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| | Coral Reef Mapping | | | | The first global map of tropical shallow water has been created through joint effort of NASA and NOAA. Nearly 44,000 SeaWiFS (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor) scenes collected over five years were processed to 1 sq.km cells by NASA Space Flight Center using algorithms developed by NOAA for water shallower than 20-30 meters. NOAA is working with the UNEP World Consdervation Monitoring Centre to use this data set to improve the database of coral reef locations used in ReefBase.
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 | | | | | Hypoxia Crisis in the Gulf of Mexico
by The World Resources Institute ( http://www.wri.org/ ) 11 March 2003 | |
| | WASHINGTON, DC and MINNEAPOLIS, MN, March 6, 2003. The World Resources Institute (WRI) today released a new report, 'Awakening the Dead Zone: An Investment for Agriculture, Water Quality, and Climate Change,' evaluating several policy options for addressing the hypoxia, or oxygen depletion, crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. | |
Read more at http://newsroom.wri.org/ ... aseID=239.
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