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Feature Archive
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Features: June 2009
A Creek and a Causeway Serve a Higher Cause
A creek, a causeway, and a salt marsh on Sapelo Island, Georgia – the state’s fourth-largest barrier island and one of its most pristine – are revealing much to scientists, policy makers, and regulatory authorities about salt-marsh ecology.
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary: Just Beyond the Golden Gate, NOAA Protects a Unique Portion of the Pacific
Many of metropolitan San Francisco’s eight million people are not aware that NOAA’s Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary surrounds a unique island chain and wildly beautiful mainland shores just beyond the Golden Gate.
From Theodolites to Satellites, Lew Lapine has been a Global Positioning Pioneer
For 12 years now, Louis Lapine, PhD, has been chief of the South Carolina Geodetic Survey (SCGS). This agency establishes horizontal and vertical geodetic control points throughout the state to allow land and land-related items to be referenced to the national coordinate system maintained by NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey.
Preparing for Oil Spills in the Future Arctic
Within the next two decades, scientists estimate that the Arctic Ocean will be free of multiyear ice in the summer. While many people around the world are thinking about the economic opportunities that may open up as the ice thaws, experts from the NOS Office of Response and Restoration are now working out strategies to deal with the increased likelihood of oil spills in this remote region.
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