![Deployment of Buoy](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506105147im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/drifter1250_a.jpg) |
Deployment of Global
Drifter 1250 - Completion of the first component of the Global Ocean Observing System:
Global Drifter 1250 was launched near Halifax,
Nova Scotia this past fall, marking the full implementation of the first
component of the Global Ocean Observing
System (GOOS). |
![Size comparison of adult and young clams](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506105147im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/galapagos_a.jpg) |
Again
to Galapagos:
When I staff an exhibit booth for NOAA's Office of
Ocean Exploration, I sometimes gather audiences by asking a question. |
![Fishing ships docked at Harkers Island](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506105147im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/carteret_a.jpg) |
Carteret
Catch: New Marketing Project Promotes Local Seafood
When customers see the "Carteret
Catch" logo at Carteret County restaurants in eastern North
Carolina, they know that they are eating local delicacies. |
![One of LEO-15s nodes](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506105147im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/leo15_a.jpg) |
The Long-Term Ecosystem Observatory – A key piece of an Integrated Observing Network Puzzle
At the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
(IMCS) at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the home
of NOAA's Undersea
Research Program (NURP) Mid-Atlantic Bight Center, oceanographers
are observing the ocean, each day taking in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
from a fish's eye view. |
![P-3 Doppler radar image of Katrina](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506105147im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/ifex_a.jpg) |
NOAA's
Hurricane Researchers Log Many Flight Hours & Accomplishments
in the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season
As the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season continues
to march on with the birth of Wilma in the Caribbean, NOAA's cadre
of hurricane researchers at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological
Laboratory (AOML) are wrapping up an extremely busy and accomplished
research field season. |
![Mesocosms in Norway](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506105147im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/gcc_a.jpg) |
Impacts
of Anthropogenic CO2 on Ocean Chemistry and Biology
Last April, a NOAA/NSF/USGS-sponsored workshop at the USGS
Center for Coastal Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida revealed potential
future problems for marine ecosystems from ocean acidification |
![An Asian fisherman tries his luck from a pier along Chicago's Lake Michigan shore.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506105147im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/fishschool_a.jpg) |
Fish School Reaches New Audiences about PCB, Mercury Health Concerns
Fish provide key nutrients for growing young minds and healthy bodies of
all ages, but some are contaminated with pollutants that can have serious
health effects, particularly on babies and children. |
![Woodstock High winiing student team holds Okeanos Explorer banner in fron of former Navy ship Capable](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506105147im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/okeanos_a.jpg) |
High school students who named
NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer are congratulated from sea by explorer
Robert Ballard
When a team of students at Woodstock High School in Illinois
learned they had won a nationwide contest to name NOAA's new ship for
ocean exploration, they were delighted but surprised. |
![Shaded blue area shows potential Category 2 hurricane storm surge reaching half the height of the entrance to the Holland Tunnel](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506105147im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/nycplanning_a.jpg) |
Climate Variability and Change
and New York City Planning for the Future
The tri-state New York City (NYC) metropolitan area, with
20 million people living, working and commuting in its 31 counties, is
home to the largest public transportation system in the United States. |
![Snowy egrets wade near the shore of the reserve.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506105147im_/http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/tamarisk_a.jpg) |
Invasion and Impacts of Tamarisk
in Tijuana Estuary Salt Marshes, and Ecosystem Recovery After Its Removal
A non-native tree called tamarisk has invaded salt marshes
at the NOAA Tijuana River National
Estuarine Research Reserve, a 2,500-acre preserve adjacent to the U.S.-Mexico
border in southern San Diego County. |
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