200th Anniversary of NOAA

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NOAA is celebrating its 200th anniversary, of course including its predecessors, such as the US Coast and Geodetic Survey. I just watched a neat internet movie: NOAA 200th Anniversary showing our coastal mapping history since the founding by Thomas Jefferson.

Really good, lot of early pics and recreations. Early charts.

Boris
 
There is a station in San Francisco Bay that has measured the rise and fall of tides continuously ever since June 30, 1854, making it the nation’s oldest continually operating tidal observation station. This location also has the longest continuous tide record in the Western Hemisphere. The gauge even survived the earthquake of 1906.

The website about it is here.

NOAA also made and excellent brochure about the history:150 YEARS OF TIDES ON THE WESTERN COAST:THE LONGEST SERIES OF TIDAL OBSERVATIONS IN THE AMERICAS

David
 
thanks very informative

I thought the 200th anniversary was in 2007. Did I miss something?
 
Happy birthday NOAA. We use your charts all the time, we depend on your work to keep us in safe waters but you get no respect.
 
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