Congress and the Bush administration have not done enough to create a national ocean policy and to strengthen NOAA to the point that it can serve as the lead ocean agency, according to the report card, which gives leaders a D+ in the category of national ocean governance reform.
The effective data coverage rate is 31% by using AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometerr) data from NOAA (National Ocean and Atmosphere Administration) satellites 12, 14 and 16.
Robert B. Vanasse, who represents groups that have lobbied to allow commercial fishing in national marine monuments in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, said Trump administration officials have been more open to outside input than their predecessors had.
But Chris Impey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, warns that only a billion years from now the swelling sun "will boil away the oceans". The Bush administration will surely be unimpressed, but it behooves the rest of us to plan ahead.
Last year he invited them to make a presentation at an event for ocean explorers that the administration sponsored.
David McKinnie, a senior adviser at the atmospheric administration's Ocean Explorer program, met the two engineers several years ago.
Next Wednesday, January 13, NRDC is breaking out the blue attire in our closets to show our support of the true blue national ocean policy the Obama administration is creating.
DFO is headed by the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans who oversees the administration of the Fisheries Act.
"Many of us in the marine community have been anxiously awaiting something from this administration that takes ocean conservation to a new level, and I think we're seeing it right now," Guggenheim says.
By using the 111-year-old law to extend federal protections to millions of acres of land and ocean for conservation, the Obama administration had eliminated the ability of people in states to decide how best to use them, Trump said.
