NOAA News ReleasesThe latest news releases from NOAA - the National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNOAA Initiates $1.4 Million Three-Year Project to Study Valuable Deep Hawaiian Coral Ecosystems- October 24, 2007 NOAA has awarded four Honolulu based organizations $500,000 for the first year of a three-year $1.4 million project to improve the understanding of deep water coral reef ecosystems in the Hawaiian Islands.http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/20071024_deepcoral.html NOAA Begins Funding Project to Develop Chesapeake, Delaware Bays Hypoxia Forecasting Models- October 23, 2007 NOAA has awarded $330,000 to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, in a five-year $1.8 million NOAA project to help resource managers analyze and predict how hypoxia, water quality, and fishery production respond to nutrient loading and climatic factors in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware inland bays.http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/20071023_hypoxia.html NOAA Initiates Three-Year $781,000 Project to Unravel Gulf Deadzone Mysteries- October 19, 2007 NOAA has awarded first-year funding of $284,000 to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) as part of a three-year $781,000 project to develop a better understanding of how nutrient pollution from the Mississippi River affects the large area of low oxygen water called the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The project will also look at how the dead zone affects commercially and recreationally important fish and shellfish.http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/20071019_gulfdeadzone.html |