NOAA and two of Australia's leading science agencies announced a formal agreement Tuesday to work together to advance Pacific Ocean exploration and mapping, a major priority for NOAA and of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed by NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D., Geoscience Australia Chief Executive Officer James Johnson, Ph.D., and Toni Moate, Director of National Collections and Marine Infrastructure for Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The MOU expands upon a long-standing relationship between the two maritime nations and will help facilitate the sharing of scientific resources, personnel, technical data and products, and knowledge to support ocean exploration in the Pacific.
