2020 Coastal Management Photo Contest Winners Areas We Protect
PHOTO BY TOM MUEHLEISEN
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ational Estuaries Week is a time set aside to commemorate the remarkably productive estuaries found throughout the nation. Each year NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management hosts a photo contest to showcase and honor the 29 national estuarine research reserves – in which NOAA partners with state programs, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations – around the country. The photos offer unique perspectives of the research, education, and recreational aspects within these magnificent ecosystems.
Fog hanging over the Lower Spring Branch at Rush Ranch, San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.
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Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory develops its general circulation model, the first for projecting future climate change and still a significant development for climate science and weather forecasting.
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