Ocean acidification among NOAA's top priorities under agency's newest director (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] October 28, 2014
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Climate change and Acidic oceans - a chat with the nation’s top fisheries official after this
The changing climate and chemistry of our oceans is definitely on radar screens of federal planet watchers. That’s the assurance of Kathryn Sullivan, new director of the National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration.
"I don’t need to tell Alaskans – you are living it, you see it all around you. And the consequences that have societally, economically, ecologically-- you all are living it every day."
Sullivan calls NOAA the nation’s environmental intelligence agency. For example, increased and ongoing intelligence being gathered by monitoring programs are providing more and better science on the impacts of ocean acidification. That, she says, will guide actions that lead to better decision making...
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