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November 2009 Issue -In the News

The second of four tsunami waves.

Quake Damages NOAA’s American Samoa Observatory
The second of four tsunami waves, generated from the quake, inundates local buildings in American Samoa. Photo credit: Mark Cunningham, NOAA ESRL.

NOAA World Presents

Marine spacial planning video.

Marine Spatial Planning: the Key to Our Crowded Oceans
This video addresses Marine spatial planning, a tool to minimize human-use conflicts in the ocean and protect the diverse and abundant resources that support these uses.

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Past Issues

  • September 2009 Vol 2-9
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  • July 2009 Vol 2-7
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    Did You Know ...


    sarsat.

    As of the end of October, COSPAS-SARSAT has rescued 144 people in the United States, including 112 at sea, five downed pilots and 27 personal locator beacon rescues this year. COSPAS-SARSAT is an international, humanitarian search and rescue system that uses NOAA’s Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (or SARSAT) System to detect and locate distress signals from emergency beacons on board aircraft, boats and from handheld personal locator beacons.