"Arctic Strategy" is open for review. Please consider if there is a "role for you" as partner.
The Arctic has profound significance for climate and functioning of ecosystems around the globe. Because the region is particularly vulnerable and prone to rapid change, NOAA must position itself to respond with quality products, services, and scientific research. To guide that effort, NOAA has developed an Arctic strategic plan and vision that will be available for public comment through June 10.
The plan will ensure that NOAA takes a strategic approach to emerging environmental, economic, and national security issues in the Arctic. It provides a high-level framework and strategic goals to address NOAA’s highest priorities in the region, including the objective to provide observations, products, and services that will support decision-making in the Arctic. NOAA will also focus on providing information that will help people in the region—defined as the Aleutian Islands north through the Bering Strait and Chukchi and Beaufort seas—to live and work safely, securely, and sustainably.
Deadline for comments is June 10, 2010. For more information, please visit: www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100519_arctic.html. |
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