Common wisdom holds that a glimpse of the oceanic whitetip shark is a rare one.
Because this animal is an endangered marine mammal, the fisheries service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is charged with designing a recovery plan.
The large, lacy shell is edged with blush pink and its flavour is a revelation: sweet, oceanic, outrageously fresh, leaving in its wake a memory of the sea with subtle notes of hazelnut.
Another Hawaiian venture, Hawaii Oceanic Technologies, has a plan to build humungous pens to grow ahi tuna.
These garbage patches are vortices that form where two ocean currents meet, in effect a giant oceanic toilet that never flushes.
"As of a week ago, the ocean surface temperature was a few degrees higher than usual, " Liu said, referring to data collected by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency satellite.
The Harvard physicist Russell Seitz wants to create what amounts to a giant oceanic bubble bath: bubbles trap air, which brightens them enough to reflect sunlight away from the surface of the earth.
Chunzai Wang of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has performed a very interesting data-based analysis of Atlantic hurricane tracks showing that increasing the area of warm water results in a significant lowering of the likelihood that a storm will strike the U.S., something that should happen with continued oceanic warming.
For instance, the sail that forms part of Geostorms, a sun-watching probe proposed by America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, would be a mere 67 metres (220 feet) across.
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They are made of continental rather than oceanic rock, and seem to be a small part of the jigsaw puzzle of continental drift rather than genuine oceanic islands.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration keeps a 30-year running average, which predicts 54 people should die by lightning strikes this year.
However, Christopher Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration applied a little common sense to the data by factoring out inflation, the rise in individual wealth over the period and, crucially, the increasing tendency of people to live by the seaside.
Meanwhile at a public meeting Saturday in Key West, representatives from the Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and BP offered a similar message: There is no imminent threat to the Florida Keys, although fears remained that the slick would eventually hit the state.
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As we passed the Museum of African and Oceanic Art, Louboutin gave me a nudge.
"With no tethers, you can take advantage of all three dimensions, " says Bill Spencer, a founder of Hawaii Oceanic Technologies.
The 1956 drought brought serious economic repercussions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration notes in a report on historic weather conditions.
The U.S. Navy has announced that the first of a new class of oceanic research ships will be named the Neil Armstrong.
Even though the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently issued a report concluding that the evidence for global warming is unequivocal, more Americans are convinced than at any time since 1997 that scientists have exaggerated the seriousness of global warming.
Portland State funded the study along with Oregon Sea Grant, a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"Unfortunately, you need a storm to hit and cause a considerable amount of destruction for it to be retired, " said Chris Vaccaro, a spokesman with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Until very recently the deep ocean remained invisible to scientists, but now the science of our seas is undergoing a revolution, thanks to a vast array of floating oceanic robots known as Argo.
Mr. Bohne is a regional director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration living in Savannah, Ga.
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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a tsunami watch for Indonesia, India, Thailand and Malaysia, but canceled it soon after.
In more recent years, however, a new set of ocean monitors has documented a decrease in the rate of oceanic heating for the same time period that satellite-based monitoring systems have shown an expanding imbalance between incoming and outgoing energy flows.
Fishing crews are pushing for the limits to be relaxed but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) insists on a precautionary approach.
"Once the bugs got worked out, and most have been, we've been very happy with this, " said Craig Troxclair, a controller at the FAA's oceanic traffic room near Oakland, Calif.
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He wants to live forever, have the option to escape to outer space or an oceanic city-state, and play chess against a robot that can discuss Tolkien, because these were the fantasies that filled his childhood imagination.
According to a study announced Aug. 9 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the levels of certain vehicle-related pollutants in Los Angeles have dropped by 98% since the 1960s.
Although they are sometimes produced by landslides on the seafloor, significant tsunamis are typically created by subduction earthquakes, when one massive oceanic plate suddenly lurches deeper beneath another plate, shoving up a huge section of the seafloor.
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Coastal counties generate more than half of the U.S. gross domestic product, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and their 66 million jobs represent about a quarter of the national total.
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