| U.S. Commerce Deputy Secretary David A. Sampson announced NOAA has awarded $506,190 as the first installment in a five-year $2.5 million grant to the University of Michigan. The grant will be used to forecast the formation of hypoxia, or low-oxygen conditions known as dead zones in Lake Erie, and its influence on lake ecology and fish production potential. "This award is an example of how NOAA is expanding the development of ecological forecasting," said retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator. "NOAA has long been a leader in the forecasting of weather, climate and fish stocks. Ecological forecasting is a tool that synthesizes complex scientific information in a way that can support successful ecosystem approaches to the management of the nation's coasts, oceans and Great Lakes." |
