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Hurricane season is heating up. NOAA’s National Weather Service warned in May that this might be one of the busiest hurricane seasons on record with over 20 named storms. http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurricane.shtml The bands of warm water moving from the coast of … Continue reading

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When I was a kid in the ‘80s, el Niňo was a household word. If we had a big storm, our science teacher at school would talk about el Niňo and oceanic effects. I was at College of the Atlantic … Continue reading

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In August the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) quietly closed down the St. Petersburg office that was the home of the National Wetland Inventory (NWI) for 32 years. It is hard nowadays to appreciate that the NWI and associated … Continue reading

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