• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2015-03-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Cetacean Density and Distribution Mapping Working Group identified Biologically Important Areas (BIAs) for 24 cetacean species, stocks, or populations in seven regions (US East Coast, Gulf of...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-02-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The magnitude 8.6 (Mw) earthquake occurred south of the Andreanof Islands, in the Aleutian Islands. It generated an 8-meter tsunami that did great damage on Adak Island, especially to the fuel and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1994-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Over the last several million years the Hawaiian Islands have been built of successive lava flows. They are the most recent additions in a long line of volcanoes that extends up the intersection...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1962-08-28T00:00:00.000+00:00

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has the statutory mandate to collect hydrographic data in support of nautical chart compilation for safe navigation and to provide...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Gravity for the Re-definition of the American Vertical Datum (GRAV-D) is a project initiated by NOAA's National Geodetic Survey to collect and monitor gravity data suitable for the re-definition...

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