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Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) - Seattle, WA and Newport, OR; The NOAA Research Laboratories conduct an integrated program of research, technology development, and services to improve the understanding of Earth's atmosphere, oceans and inland waters, and to describe and predict changes occurring to them.
The soil of Seattle, the county's (and state's) largest city, is approximately 80% glacial drift, most of which is Vashon glacial deposits , [7] and nearly all of the city's major named hills are characterized as drumlins (Beacon Hill, First Hill, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne Hill) or drift uplands (Magnolia, West Seattle).
Pacific Science Center sits on 7.1 acres (29,000 m 2) of land at the southwest corner of Seattle Center.A satellite campus, the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center, is a collaboration between Pacific Science Center and the City of Bellevue, Washington with educational programming for all ages about environmental stewardship, wetland ecology and nature awareness.
Lorna Moore takes in the view at the Earth Funeral forest site north of Quilcene, Washington, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Moore plans to have her remains composted and placed on the conservation land.
The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.
Dry Falls in Eastern Washington has been named to the International Union of Geological Sciences “The First 100 Geological Heritage Sties” for its impact in understanding the Earth.
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Using OSCURS (Ocean Surface Currents Simulation), a computer simulator developed by Seattle oceanographer Jim Ingraham, Ebbesmeyer tracked the oceanic movement of all kinds of flotsam, including 34,000 ice hockey gloves washed off the Hyundai Seattle in 1994. Prior to this, he had specialized in forecasting the movement of oil spills and sewage.