oceanographic
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“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
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
Yet a community of animals lives on the nodules themselves, and they would be eradicated if they are mined, said Lauren Mullineaux, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
From Salon • May 21, 2025
The US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has warned that this seabed mining could “result in the destruction of life and the seabed habitat in the mined areas”.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024
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
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