Tropical Storm Florence strengthened a bit Saturday over the open Atlantic Ocean, its center about 515 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands as it headed toward the Leeward Islands.
Among other changes, the renovation will convert a conference room with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the ocean into fitness center, upgrade the resort's Italian and steak-and-seafood restaurants with Hawaiian fare, and open a new surf-themed store in the lobby.
In the center of the ocean, wind-driven currents bring fresh water to the surface, so stirring the ocean could transform it into a well-organized storage depot.
Hawaii is in a unique geographical spot, the center of the Pacific Ocean, to witness the impact of the Japan tsunami.
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Stanley Goosby, a chief scientist with the Pacific Disaster Center in Hawaii, said Indian Ocean countries have made significant progress in tsunami preparedness.
Frank Lepore of the National Hurricane Center said scientists were looking at warmer ocean temperatures as a possible factor in this year's forecast.
Sanny Jegillos, program coordinator for the UNDP's regional center in Bangkok, rates the Indian Ocean early tsunami warning systems as superior to those of the Pacific in terms of earthquake monitoring and detection.
Since then, bulletins have been issued to 28 Indian Ocean nations by the Japan Meteorological Agency and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
The new organization, to be called the Ocean Energy Safety Institute, would be a government-run center made up of regulators, industry representatives, members of the academic community and the U.S. Coast Guard, according to a person familiar with the discussion.
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One of two Shell ships that drilled last year in the Arctic Ocean, it has a 160-foot derrick rising from its center and no propulsion system of its own.
We took in 360 degrees of unobstructed views - the five boroughs, the bridges and rivers, the ocean, even downtown (a sight denied at the top of Rockefeller Center, blocked by Empire).
They then used that proxy data, which they dubbed the Paleo Index (PI) and compared it to the merged land-ocean surface temperature (MLOST) records developed by the National Climactic Data Center.
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Goudey, the director of the MIT Sea Grant's Offshore Aquaculture Engineering Center, has devised a system by which giant spherical cages of fish would drift underwater in circular ocean currents, or gyres.
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