Coastal News Today | USA - Biden taps ocean scientist Rick Spinrad to run NOAA
President Biden has picked Rick Spinrad, an oceanographer with decades of science and policy experience, to run National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the government’s leading agency for weather, climate and ocean science. The White House announced Spinrad’s selection along with several additional climate and environmental nominees, including Tracy Stone-Manning, a senior adviser for the National Wildlife Federation tapped to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau for Land Management. Spinrad, a professor of oceanography at Oregon State University, served as chief scientist at ...
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