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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

So … How is climate affecting West Nile Virus this year? It depends on whom you ask:
Some say that this year’s 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.

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.

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.

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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