The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $20.5 million grant to 13 different projects across the U.S. for Ocean and Coastal Management.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - funds. $1.3 million will be going toward the Alaska Ocean Observing System.
“This allows us to do a lot more than we have had planned,” AOOS Executive Director Sheyna Wisdom said. “A lot of the equipment that our researchers use from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and others has been operating in the Artic and other hostile working environments for quite a bit of time, and its just expensive to upgrade this equipment that is breaking down,” Wisdom said.
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