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We
all need tools. Tools for working at the
office, tools for working in our homes and yards, even tools for dining
and recreation.
Various types of tools are used by scientists also in helping them do
their jobs. Oceanographers,
meteorologists, marine biologists, sea-surveyors, climate modelers,
and fisheries scientists all require specialized tools and equipment
to help them do their jobs. These tools include, but are not limited
to, microscopes, computers, measuring instruments, and specialized vehicles
for observing and analyzing our environment. For NOAA, those vehicles
can include survey and research ships, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft
outfitted with specially designed sensors, submersibles that carry passengers
and scientific gear through the water column to the bottom of the sea,
robotic vehicles, satellites that view our planet with special cameras
and remote sensing instruments, and even specially equipped automobiles
for chasing tornadoes.
This section of NOAA History is devoted to stories concerned with the
“tools” of the trade, the special instruments and vehicles
that allow NOAA scientists and engineers to better monitor the environment,
warn our citizens of impending danger, and help educate us all to the
wonders of our world.
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Ships
NOAA has a rich maritime heritage encompassing vessels
that have sailed into all oceans of the world collecting data
and specimens, mapping seafloor and water column, and observing
the interactions between ocean and atmosphere.
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Surveying
and Mapping
Surveying and mapping in the Coast and Geodetic Survey
encompassed seafloor, shoreline, mountain-tops and plains and
more...
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Weather
Prediction & Detection
For
centuries weather observing tools consisted of the human eye and
the various human senses. Only within the last six centuries has
the rudimentary technology of weather observation been developed.
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Fisheries
Research
Join
the National Marine Fisheries Service as it studies the fish and
mammals of our seas, learns their secrets, and the best means
to protect the our living marine resources….
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