On NOAA's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Meteora Island, Kittie found an abundance of opportunity for discovery and exploration.A Hurricane Tour, Tsunami Demonstration, Real Time Weather Map, Science on a Sphere, Submarine Ride, Weather Balloon, and a Glacier Exhibit made kittie's visits here action packed.
On one of Kittie's early visits to NOAA, Kittie had the good
fortune to meet NOAA staff Hackshaven Harford
(Eric Hackathorn) who will be a keynote speaker at the
2009 NMC Symposium on New Media March 24-26.
The topic of Hackshaven's presentation will be Government 2.0
On NOAA's second Island, Okeanos, Kittie found the interactive map to be to be extremely interesting. When she typed in her location of Port Hadlock, WA, the map not only gave her several views of her home area, including sattelite, terrain, hybrid and normal view but also her latitude and longitude coordinates -122.795219, 48.045582. The map also features weather warnings and hurricane information.An Algal Bloom Demonstration, an Oil Spill Demo, a Marine Sanctuary Submarine Tour, a Coastal Survey, and Predictions Survey Ship Demo are a few more reasons why Kittie has found NOAA to be one of the most educational places she has visited yet.