2011

NOPP Best Practices and FAQ’s

For information on how NOPP funding announcements are created and FAQ’s about the NOPP review process, please review this new document the NOPP office has created to outline the NOPP announcement and review process: https://nopp.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/NOPP-Funding-Best-Practices_FINAL.pdf. Read more

NOPP Program Update: February 2011

The recommendations from the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) breakout session on Attaining an Operational Biodiversity Observing Network: Transforming Recommendations to Action at the January 19-20, 2011 National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) conference are now available. To view these recommendations and recommendations from additional breakout sessions, please visit http://communities.earthportal.org/ncseoceans2011/. Read more

NCSE Recommendations for a National Marine Biodiversity Observing Network

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

NOPP Photo of the Month – Tagged N. Elephant Seal

The Northern elephant seal pictured has a CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) tag attached to it by a team of University of California, Santa Cruz researchers. This FY 05 NOPP project was led by Dr. Dan Costa of the University of California, Santa Cruz to understand apex predator and pelagic fish movements in the California Current System (CCS). The data from the tagged animals indicated the CCS is one of the most significant hotspots within the entire northeast Pacific Ocean. Read more