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Dec
16, 2002
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an online newsletter for and by NOAA employees
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NOAA Education on Web! 
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 At a ground-breaking for a weather radar in Brandon, U.S. Rep. Charles "Chip" Pickering thanked Vice Admiral (Ret.) Lautenbacher for NOAA’s efforts to save lives and property through better weather forecasting. Congressman Pickering was instrumental in securing funding for the weather radar. Don’t miss his lapel pin! In Moss Point, Vice Admiral (Ret.) Lautenbacher spoke at the Keel Laying Ceremony of the FSV OSCAR DYSON, designed as a versatile, state-of-the-art vessel that will simultaneously and cost-effectively conduct fisheries and environmental/oceanographic research.
With projects large and small, NOAA's Restoration Center oversees a wide range of habitat restoration activities that are vital to healthy coasts, living marine resources and the U.S. economy. Under NOAA Fisheries, the Restoration Center develops partnerships and leverages seed money, technology and technical expertise to: • Restore degraded habitat • Advance the science of habitat restoration • Implement quality restoration of degraded coastal and estuarine habitats. • Transfer restoration technology to the private sector, the public and other government agencies • Foster habitat stewardship and a conservation ethic • Monitor restoration successes to ensure long-term health. This year the $10 million invested by NOAA in community-based restoration was leveraged 3-5 times at the local level.
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NOAA Reaches Milestone in Study of Coral Reefs Scientists from NOAA,
the Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
have successfully reached a milestone in safeguarding endangered coral
reefs. In conducting the first-ever comprehensive mapping of coral reefs
in the U.S. Caribbean, scientists from NOAA’s National Ocean Service
applied a newly established scientific classification method to learn
where the reefs are, what lives on them and what their relationship may
be to neighboring habitats and human activities -- something that has
never been done before in this region. |
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Because of growing concern about marine mammals washing ashore in U.S. waters, NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Protected Resources’ Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program was created in the late 1980s. It has since collaborated with scientists worldwide to investigate, monitor, assess and respond to marine mammal health issues.
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 Vice Admiral (Ret.) Lautenbacher welcomed Julia Hsian-wen and Yu-Yi Huang during their recent internship at NOAA Fisheries. Here for three months, they learned more about international fishery organizations, highly migratory species management and fishery management in the U.S. They also developed a seminar for NOAA staff on their work at the Taiwan Fisheries Administration, NOAA Fisheries counterpart in Taipei. |
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