oceanographic

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Sadly, a “prolonged, dangerous heat wave will intensify across most of the central to eastern U.S. this week,” the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Institute, a federal scientific and regulatory agency, now warns.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026

“If you put the shark nets in, all these protected species are going to die—that’s a guarantee,” said Ryan Daly, a senior scientist at South Africa’s Oceanographic Research Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Wildlife experts from the German Oceanographic Museum and the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research said the whale was severely injured with visible skin detachments.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Without an outcry from fishermen, scientists and anyone who needs an accurate weather forecast, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration seems doomed.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2025

It has, to be sure, linkages of various kinds, arrangements with outside universities for certain graduate programs, and it adheres delicately, somewhat ambiguously, to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute just up the street.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas