# Presentation: 907679

## FROM THERE TO HERE
AND 
THE FUTURE
Robert M. White
NOAA Leadership Seminar
August 25, 2004

- AND
- THE FUTURE
- Robert M. White
- NOAA Leadership Seminar
- August 25, 2004

## Slide 2

## A Proud History of Service and Science

-  Coastal Survey
- 1870 Weather Bureau
- 1871 Fisheries Commission
- 		(Bureau Commercial Fisheries)
- 1965 ESSA, Environmental Science Service
-           Administration
- 1970 NOAA

## Half Century of U.S.Environmental Progress

- 1960 JFK elected President
- 1962 Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
- 1968 Stratton Commission on Oceans       “Our Nation and the Sea”
- 1968 National Environmental Policy Act

## Half Century of U.S. Environmental Progress II

- 1970 Environment Institutionalized by Nixon      (NEPA, NOAA, EPA)
- 2003 Pew Ocean Commission
- 2004 Watkins Ocean Commission

## The Making of NOAA

- Stratton Commission
- ESSA, Department of Commerce
- Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Department of Interior
- Ocean Data Center, U.S. Navy
- Great Lakes Survey, Corp of Engineers
- Sea Grant Program, National Science Foundation

## The Making of NOAA II

- Marine Minerals Technology Center, Department of Interior
- National Data Buoy Project, U.S. Coast Guard
- Recommendations not included
- Independent Agency
- Coast Guard

##    An Environmentally Integrated Agency“Science, Service and Stewardship” 

- National Missions:
- Weather and Climate Observations and Predictions
- Hydrological measurements and predictions
- Nautical charts
- Aeronautical charts
- Marine advisory services

## An Environmentally Integrated Agency II

- Fisheries management
- Protection of marine resources
- Environmental science and technology
- Others

## Unique Facilities

- Fleet of ships
- Fleet of aircraft
- Computer facilities
- Earth Orbiting Satellites
- National radar network
- National hazard warning radio network

## Policy and PoliticsLegislative Authority

- 1970 Reorganization Plan #4
- 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act
- 1972 Coastal Zone Management Act
- 1972 Marine Protection Research &          Sanctuaries Act
- 1976 Coastal Energy Impact Act
- 1978 Ocean Pollution Act
- 1978 National Climate Program Act

##       Technological    Underpinnings of Service

- Digital electronic computer
- Mathematical Modeling
- Remote Sensing technology-Radar
- Severe storms
- Charting
- Earth Orbiting Satellites
- Global Communications
- The Internet

##       NOAA Services      Fundamental Rationale

- Weather
- Agricultural, Aviation, Weather Hazards
- Climate
- Energy, Agriculture, Health
- Navigation Charts
- Nautical, Aeronautical
- Hydrology
- Observations, Drought, Floods
- Ocean Prediction
- Sea level, Tides, Currents

##          NOAA Stewardship     Preserving Our Environmental       Future

- Ocean sanctuaries and restricted areas
- Fisheries management
- Air and ocean pollution
- Coastal Zone management

## NOAA’s Global ReachLead Agency

- World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- UNESCO (IOC)
- International Whaling Commission (IWC)
- United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
- Fisheries Agreements

##       International Programs

-       World Weatherwatch  WMO
- 1960’s 	Global Atmospheric Research Program WMO
- 1965	International Hydrological Decade 	UNESCO
- 1970’s 	International Decade Ocean Exploration UNESCO
- 1970	Integrated Ocean Station System  IOC & UNESCO
- 1972	Earthwatch-Observing the Earth UN/UNEP
- 1989	International Decade for Natural Hazard reduction UN

## NOAA’s Future

- Global Earth Observation System
- Ocean and Coastal Stewardship
- Ecosystem Fisheries Management
- Climate Observations Prediction & Impact
- Hazardous Weather & Environmental Prediction
- Ocean Observation and Prediction
- Environmentally Sustainable World

##         Proposed New Organic ActsJuly 1-15, 2004

- HR4546 – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Act – Vern Ehlers (R-MI)
- HR4607 – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organic Act of 2004 – Bush Administration
- S2647 National Ocean Policy and Leadership Act – Ernest Hollings (D, SC), Ted Stevens (R-AK) *et al*