Dr. Jane Lubchenco, a marine ecologist and environmental scientist, is the ninth Administrator of NOAA.
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Jane Lubchenco I'm very excited to share this spectacular video with you. It's an undersea eruption near Fiji, taking place nearly 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Scientists funded by NOAA and the National Science Foundation recently recorded this as the deepest erupting volcano yet discovered. Take a look and let ...me know what you think. If you'd like to learn more, or view additional photos and video, visit www.noaa.gov.
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Scientists funded by NOAA and the National Science Foundation recorded the deepest erupting volcano yet discovered, describing high-definition video of the undersea eruption as spectacular. Eruption of ...
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This morning, I gave a presentation at COP15 about the impact of climate change on our oceans.
Here are a few photos of this event. In the two slides pictured, I'm discussing the increasing temperatures, as well as the expected and predicted increases in carbon dioxide of our oceans.
To find the entire presentation, vis...it http://www.commerce.gov/cop15.
I'll be in attendance through December 16. Check back frequently, as I'll be posting from Copenhagen on Facebook and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/usnoaagov.
Jane Lubchenco Today we’ve moved another major step forward toward upholding our national stewardship responsibilities to our treasured oceans, coasts and Great Lakes.The president’s Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, on which I serve, has just issued its “Draft Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning” for public review and comment. Take a look.
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Jane Lubchenco Just in time for COP15, NOAA has just launched an agency-wide Facebook fan page www.facebook.com/usnoaagov, a Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/usnoaagov and a YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/usnoaagov. What's the difference between my Facebook page and the NOAA page? My page will continue to share things from my pers...pective, while the NOAA page will feature news, staff highlights, video and images from a broader NOAA point of view. For more information about our social media activities, visit www.noaa.gov.
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A bird's eye view of COP15 activity on Thursday, December 10. Look carefully, and you can see the US Center and NOAA's Science on a Sphere in the background.
We're hearing from some of our staff abroad that conference is now in full swing, and I'm really looking forward to joining in when I arrive in Copenhagen tomorro...w.
From December 12 -16, you can follow my activities and updates here on Facebook or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/usnoaagov, which we just launched today.
Jane Lubchenco NOAA released today for public comment a draft national policy encouraging the use of catch shares, a fishery management tool that aims to end overfishing and rebuild and sustain fishing jobs and fishing communities. In doing so, NOAA recognized that catch shares are not a one-size-fits-all solution, but are a proven w...ay to promote sustainable fishing when designed properly at the fishing community level. Take a moment to learn more about this draft policy.
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NOAA released today for public comment a draft national policy encouraging the use of catch shares, a fishery management tool that aims to end overfishing and rebuild and sustain fishing jobs and fishing communities. ...
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I returned today from the Gulf area, after participating in meetings of the Louisiana Mississippi Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Working Group. As part of this two-day effort, we heard from the staff of elected officials from Congress, state and local government as well as local community leaders and stakeholders aff...ected by Hurricanes. We spoke with the news media and a diverse group of thought leaders and stakeholders, including commercial fishermen, recreational fishing, oil and gas industry, transportation and ports, conservation groups, NGOs and academics.
It was a very busy but productive couple of days. The trip was extremely useful in giving us more specific, concrete understanding of what some of the challenges and opportunities are for coastal restoration in the area.
Here are a few photos from the trip.
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Jane Lubchenco
This morning, I gave a presentation at COP15 about the impact of climate change on our oceans.
Here are a few photos of this event. In the two slides pictured, I'm discussing the increasing temperatures, as well as the expected and predicted increases in carbon dioxide of our oceans.
To find the entire presentation, vis...it http://www.commerce.gov/cop15.
I'll be in attendance through December 16. Check back frequently, as I'll be posting from Copenhagen on Facebook and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/usnoaagov.
Jane Lubchenco News from Copenhagen: If you were to visit the US Center at COP15 this week, there's no way you could miss the room-sized globe hanging from the ceiling, projecting all sorts of interesting animated images of storms, climate change, and ocean temperature. NOAA's Science on a Sphere is the center piece of the US visitor...’s area at the conference this year, and so far it's a big hit. But you don't have to be in Copenhagen to see it in action. Visit the link below and let me know what you think. Also, keep an eye out for a few photos of the Sphere in action at COP15 - I'll post them shortly.
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I'm currently in Louisiana and Mississippi with representatives of several federal agencies and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairwoman, Nancy Sutley. We're attending two days of important meetings about ways to speed up ecosystem restoration efforts in these areas. Unlike many other coastal communities..., there’s a great appreciation here for the importance of coastal wetlands to their lives and livelihood. The Louisiana Mississippi Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Working Group heard in no uncertain terms that there is keen desire to move aggressively in restoring the wetlands. We heard repeatedly a call for big, bold ideas.As part of my trip, I visited the Lower 9th Ward and the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion Project site. Here's a photo of the first housw restored in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward by the Make It Right Foundation, which is also famous for celebrity creator, actor Brad Pitt. This house is LEED-platinum certified, the highest green rating a building can have.
The trip was extremely useful in giving us more specific, concrete understanding of some of the challenges and opportunities in the area.
Pictured: Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Richie Katko of the Make It Right Foundation, and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairwoman, Nancy Sutley
Jane Lubchenco Check out this video of Sunday's successful disentanglement of a juvenile humpback whale in Hawaii. This video shows the team throwing grappling gear to carefully snag the tangled line around the whale. The entanglement involved hundreds of feet of heavy gauge, yellow poly line, originating from both sides of the whale...'s mouth. The line crossed tightly over the whale's head behind the blowholes to form a knot, which then trails hundreds of feet behind as two lines. One of the trailing lines ended with a bundle of fishing gear.
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Late Sunday afternoon, a juvenile humpback whale found entangled in a web of polypropylene rope off the coast of Hawaii last week was set free. Members from NOAA’s Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA’s Pacific Islands Regional Office and Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources (DL...NR) were allowed close enough to cut the lines using specialized equipment after a U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat crossed the Kaiwi channel from Oahu to waters west of Moloka`i.
Visit the Sanctuary's new website at http://hawaiihumpbackwhale.noaa.gov for more information about this effort.
Jane Lubchenco Today marks the start of the much-anticipated United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, also referred to as COP-15. World leaders from more than 190 nations, including President Obama and senior Administration officials, will meet to discuss potential solutions to the global threat of climate change. NOAA... scientists and Commerce officials - including me - will be blogging and chatting online straight from Copenhagen. I will also be communicating with you on Facebook and hope you’ll join the discussion. To follow all of NOAA’s COP-15 activities, visit our new “one-stop” COP-15 Web site, below, to access full coverage of NOAA/Commerce-specific event information, daily blogs, webcasts, presentations, video and breaking news right from your desktop.
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The U.S. is committed to forging an international response and achieving a successful outcome at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen, December 7-18.
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