NOAA WOCE Buoy Deployed in the Arctic Ocean

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Dr. Jane Lubchenco (NOAA Administrator) and I participated in the deployment of a NOAA World ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) buoy from a Coast Guard C-130 Wednesday during an Arctic Domain Awareness flight. This is the first buoy of this kind deployed north of the Bering Sea. Below is a video of the buoy's actual deployment north of Point Barrow which is the dividing point between the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. You can read more about its significance here.

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