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Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-713-2458

NOAA Strategic Goal: Climate Variability and Change

Air Resources Laboratory
Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network
VT-1 (Chittenden County)

One of NOAA’s Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network (AIRMoN) sites is located in Chittenden County, VT. 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.

NOAA Strategic Goal: Weather and Air Quality

Earth System Research Laboratory
Operational Systems for Weather Forecasting
VT-1 (South Burlington)

Computer systems developed by the NOAA Research Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) are in operation at all NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) field offices, one of which is located in South Burlington, Vermont. 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.

General website: http://onestop.noaa3.awips.noaa.gov/onestop/what_is_awips.htm
General website: http://www-md.fsl.noaa.gov/eft/

NOAA Strategic Goal: Ecosystems

NOAA's National Sea Grant College Program
Vermont Sea Grant Program
VT 1, serves all (Burlington)

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 30 programs in all U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states and Puerto Rico. The Lake Champlain Sea Grant Project, based at the University of Vermont, is the newest member of the national Sea Grant network. The overarching goal for 2003-2006 is to transform the current project into a Coherent Area Program, the first watershed-defined, and resource-based program in the national network. A member of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network, Lake Champlain Sea Grant supports the improved understanding, use and management of Lake Champlain and Lake George, the Basin’s inland waters and the Great Lakes in general. Lake Champlain Sea Grant focuses the program’s outreach and research priorities on coastal communities and economies, coastal ecosystem health and public safety, and education and human resources development. Current research supports aquatic resources management (forage fish dynamics, cormorant predation), control of invasive aquatic species, urban non-point source pollution reduction and coastal water quality protection. Administered by the University of Vermont, the Lake Champlain project collaborates with Plattsburgh State University in New York. For more information see http://www.uvm.edu/~seagrant.

General website: www.seagrant.noaa.gov

Office of Ocean Exploration
Exploration of Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Coral
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NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration (OE), headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, supports activities that search and investigate the oceans for the purpose of discovery. OE missions fit into four areas: (1) mapping the physical, biological, chemical and archeological aspects of the ocean; (2) understanding ocean dynamics at new levels to describe the complex interactions of the living ocean; (3) developing new sensors and systems for ocean exploration, and; (4) reaching out to the public to communicate the benefits to current of future generations of unlocking the secrets of the ocean. In 2005, OE provided funding to the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.

General website: www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov

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