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6/11/2007
A scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) was an author on a paper published in the journal Science recently that presents evidence that recent climate change has weakened one of the Earth's natural carbon 'sinks'; the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
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4/30/2007
From April to June 2007, a NOAA research team---including four Alaska Natives with extensive local and traditional knowledge of seals and sea ice--equipped seals with data-recorders to study the animals' diving behavior and movements.
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4/19/2007
The NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory will add a new location in Tiksi, Russia, joining five existing laboratories placed internationally along the Arctic rim. Tiksi will be an important component of the NOAA Arctic Atmospheric Observatory Program, closing a significant gap in vital Arctic atmospheric research.
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4/19/2007
The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing to list the Cook Inlet beluga whale population as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The number of beluga whales in Cook Inlet waters near Anchorage has dwindled to an estimated 302 animals and is at risk of going extinct within 100 years.
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4/16/2007
NOAA and NASA have announced a plan to restore a key climate sensor—designed to give climate researchers a more precise depiction of the structure of the Earth's ozone layer—to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project.
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4/4/2007
A North Pole webcam deployed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory has kept an eye on events there since April 2002, tracking snow cover, weather conditions and the annual deployment of the North Pole Environmental Observatory.
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3/30/2007
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses the Atmospheric Research Observatory (ARO) at the National Science Foundation’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to support a long-term research program carried out by NOAA’s Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory. The South Pole carbon-dioxide record, which is part of that effort, dates back to the 1957 International Geophysical Year, precursor to IPY.
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3/30/2007
From August 2006 to March 2007, NOAA-funded scientists from the University of Washington working with the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources equipped narwhals with satellite-linked instruments to track whale movements, diving behavior, and ocean temperature structure in Baffin Bay. Narwhals have never previously been observed or studied in their winter habitat in central Baffin Bay.
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3/15/2007
For the first time, mushers in Alaska’s 1,150-mile Iditarod this month raced though four newly designated StormReady communities, a distinction given by the National Weather Service to communities that have completed rigorous warning and evacuation criteria.
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