NOAA & SeaKeepers Sign New Letter of Agreement

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NOAA & SeaKeepers Sign New LOA

Dr. Richard spinrad, Director of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA and SeaKeepers CEO John Englander sign new Letter of Agreement (LOA) for cooperation on use of Seakeepers' data in relation to NOAA's mission of Climate Prediction and to assess SeaKeepers data against all of NOAA's goals and line offices. Until this LOA, NOAA had been using SeaKeepers data only in the area of Ocean Weather Prediction. Englander stated, "We are pleased to advancee our relationship with NOAA. It is gratifying to see them acknowledging our data has climate relevance in addition to marine weather."

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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. . .
With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.
Pres. Gerald R. Ford (1970)

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