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Colors provide more information about depths in this chart example.

NOAA Chart Makeover Promotes Safe Navigation, Stewardship:
NOAA's small-craft charts are among the fundamental navigational tools used by boaters in coastal waters.

Dana Tomlinson, helping Raye scrape off over 2000 barnacles (yes, she has to count them)

TAO/TRITON Teacher at Sea:
The NOAA Office of Global Programs and the National Science Foundation are proud to announce our newest Teacher at Sea, Mrs Dana Tomlinson, a 6th grade teacher from Emory Elementary School in San Diego, CA.

A researcher prepares to launch a laser line scan integrated with a tow body

Laser Line Scan Mapping for Seafloor Habitats:
Traditionally, population estimates of fished species have been based on the fishermen's catch and on data from trawl surveys conducted by government agencies.

Aerial view of winding river in an undeveloped watershed

Unique Collaborative Land Use Study Enters Field Research Phase:
How does land use influence ecosystems? And what role does rapid growth and development along the Southeast coast play?

Interior view of Explorer's ocean laboratory

NOAA Researchers Exploring the Sea
in a New Capacity:
Have you ever been aboard a cruise ship and wondered what was happening in the deep blue ocean below, or the star-studded skies above?

Deployment of experimental equipment to measure air-sea gas exchange in the Equatorial Pacific.

Carbon Cycle Science Breakthroughs. . . . at NOAA and Beyond:
Carbon is the backbone of life on earth, from the food that sustains us to the energy that fuels the world economies.

R/V Shenehon at Lake Michigan Field Station viewed from the pier

Fries to go?
Local efforts to save Oregon's native salmon runs by restoring their habitat are becoming a model for national watershed restoration efforts.

Sea Grant agent plants willow saplings to stabilize a riverbank.

Oregon Sea Grant's Experience with
Watershed Restoration Goes National:
Local efforts to save Oregon's native salmon runs by restoring their habitat are becoming a model for national watershed restoration efforts.

Adult Nassau grouper at a cleaning station on a coral reef.

Studying Nassau grouper spawning aggregations:
Around the world, tropical marine fishery species such as groupers (Family: Serranidae) are being overfished, with devastating ecological and economic consequences to coral reefs.

Information from the water samples taken by this instrument will be used to create a data graph that is used with other information to tell how the sun is heating the ocean.

EPIC Teachers at Sea:
The NOAA Office of Global Programs and the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric Sciences supported the placement of two teachers on board the Research Vessel Ronald H. Brown as part of the Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate (EPIC).

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2/14/2002