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THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS The United States currently invests about $1 billion a year in collecting data on the oceans for use in weather and climate forecasting and providing direct information to a variety of users of the oceans and Great Lakes. As large of an investment as this is, it only scratches the surface of what the nation needs to know about the ocean and Great Lakes for agriculture, energy production, recreation, transportation and a host of other uses.

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PARASITE IN CATS KILLING SEA OTTERS Offering a partial explanation to a mysterious decline in the federally protected southern sea otter population, scientists funded by the NOAA National Sea Grant College Program have established a strong body of circumstantial evidence linking cats to a lethal otter disease.

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NOAA’s SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER NOAA's Southeast Fisheries Science Center conducts marine and coastal research, primarily in the areas of biology, ecology, fishing gear use and impacts and socioeconomics. SEFSC designs, implements and manages a comprehensive program of basic and applied research for protecting, using and conserving living marine resources in territorial waters of the southeastern United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.

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NOAA AND UNITED STATES POWER SQUADRONS PREPARE TO CELEBRATE 40-YEAR PARTNERSHIP NOAA and the United States Power Squadrons are set to celebrate the 40-year anniversary of one of the most successful partnerships that has existed between a federal agency and a private organization. The celebration will recognize the accomplishments achieved through a program called "Cooperative Charting." Full Story Inside

NOAA’s NEW U.S. CLIMATE ATLAS A new CD-ROM of the Climate Atlas of the United States is now available from NOAA. The CD-ROM atlas consists of more than 2,000 color maps that depict normal or mean temperature, precipitation, snow and other parameters for all areas of the United States for the period 1961-1990. Full Story Inside

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