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Hawaiian bottomfish play hide and seek
in ancient reefs
NURP's Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory plays a
key role in helping define Hawaiian bottomfish habitat. |
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North American Monsoon
Experiment (NAME)
The North American
Monsoon Experiment (NAME) is an internationally coordinated research
program aimed at determining the sources and limits of predictability of
summertime precipitation over North America. |
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Are Marshes Losing Ground?
Imagine going back to a favorite spot from childhood--and
it wasn't there. If you went to visit a coastal salt marsh, it
could happen. |
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NOAA
scientists study storms to improve forecasts:
Day and night during May and June, a crew of fourteen
researchers and students will scramble to get in position beneath
storms in central Oklahoma to launch instrumented balloons.
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Rocked by Mother Ocean:
Here I am again on business travel, flying some
30,000 feet above sea level, locked in the pressurized compartment
of an airplane, peering down out of a small window on the aquamarine
blue Atlantic Ocean. |
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Retired Teacher in Mongolia Plays
Key Role in Worldwide Air Sampling Network:
At a remote outpost in the Gobi Desert, more than 12 hours
by train from the Mongolian capitol, Bamuu Dorjnorov fills two glass flasks
with air every week. |
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Adopt-A-Boat
Links Fishermen with Students:
When asked to define commercial fishing, a third grader in Dexter,
Maine, ventured, "Something on TV?" |
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Enhancing
Decision-Making Through Integrated Climate Research -- Alaska Region
Meeting:
Melting permafrost, loss of sea ice, increased severe storms, rapid
land cover change, fisheries health, coastal erosion, infectious
disease, decline of subsistence hunting: these are just a few of
the challenges facing communities and decision-makers in Alaska. |
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A
Particular Concern: Protecting Deep-Sea Corals:
Twenty miles off the coast of Florida, stretching from Daytona Beach
down to Ft. Pierce, close to the edge of the continental shelf,
deep-water coral reefs of Oculina varicosa, or the ivory
tree coral lie 150 to 300 feet beneath the water’s surface. |
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Clean
Marinas: Coming to a Harbor Near You:
Boaters cruising and docking in the northern Gulf of Mexico will
find a pleasant surprise this summer—marinas that are cleaner and
more efficient. |
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