![Balloonist Steve Fossett flanked by Belgian meteorologists David Dehenauw and Luc Trullemans](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916092256im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/fossett_a.png) |
NOAA
helps guide balloonist around the world:
When Steve Fossett flew his successful solo around-the-world flight
in a balloon last summer, NOAA was right along with him. |
![Mark Eastburn, and Ana Maria Varela pose in front of the P-3](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916092256im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/salljex_a.jpg) |
SALLJEX
"Teachers in the Field":
The NOAA Office of Global Programs and the National Science Foundation
are proud to announce our SALLJEX Teachers in the Field: Mark Eastburn,
an elementary school teacher at Johnson Park School in New Jersey
and Ana Maria Varela, a high school teacher at the Nicolas Copernico
High School in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
![First official image from the Solar X-ray imager taken during on-orbit test.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916092256im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/sxi_a.png) |
SXI
- providing snapshots and movies of the sun for solar forecasters:
NOAA's latest tool to help solar forecasters predict space weather
is the Solar X-ray Imager (SXI), which is now sending real-time
images of the sun to NOAA's Space Environment Center (SEC) in Boulder,
Colo. |
![supertanker side profile](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916092256im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/ballast_a.jpg) |
Sea
Grant ballast water specialist confronts a world of aquatic nuisance
species:
Bathed in early morning light, the Mita Maru, a 900-foot-long
freighter leaves Hong Kong Harbor, bound for the Port of Seattle
to pick up a load of grain. |
![A researcher operates the Flowcytobot.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916092256im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/leo_a.png) |
Continuously
observing marine plankton in the coastal Mid-Atlantic:
The Rutgers LEO-15 Observatory off Tuckerton, NJ, is one of
the first coastal observing systems in the world. |
![A California sea otter mugs for the camera](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916092256im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/otter_a.jpg) |
Parasite
in Cats Killing Sea Otters:
Offering a partial explanation to a mysterious decline in southern
sea otter population, scientists have established a strong body
of circumstantial evidence linking cats to a lethal otter disease. |
![Birds are a reservoir host for West Nile Virus.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916092256im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/westnile_a.png) |
So
… How is climate affecting West Nile Virus this year? It depends
on whom you ask:
Some say that this years warmer winter temperatures may
have allowed increased survival of the mosquitoes involved in transmitting
the virus, resulting in higher mosquito populations earlier in the
year. |
![A technician adjusts a tether on Phantom III ROV](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916092256im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/underwaterweb_a.jpg) |
NOAA
Partnership Conducts Live Webcast from The Thunder Bay National
Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve:
The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve
is the newest of the thirteen National Marine Sanctuaries and is
only the second dedicated to the understanding and preservation
of submerged cultural resources. |
![A close-up view of a phased array radar on a Navy AEGIS destroyer.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916092256im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/par_a.jpg) |
NOAA
Researchers Helping Develop Radar of the Future:
Radar technology currently used to support tactical operations
aboard Navy ships will soon be adapted for a new purpose
weather detection. |
![Fingerlings "travel" in this tank to their final offshore destination.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916092256im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/snapperfarm_a.jpg) |
Puerto
Rico at the cutting edge of offshore aquaculture:
In May 2002, the first offshore aquaculture enterprise in Puerto
Rico was launched by Snapperfarm, Inc. and by August they began
stocking two Ocean Spar Sea Station cages, one with 12,000 cobia
and the other with 4,000 mutton snapper juvenile fish, in the waters
off of the island of Culebra. |
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