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Katherine Horst
Email: khorst@oceanleadership.org
Katherine has contributed 104 articles for us. See below:
Monmouth University President Takes on New Role
For the better part of three decades, Paul G. Gaffney II toured the world’s oceans — above and below — as one of the U.S. Navy’s most respected oceanographers.
MMS Funding Expedition to Study Deepwater Coral Habitats
A joint expedition funded by MMS and NOAA to study the distribution and abundance of deepwater coral habitats in the Gulf of Mexico recently departed from Key West, Florida. This project is conducted under the auspices of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program.
NOPP Funding Announcement
For funding beginning in FY 2010, the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) welcomes research proposals meeting the goal of partnerships between at least two of the following three sectors: academia, industry (including NGOs), and government.
Monmouth University President Assumes Leadership Role of Federal Advisory Committee
Monmouth University is pleased to announce that on August 12 President Paul G. Gaffney II was named the new chair of the Ocean Research & Resources Advisory Panel (ORAP), a panel created by statute to advise federal agencies regarding ocean science and management matters.
NOPP Special Issue of Oceanography
As part of the continued celebration of the first ten years of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), the current issue of Oceanography magazine highlights ocean research conducted through NOPP and the downstream impacts of ocean partnerships on the field of oceanography.
Multi-sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperature Research Team Wins NOPP Excellence in Partnering Award
The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) presented the Excellence in Partnering award to the Multi-sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperature (MISST) for the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) project.
Ocean Carbon: A Dent in the Iron Hypothesis
Oceanographers Jim Bishop and Todd Wood of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have measured the fate of carbon particles originating in plankton blooms in the Southern Ocean.
Cold-Water Corals: Deepwater Coral Expedition in the Gulf of Mexico
The search for domestic energy sources is progressing to great depths in the Gulf of Mexico. As economic interests move oil and gas operations into these previously unexplored areas, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) works to increase understanding of the organisms residing at these depths.
MMS Underway with $3.7 Million Deepwater Coral Study
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has begun a $3.7 million, four-year study of deepwater corals in the Gulf of Mexico. The study contract, which focuses on deepwater coral communities that have formed both naturally and on oil and gas platforms and shipwrecks, was awarded to TDI International Inc.
Teachers Navigate the Web
Vicki Clark remembers how she and other Sea Grant educators used to illustrate the powers and pitfalls of the Internet for teachers
