitigation tracks well with the history of destructive tsunamis in the United States.

A shipboard view of a ferry in Nantucket Sound

Ferries as Ships of Opportunities in Plankton Research:
The islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, lying off the coast of Cape Cod, are well-known tourist destinations: their summer populations can soar to five and ten times winter levels.

High school students characterize intertidal habitat.

NOAA's Kasitsna Bay Laboratory, a natural laboratory for marine research and education:
The Kasitsna Bay Laboratory (KBL) is a unique partnership between NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS) and Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), through the National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

GFDL model output shows a decrease in annual mean daily maximum 8-hour surface ozone mixing ratios

Linking climate and air pollution - Methane emission controls yield a double dividend:
An important area of research at GFDL is investigating the contribution of methane to surface ozone pollution, and quantifying the potential benefits to air quality and climate from controls on methane emissions.

microcystis at Stone Lab on Lake Erie

Something in the Water:
Anyone visiting Lake Erie over the last few summers has seen it–that thick, green algae floating over large stretches of the lake's coastline.

Conchoecissa imbricata is about 2 mm long

Zooplankton Defined:
After NOAA supported a Census of Marine Life program to measure zooplankton in the Sargasso Sea, I wondered if people on the street had any idea what plankton was.

Tropical Storm Chris satellite view on August 1, 2006

NOAA Prepares for the 2006 Hurricane Field Research Program:
The Hurricane Research Division of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, FL, is pleased to once again partner with NASA and other collaborators in the field to coordinate our research of Atlantic Hurricanes.

Trout migrate to their spawning grounds

Bile isn't Vile: Identifying the Scent that Lures Trout Home:
If a Lake Superior Kamloops could talk, it still might not care to reveal what Minnesota Sea Grant-funded graduate student Ben Thwaits has painstakingly discovered: the smell of certain compounds found in fish excrement help adults of this strain of migratory trout find their way home.

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6/4/2007