NOAA
HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT TO EMBARK ON EAST COAST TOUR April
23, 2007 � NOAA hurricane experts
will travel aboard a NOAA
WP-3 Orion turboprop Hurricane Hunter in a five-day, five-city tour
of the East Coast beginning April 30 to raise public awareness of hurricanes
that can threaten the Atlantic Seaboard. (Click NOAA image collage
for larger view of students visiting a NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft
during the 2006 hurricane awareness tour. Click
here for high resolution version. Please credit “NOAA.”) “We
spend considerable time talking with children on the aircraft. If any
of them take that message home to their parents, many more lives can
be saved. This is a great way to teach hurricane awareness,” said
James McFadden, PhD., chief of programs at the NOAA
Aircraft Operations Center.
NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department, is celebrating 200 years of science and service to the nation. From the establishment of the Survey of the Coast in 1807 by Thomas Jefferson to the formation of the Weather Bureau and the Commission of Fish and Fisheries in the 1870s, much of America's scientific heritage is rooted in NOAA. NOAA is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and information service delivery for transportation, and by providing environmental stewardship of the nation's coastal and marine resources. Through the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with its federal partners, more than 60 countries and the European Commission to develop a global monitoring network that is as integrated as the planet it observes, predicts and protects. Relevant Web Sites NOAA Aircraft Operations Center NOAA Hurricane Preparedness Week Media
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