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NOAA ANNOUNCES NEW COOPERATIVE INSTITUTE SERVING NORTHERN
GULF OF MEXICO
Climate And Coastal Hazards Among Research Themes
NOAA, along with a consortium of universities and institutions,
announced the creation of a new cooperative institute. The new
Northern Gulf Institute will collaborate with NOAA scientists
to study regional issues associated with coastal hazards, climate
change, water quality, ecosystem management, coastal wetlands
and pollution. "This institute begins a new paradigm of
long-term collaboration to develop and sustain research, education
and outreach capabilities focusing on the needs in the Northern
Gulf of Mexico region," said Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher,
Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.), undersecretary of commerce for oceans
and atmosphere and NOAA administrator.
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BUILDS ITS LARGEST BARRIER ISLAND PROJECT —
Despite delays caused by Hurricane Katrina, NOAA is on schedule
to complete the first phase of an 800-acre barrier island project
in Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish. In one of the largest island
restoration projects ever done by NOAA, workers are dredging
and performing major earth-moving activities on Chaland Island,
to create beach and marsh habitat that will help protect Louisiana's
coastal communities and infrastructure from the devastating
effects of wind, waves and flooding. |
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CORAL REEF TASK FORCE ADDRESSES CARIBBEAN CORAL REEF MANAGEMENT
CHALLENGES, LAUNCHES PLANNING FOR 2008 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF
THE REEF — The U.S. Coral Reef Task Force
voted to begin the planning process for an International Year
of the Reef in 2008 at its business meeting in St. Thomas. The
Task Force called on researchers and coral reef managers to
use the year to increase global awareness of the economic, ecological
and cultural value of coral reefs and to improve commitments
to protect and sustain these threatened and valuable ecosystems. |
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U.S.,
24 OTHER COUNTRIES, AND EUROPEAN COMMISSION PROTEST ICELAND'S
RETURN TO WHALING — The United States, 24
other countries and the European Commission have delivered a
protest to Iceland's government urging it to reconsider its
decision to start commercial whaling and halt its ongoing whaling
operations. "The fact that 25 countries and the European
Commission created such a strongly worded protest demonstrates
the breadth of opposition to Icelandic commercial whaling,"
said Bill Hogarth, U.S. Commissioner to the IWC and director
of the NOAA Fisheries Service. |
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