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NASA, Cisco collaborate to integrate climate data, Web technology. The Planetary Skin platform will capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world.

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The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation is coordinating the Capitol Hill Oceans Week 2009. The goal of this year's Capitol Hill Ocean Week is to highlight the inextricable link between the ocean and the economy, and to suggest tangible ways sound ocean policies might impact improvements in our economy.

Oceans Week 2009 is sponsored by a mix of public and private sponsors. The event takes place June 9- 11, 2009. The three-day event is focused on informing the Congressional Delegation on ocean issues and their effects on our nation's economy.

The newly developed video demonstration of the OOSTethys architecture premiered at the 2007 Fall Meeting of the AGU. It will be folded in to other eGY demonstrations throughout 2008.

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Given the magnitude and complexity of the issues, ocean research programs have much to gain by improving their ability to share ocean data, which almost always has spatial context. Not surprisingly, the oceans research community is aggressively implementing and using OGC standards to improve organizational, regional and global capabilities to access, process, integrate and apply ocean information, including real time sensor data.