The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) office would like to welcome Dr. Margaret Leinen, Executive Director of Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, to her new role as Chair of the Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP). Read more
The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) coordinated a breakout session at the National Council for Science and Environment (NCSE) 11th National Conference on January 20th, 2011. The conference theme was Our Changing Oceans and the NOPP session focused on Attaining an Operational Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (BON): Transforming Recommendations to Action. The recommendations generated from the breakout session focused on the following steps needed to implement a national marine BON: Read more
The baleen whale pictured was observed near West Greenland in 2008. Read more
