Table 7—2.——Federal laboratories conducting research related to marine 
science and engineering (continued) 
Department or agency 
facility and location 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (DOC) 
Function 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 
Southwest Fisheries Center, La Jolla, Calif. 
Honolulu Laboratory, Honolulu, Hawaii 
Tiburon Laboratory, Tiburon, Calif. 
Pacific Environmental Group 
Monterery, Calif. 
National Seafood Quality and Inspection 
Laboratory, Pascagoula, Miss. 
Environmental Research Laboratories (ERL) 
Boulder Environmental Research 
Laboratories, Boulder, Colo. 
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory 
Seattle, Wash. 
Joint Tsunami Research Effort 
Honolul, Hawaii 
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological 
Laboratories, Miami, Fla. 
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory 
Princeton, N.J. 
National Hurricane and Experimental Mete- 
orology Laboratory, Miami, Fla. 
Great Lakes Environmental Research 
Laboratory, Detroit, Mich. 
National Ocean Survey (NOS) 
Geodetic Research and Development 
Laboratory, Rockville, Md. 
Enginering Development Laboratory—Ocean 
Engineering Branch, Miami, Fla. 
Engineering Development Laboratory 
Rockville, Md. 
Office of Ocean Engineering (OOF) 
NOAA Data Buoy Office 
Bay St. Louis, Miss. 
National Environmental Satellite Service (NESS) 
Spacecraft Oceanography Project 
Suitland, Md. 
Research and management studies for commercial and sport fisheries. 
Study of high-seas tropical pelagic fishery resources. 
Conducting studies on living resources and their environment of 
coastal waters of Southwest Region of NMFS. 
Conduct marine environmental studies, provide oceanographic and 
meteorological data, and interpret data and interrelationships for use 
in fisheries and environmental forecasting. 
Conduct and coordinate chemical, physical, microbiological, public 
health, nutritional, engineering, and food-processing research studies 
to provide measurements and standards of seafood quality and 
sanitary handling. 
Research related to lower and upper atmosphere, space environment, 
and solid earth. 
Research toward a fuller understanding of ocean basins and borders. 
Research on transfer of earthquake energy to tsunami energy and 
propagation. 
Research on ocean basins and borders, oceanic processes and ocean- 
atmospheric interactions. 
Investigations of dynamics and physics of geophysical fluid systems. 
Develops experimental methods to change atmospheric processes arti- 
ficially and in a reproducible manner. 
Define present condition of Great Lakes. 
Carries out research and development in geodesy in support of opera- 
tions directed ' towards improving accurate determination of earth’s 
configuration and distributing of mass. 
Development of ocean structures and platforms in support of data 
acquisition of NOAA. 
Provides design, development, and test of data acquisition and process- 
ing systems for use in ocean environment. 
Research, development, test and evaluation of a spectrum of data 
buoys with sensors, power supplies, hull sizes, and data processing 
and communications systems. 
Research and development in application of aerospace remote sensing 
techniques to oceanography. 
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