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

"We're of the firm opinion the animal will die there," Burkard Baschek, head of the German Oceanographic Museum, said on Wednesday.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Hundreds of probationary workers at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration have been fired, and the fulltime staff will be trimmed by 2,000.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 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