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NOAA Strategic Goal: Climate Variability and Change

One of NOAA’s Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network (AIRMoN) sites is located in Sussex County, DE. AIRMoN provides a research-based foundation for the routine operations of the nation’s deposition monitoring networks. Major ion data (sulfate, nitrate, pH, ammonium, sodium, chloride, and soil cations) are routinely in demand by scientists addressing process oriented studies concerned with the study of atmospheric fate and transport of various chemicals as well as numerous ecosystem issues. Other process studies of more limited duration address issues related to the maintenance of air quality, and the interaction of air pollution with the terrestrial, aquatic, and biospheric environments. Both monitoring and shorter term projects are relevant to climate, which is one driver of long-term variability and change in environmental quality. For more information and data access, please see http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/AIRMoN.

To carry out NOAA’s mission to provide climate forecasts and products, the Climate Program Office supports research projects across the nation conducted by investigators outside the federal government, within the federal government, and in NOAA Cooperative Institutes. This research is accomplished through the strong support of the academic and private sectors, as well as NOAA and other federal laboratories. The research contributes to improved predictions and assessments of the effects of climate variability over a range of time scales from season to season, year to year, and over the course of a decade and beyond. Grants Recipients: University of Delaware

NOAA Strategic Goal: Ecosystems

NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program is a federal-university partnership that integrates research, education, and outreach (extension and communications). Sea Grant forms a network of 32 programs in all U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states, Puerto Rico and Guam. Delaware Sea Grant is a statewide network of research, education, and extension services focused on advancing the wise use, conservation, and management of marine and coastal resources. Priority research areas include coastal ocean studies, environmental technology, marine biotechnology, coastal engineering, and fisheries. Projects range from the impacts of groundwater seeps on water quality, to the cause of fish kills, to regional models used to predict longshore sediment transport. The Program hosts the award-winning Coast Day open house at the University of Delaware’s seaside Lewes campus and also awards the Teacher of the Year award in cooperation with the Governor of Delaware. The Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service and the Marine Public Education Office translate complex scientific information to the public and have expertise in education, watershed management, coastal ecosystems health and processes, seafood technology, marine recreation, tourism, aquaculture, and marine transportation. For more information see http://www.ocean.udel.edu/seagrant.

NOAA's Undersea Research Program (NURP) is a unique national service that provides undersea scientists with tools and expertise that they need to work in the undersea environment, from the shoreline to the deep sea. Each year, the program supports 200 or more undersea research projects related to NOAA's mission as steward of oceanic resources and environments, including research to support NOAA's management responsibilities in fisheries (stock assessment validation, understanding essential fish habitat), corals, and other coastal resources. NURP is comprised of a network of six regional centers and a national technology institute. NOAA's Undersea Research Center for the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB), one of the six NURP regional centers, supports undersea research along the mid-Atlantic states, from south of Long Island to Virginia, including Chesapeake Bay. The MAB Center is administered by Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Stony Brook University in New York. The MAB Center provides advanced undersea research platforms such as a REMUS Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and LEO-15, the Long-term Ecosystem Observatory located at 15 meter depth offshore of New Jersey. LEO-15 is able to collect data on various ocean parameters over long time periods, which may be used to distinguish between changes in the marine environment induced by natural versus anthropogenic events. LEO-15 serves as the core element of a shelf-wide ocean observation network that will increase understanding of episodic events such as storms, upwelling and hypoxia, that are poorly studied by conventional methods. For more information see http://www.nurp.noaa.gov/midatlan.html.

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Updated June 8, 2006