Podcasts: November 2008

What does the National Ocean Service have to do with your Thanksgiving dinner? We bring you the answer in this special holiday edition of Making Waves. (4:30 minutes)

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• National Geodetic Survey
• Office of Coast Survey
• Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services

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This week, the head of the NOS traveled to Florida for the first-ever Coastal Cities Summit hosted by the International Ocean Institute. We also take a look at the devastating harmful algal bloom in New England. Finally, we talk about the latest case to come through the lab in the NOS Marine Forensics Program—and we take a closer look at what this program is all about. (8:35 minutes)

Links from current episode:

• NOS Participates in First Coastal Cities Summit
  • NOS Assistant Administrator John H. Dunnigan
  • International Ocean Institute
• New England Red Tide Causes Fisheries Disaster
  • NOAA press release: NOAA Announces Up to $5 Million for Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire for Red Tide Disaster
  • NOAA press release: Commerce Secretary Determines Red Tide Disaster in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire
  • More NOS harmful algal bloom information
• NOS Forensic Experts Save Time, Money in Latest Case
  • NOS Marine Forensics Program
  • NCCOS Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research (CEHBR)
  • NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement

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This week, we bring you news about a recent expedition to map an unknown sea floor in the Arctic. Then we travel to California, where staff of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary work to prevent ships from striking blue whales in the Santa Barbara Channel. Finally, we head down to Texas to talk about a new digital map of underwater vegetation in the Coastal Bend region near Corpus Christi. (6:32 minutes)

Links from current episode:

• Mapping the Mysterious Arctic Sea Floor
  • Joint Hydrographic Center (University of New Hampshire)
  • Office of Coast Survey
  • U.S. Coast Guard Ice Breaker Healy
• Sanctuary Staff Work to Keep Whales, Ships Apart
  • Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS)
  • CINMS: Current Whale Sightings
  • Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
• New Underwater Map of Shallow Coastal Waters
  • Benthic Habitat Data
  • NOAA Coastal Services Center
  • Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

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This week, we talk about NOAA's role in a new public-private partnership called the EcoZone® Green Schools Initiative. Then we look at the busiest year on record for the NOS Office of Response and Restoration, the NOAA office that responds to oil and chemical spills around the nation. Finally, we talk about a National Geodetic Survey effort to revolutionize the measurement of height by measuring gravity around the country. We wrap up the episode with a closer look at how gravity and height are related. (7:12 minutes)

Links from current episode:

• NOS Joins EcoZone® Green Schools Initiative
  • EcoZone Green Schools Initiative
• Busy Year for Oil Spill Response
  • Office of Response & Restoration
  • IncidentNews.gov
• Measuring Gravity to Protect Lives, Property
  • GRAV-D Project Site
  • National Geodetic Survey

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