FROM THERE TO HERE

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• FROM THERE TO HERE
• AND
• THE FUTURE
• Robert M. White
• NOAA Leadership Seminar
• August 25, 2004

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A Proud History of Service and Science

• Coastal Survey
• 1870 Weather Bureau
• 1871 Fisheries Commission
• (Bureau Commercial Fisheries)
• 1965 ESSA, Environmental Science Service
• Administration
• 1970 NOAA

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Half Century of U.S.Environmental Progress

• 1960 JFK elected President
• 1962 Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
• 1968 Stratton Commission on Oceans Our
  Nation and the Sea
• 1968 National Environmental Policy Act

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Half Century of U.S. Environmental Progress II

• 1970 Environment Institutionalized by Nixon
  (NEPA, NOAA, EPA)
• 2003 Pew Ocean Commission
• 2004 Watkins Ocean Commission

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The Making of NOAA

• Stratton Commission
• ESSA, Department of Commerce
• Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Department of
  Interior
• Ocean Data Center, U.S. Navy
• Great Lakes Survey, Corp of Engineers
• Sea Grant Program, National Science Foundation

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The Making of NOAA II

• Marine Minerals Technology Center, Department of
  Interior
• National Data Buoy Project, U.S. Coast Guard
• Recommendations not included
• Independent Agency
• Coast Guard

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An Environmentally Integrated
AgencyScience, Service and Stewardship

• National Missions
• Weather and Climate Observations and Predictions
• Hydrological measurements and predictions
• Nautical charts
• Aeronautical charts
• Marine advisory services

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An Environmentally Integrated Agency II

• Fisheries management
• Protection of marine resources
• Environmental science and technology
• Others

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Unique Facilities

• Fleet of ships
• Fleet of aircraft
• Computer facilities
• Earth Orbiting Satellites
• National radar network
• National hazard warning radio network

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Policy and PoliticsLegislative Authority

• 1970 Reorganization Plan 4
• 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act
• 1972 Coastal Zone Management Act
• 1972 Marine Protection Research
  Sanctuaries Act
• 1976 Coastal Energy Impact Act
• 1978 Ocean Pollution Act
• 1978 National Climate Program Act

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Technological Underpinnings of Service

• Digital electronic computer
• Mathematical Modeling
• Remote Sensing technology-Radar
• Severe storms
• Charting
• Earth Orbiting Satellites
• Global Communications
• The Internet

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NOAA Services Fundamental Rationale

• Weather
• Agricultural, Aviation, Weather Hazards
• Climate
• Energy, Agriculture, Health
• Navigation Charts
• Nautical, Aeronautical
• Hydrology
• Observations, Drought, Floods
• Ocean Prediction
• Sea level, Tides, Currents

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NOAA Stewardship Preserving Our
Environmental Future

• Ocean sanctuaries and restricted areas
• Fisheries management
• Air and ocean pollution
• Coastal Zone management

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NOAAs Global ReachLead Agency

• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
• UNESCO (IOC)
• International Whaling Commission (IWC)
• United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
• Fisheries Agreements

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International Programs

• World Weatherwatch WMO
• 1960s Global Atmospheric Research Program WMO
• 1965 International Hydrological Decade UNESCO
• 1970s International Decade Ocean Exploration
  UNESCO
• 1970 Integrated Ocean Station System IOC
  UNESCO
• 1972 Earthwatch-Observing the Earth UN/UNEP
• 1989 International Decade for Natural Hazard
  reduction UN

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NOAAs Future

• Global Earth Observation System
• Ocean and Coastal Stewardship
• Ecosystem Fisheries Management
• Climate Observations Prediction Impact
• Hazardous Weather Environmental Prediction
• Ocean Observation and Prediction
• Environmentally Sustainable World

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Proposed New Organic ActsJuly 1-15, 2004

• HR4546 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
  Administration Act Vern Ehlers (R-MI)
• HR4607 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
  Organic Act of 2004 Bush Administration
• S2647 National Ocean Policy and Leadership Act
  Ernest Hollings (D, SC), Ted Stevens (R-AK) et al