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NOAA Strategic Goal: Weather and Air Quality

Computer systems developed by the NOAA Research Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) are in operation at all NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) field offices, two of which are located in Ohio. ESRL has been the prime developer of the data ingest and display components of the NWS weather display and text generation system known as AWIPS (Advanced Weather Information Processing System). This system integrates meteorological, hydrological, satellite, and radar data. ESRL also developed the Interactive Forecast Preparation System Graphical Forecast Editor, a system that allows forecasters to display and manipulate forecast depictions of sensible weather (temperature, wind, precipitation, etc.), and use these to generate text and graphical forecasts for the public and other customers. NWS field offices are using this system to produce gridded forecast products, which allows forecasters to convey more information to the customers than they did in the past.

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. Ohio Sea Grant is based at the Ohio State University with participation by colleges, universities, and secondary schools from all over the state. Ohio Sea Grant has proven that it is possible to have both environmental improvement and economic development. Sea Grant conducts problem-solving research on critical, real-world issues affecting Lake Erie and Ohio including: fishery and ecosystem management, artificial reefs, aquaculture, biotechnology, harmful algal blooms, aquatic nuisance species, coastal development, coastal hazards, contaminant cleanup, contaminant transfer and human health, land use/watershed management, brownfield redevelopment, coastal economic impact, underwater welding and large lakes limnology. This research supports Ohio Sea Grant's 2000-2005 strategic plan and the "Lake Erie Protection and Restoration Plan" produced by the Lake Erie Commission. Sea Grant has supported research projects at 12 different colleges and universities in Ohio, several out-of-state schools, and state agencies. The Stone Laboratory, part of Ohio Sea Grant, is located on the 6.5-acre Gibraltar Island at Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie, and is the oldest freshwater biological field station in the country. For more information see http://www.sg.ohio-state.edu.

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 North Atlantic and Great Lakes (NAGL), one of the six NURP regional centers, is housed at the University of Connecticut. The NALG Center supports undersea research off the U.S.’s northeastern coast (i.e., Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank and the Southern New England Coast including Long Island Sound) and in the Laurentian Great Lakes. The center’s research focuses on ecosystem response to human induced stress such as fishing and pollution and the role of habitat in sustaining fisheries and biological diversity. Underwater diving technologies available through NAGL include occupied submersibles, remotely operated vehicles (ROV's), and Nitrox scuba. For more information see http://www.nurp.noaa.gov/natlan.html.

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Updated June 8, 2006