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New Director of the National Sea Grant College Program
NOAA announced the appointment of Dr. Leon Cammen as Director of NOAA's National
Sea Grant College Program.
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New National Sea Grant Library Web Site
Thanks to Rhode Island Sea Grant and the Sea Grant webmasters' network, the NSGL
unveiled a redesigned site.
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Law Center
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Sea Grant Awards
Sea Grant Programs Receive Awards
13 Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) and one
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Pacific: Sea Grant scientists quoted in LA Times "Altered Oceans"
In August, the Los Angeles Times ran a five-part series on "Altered Oceans," which provided startling evidence about changes occurring in the world's oceans. The article on harmful algal blooms quoted USC Sea Grant-funded scientist David A. Caron and USC colleague Astrid Schnetzer, discussing their work on recent recurrent blooms of diatoms and concurrent outbreaks of domoic acid toxicity. The researchers focused on a "hot zone" of Pseudo-nitzschia, spanning 155 square miles of coastal waters off the mouths of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel rivers. Their study documented the abundances of pseudo-nitzschia in the areas around the Los Angeles harbor breakwater and the associated marine mammal and seabird strandings and deaths during that time. Domoic acid was confirmed in California sea lions, brown pelicans, western grebes, along with high concentrations in planktivorous fish such as anchovies. The researchers are still looking for the link. But one thing is clear, said Caron, a biological oceanographer: "There is a big dose of nutrients."
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Great Lakes: Sea Grant pivotal in leveraging $2.3 million to conserve 600 acres of land and restore miles of streams
Pennsylvania Sea Grant served as a catalyst to protect the state's environmental quality and reduce non-point source pollution by conserving and restoring coastal areas in the Lake Erie watershed. Parcels totaling over 600 acres, including land adjoining a mile of stream corridor and 1.5 miles of lake shorefront, will now remain undeveloped forever. Restoration projects included improving some 300 feet of eroded stream bank and designing plans to restore fish passage in a tributary to Lake Erie. This achievement will help sustain the environment, economy, and quality of life in a Pennsylvania coastal community.
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Northeast: Sea
Grant and partners create "Dive the Seaway Trail" to
attract divers to Great Lakes
Scuba divers represent an economic impact of more than $108 million to New York's Great Lakes region. The fresh waters of the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River and Lake Erie are filled with shipwrecks, "sealife," and rock formations decorated with freshwater sponge. This largely undiscovered underwater destination is now being brought to divers' attention by "Dive the Seaway Trail," a project of New York Sea Grant and Seaway Trail, Inc. The project includes development of a series of dive sites that are marked, buoyed and maintained by community-based stewards along the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River and Lake Erie. The sites, featured on a new website, are accessed via the Seaway Trail, one of America's Byways and a National Recreation Trail. The 518-mile Seaway Trail is a federally-designated America's Byway (Federal Highway Administration designation) and a National Recreation Trail (National Parks Service designation). To learn more about diving the Seaway Trail, visit www.seawaytrail.com
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Mid-Atlantic: Sea Grant report influences introduction of the "Save Our Small Businesses Act"
A report developed from an annual Sea Grant survey administered to Maryland crabmeat processors provided data on the economic impact of the H2B seasonal visa program (a program permitting employers to hire foreign workers to come to the U.S. and perform temporary nonagricultural work) to Senator Barbara Mikulski (via the Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industries Association). Mikulski introduced the "Save Our Small Businesses Act"—which was subsequently signed into law by President George W. Bush. Passage of the Act, which provides a two-year reprieve for the industry while new immigration legislation is developed, saved a minimum of $10 million per year in revenues for crabmeat processors and preserved an estimated 925 domestic jobs in Maryland.
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Southeast: Sea
Grant develops Coastal/Inland Flood Observation
and Warning (CI-FLOW) system
The
South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium and its partners,
the National Sea Grant Office, North Carolina Sea Grant,
and the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL),
are leading a regional project, CI-FLOW (Coastal/Inland
Flood Observation and Warning), to pilot a new flood
detection and monitoring system. Test results are being
used in conjunction with National Weather Service flood
tools to improve flash flood detection and warning capabilities.
CI-FLOW is also being integrated by N.C. State University
researchers into a hurricane storm surge model to provide
more accurate inputs from riverine flooding, and is being
exported to Sea Grant programs in the Gulf of Mexico
for flood applications.
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