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NOAA's response to the BP oil spill has been immediate, sustained, and strategic, and scientific.
It's been all hands on deck for NOAA.
We have the National Weather Service providing weather forecasts,
we had our oil war room stood up in Seattle providing information about where the oil was likely to go.
And both the weather forecasts and the oil spill trajectories were informing the initial Coast Guard efforts for the search and rescue.
Since that time, virtually every part of NOAA has been engaged in the operations, pooling all of our resources,
all of our personnel, staying on top of and providing scientific advice to the rest of the federal family and the states.
We have satellites in space, we have planes in the air, we have ships on the water,
and scientists on the ground, understanding, predicting, enabling the federal response to this disaster.