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Sea Grant-funded Researcher "Fingerprints" Wild Rice
As historic populations of wild rice around the Great Lakes region have shrunk, they have also become fragmented. By examining the plant’s genetic makeup, one researcher hopes to reveal critical evidence to aid restoration.
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Lionfish Invasion: Super Predator Threatens Caribbean Coral Reefs
Indo-Pacific lionfish are rapidly invading the waters of the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic. Due to their population explosion and aggressive behavior, lionfish have the potential to become the most disastrous marine invasion in history by drastically reducing the abundance of coral reef fishes and leaving behind a devastated ecosystem. Dr. Mark Hixon and his team from Oregon State University with support from NOAA’s Undersea Research Program (NURP) have embarked on the first studies to measure the severity of the crisis posed by this invasive predator.
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Local Decision Maker: Helping Indiana Communities Plan Their Future
In Indiana, it has become much easier for local officials to consider natural resources as they develop land use plans for their community. Local Decision Maker (LDM) is a GIS-based online resource rich with research data on environmentally sensitive areas, open space, streams and rivers, and potential sources of contamination.
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![The hull remains of the so-called “Black Rock Wreck” were measured and compared to the dimensions of known shipwrecks off East Caicos. Through a meticulous process of elimination, the archaeological team was able to rule out all of the ships except the Spanish slave ship Trouvadore.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/2008/images/hull_remains_small.jpg) |
NOAA-supported mission discovers historic shipwrecks off Turks and Caicos Islands :
Maritime archaeologists have identified the wrecks of two historic ships, including the slave ship Trouvadore, off the coast of East Caicos in the Turks and Caicos Islands after several years of archaeological research funded by NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. Don Keith and Toni Carrell, from the underwater archaeology research institute Ships of Discovery, were able to identify the Trouvadore 167 years after it struck a reef in 1841 while en route to Cuba.
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![Dr. Venkatachala Ramaswamy, Acting Director of NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, presenting at the colloquium](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/2008/images/noaavisitsindia.jpg) |
NOAA Team Visits India's Ministry of Earth Sciences for the First India - U.S. Science Colloquium on Earth Observations and Science:
Under the leadership of Dr. Chet Koblinsky, Director of the NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), a NOAA team visited India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) in mid-September |
![Study participants wade out in marked lanes in the water to conduct exposure activities](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/2008/images/limulus_a.jpg) |
Project Limulus Bringing Insights to Horseshoe Crab Conservation and Sustainable Harvest:
Connecticut Sea Grant helps fund a research effort that will create a knowledge base about horseshoe crabs. Researchers and volunteers along the Connecticut and Long Island shorelines find the horseshoe crabs and record information such as size, sex, mating habits and location, then tag the crabs to monitor the movements of the animals after they are released. |
![Study participants wade out in marked lanes in the water to conduct exposure activities](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/beaches_a.jpg) |
NOAA
helps keep south Florida beach goers “in the know” when
it comes to their health:
Beaches are a popular destination for local Floridians and vacationers
alike in the Miami area. |
![NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/okeanos08_a.jpg) |
Live,
from Seafloor to Scientists Ashore:
NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer, “America’s
Ship for Ocean Exploration,” is on a course to be the only U.S.
ship assigned to systematically explore our largely unknown ocean for
the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge. |
![A trawl takes an early morning dip into a glassy Delaware Bay.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/larvalfish_a.jpg) |
Scientists Join Forces
for Regional Fisheries Research:
It’s an act of nature that goes largely
unnoticed. Every year, larval fish — barely visible to the naked
eye — leave their birthplace in the offshore Atlantic and make
their way into the waters of the Delaware and Chesapeake bays. |
![Misery Bay Sinkhole](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/sinkhole_a.jpg) |
Great Lakes Exploration: Lake Huron’s Sinkholes:
During a 2001 Lake
Huron Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary survey, Dr. Dwight Coleman
(Institute for Exploration) first discovered a series of offshore freshwater
underwater sinkholes at a depth of approximately 100 meters, formed by
a unique series of environmental processes. |
![Workers install the radiating face of the phased array antenna during construction of the NWRT.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/radar_a.png) |
The
Future of Weather Radar:
Radar is one of the most valuable tools in a forecaster’s
arsenal and NSSL continues to use ingenuity and creativity to push
radar technology to the edge. |
![Comparison of DIDSON and traditional echosounder images](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/herring_a.gif) |
Sonar
Reveals How Herring Respond to Predators:
Throughout much of coastal Alaska Pacific herring are important
prey to whales, seals, sea lions, birds and other predators, but
little is known about how these predators influence herring populations. |
![Weekly communication map for the New Hampshire Coastal Watershed Land Conservation Planning group shows a tight cluster of communication.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/communications_a.png) |
UNH
Researcher Is Mapping the Flow of Communication:
Troy Hartley could be considered a cartographer of human communication. |
![A modeled computer product showing mercury wet deposition over the US for 2001](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/mercury_a.png) |
Seeking
a Better Understanding of Atmospheric Mercury:
It may be the name of a car, a planet, and a Roman god, but (as
best we know) none of those are toxic to humans or the environment. |
![Researchers on board ship retrieve the REMUS from the ocean.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/seawater_a.jpg) |
A
River In The Sea - Sea Grant-Funded Researcher Takes New Look At
Impact of Wintertime Coastal Currents :
All in all, physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz admitted,
he could have decided on a research topic more conducive to warm
days in the bright blue waters of the Caribbean, drifting along with
the lazy currents in and amongst the coral reefs. |
![Global land biogeochemistry and ecology model used in GFDL’s Earth System Model](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/climatemodel_a.jpg) |
The
Future of Climate Modeling at GFDL - The Earth System Model:
NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) has
been constructing the next generation Earth System Model (ESM) to
advance our understanding of how the Earth’s biogeochemical
cycles, including human actions, interact with the climate system. |
![SCUBAnauts Collin Olson and Anna Moran display the Operation: Deep Climb banner and Explorer’s Club flag #61, with HURL Operations Director Terry Kerby looking on.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/deepclimb_a.jpg) |
NOAA Supports Young
Explorers in Seafloor to Mountaintop to Outer Space Challenge:
NOAA’s Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) is inspiring
a new generation of explorers to discover the deep ocean. |
![A juvenile hybrid striped bass used in vaccine studies.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/vaccine_a.jpg) |
First
Live-Attenuated Vaccine for S. Iniae in Development:
In preliminary trials, NOAA Sea Grant researchers have for the
first time demonstrated the feasibility of using a live-attenuated
vaccine to prevent the deadly Streptococcus iniae infection in fish. |
![dried up and cracked river bottom](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090505234341im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/sarp_a.jpg) |
Study
Completed on Research and Networks for Decision Support in the
NOAA Climate Sectoral Applications Research Program:
In response to NOAA’s and the U.S. Climate Change Science
Program’s strong and continued interest in providing timely
climate information for effective decision-making, the NOAA Climate
Program Office established the Sectoral Applications Research Program
(SARP) in 2005. |
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