My second week at UC Davis, and I’ve already met Jane Lubchenco. Last night the NOAA administrator gave a public lecture to a packed auditorium…
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When Far-Sighted Vision Meets Near-Sighted Politics or Zombie Worms For Congress!
What’s the difference between a collection of Osedax “Zombie worms” and the 112th United States Congress? One is a population of spineless, sedentary, opportunistic life…
View More When Far-Sighted Vision Meets Near-Sighted Politics or Zombie Worms For Congress!The 2011 Hurricane Season in 4.5 minutes
From NOAA Visualizations on YouTube: The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on Nov. 30 and produced a total of 19 tropical storms of which…
View More The 2011 Hurricane Season in 4.5 minutesExploration, thy name is Atlantis
If everything goes smoothly, this morning at around 11 o’clock, four brave souls strapped to 800,000 gallons of liquid oxygen, hydrogen and hydrazine will ride a…
View More Exploration, thy name is AtlantisDeepwater Horizon: Resources and Restoration
I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with NOAA. If you’ve been to their homepage lately, you’ll notice that the key Deepwater Horizon links have…
View More Deepwater Horizon: Resources and RestorationStudying dolphins as sentinels of oceans and human health
This week a really great project is unfolding in the waters of the Indian River Lagoon, Florida. It’s the annual Health and Environmental Risk Assessment…
View More Studying dolphins as sentinels of oceans and human healthWE R TAKIN OVAR UR CITY AN PRES
DSN’s vey on Miriam G. is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle. Head over to read about her recent work on the Pacific Garbage Patch…
View More WE R TAKIN OVAR UR CITY AN PRESScientists Observe Damage to Deep-sea Corals Pt. 2
KZ already posted this yesterday but you should venture over to the NOAA website and view both the high resolution version of the image above and…
View More Scientists Observe Damage to Deep-sea Corals Pt. 2Scientists Observe Damage to Deep-Sea Corals
Fresh out of the NOAA news office: […] Operating from the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown and using a variety of tools including the National…
View More Scientists Observe Damage to Deep-Sea CoralsNOAA maps October 25th Indonesian tsunami
The Indonesia tsunami event was generated by a Mw 7.7 earthquake (3.484°S, 100.114°E ), at 14:42:22 UTC, 240 km (150 miles) W of Bengkulu, Sumatra,…
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