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JPB Foundation
JPB Foundation seeks to enhance the quality of life in the United States through transformational initiatives that promote the health of communities by creating opportunities for those living in poverty, enabling pioneering medical research, and enriching and sustaining our environment. The goal of the Environment program is to enable healthy and resilient communities through environmental sustainability, given the measurable impacts on the well-being of human and natural systems. The JPB Foundation has initially explored the energy system, with a focus on low-income housing and how retrofits of this housing stock can enable healthy and resilient communities.
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Michigan Sea Grant
The Michigan Sea Grant is a cooperative program of University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Through research, education and outreach, the program is dedicated to the protection and sustainable use of the Great Lakes and coastal resources with six extension educators located in coastal communities around the state. Michigan Sea Grant communicators, researchers and specialists provide Great Lakes information to Michigan residents, educators and stakeholders through newsletters and special publications, websites, educational displays, projects and presentations.
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Michigan State Climatologist's Office
The Michigan State Climatologist's Office is a service of the Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Geography, Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, MSU Extension and the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG). Links to current weather conditions, forecasts, weekly and monthly temperature and precipitation maps, and historical summaries are available on the Office website.
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Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO)
In 2009 the Governors of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia in 2009 signed the Mid-Atlantic Governors’ Agreement on Ocean Conservation. The Agreement established the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO) as a partnership to address shared regional priorities and provide a collective voice on region-wide coastal issues and advancement.
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Midwestern Regional Climate Center
The Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC) is one of six regional climate centers in the U. S. managed by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The MRCC is a cooperative program between NCDC and the Illinois State Water Survey - a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The MRCC serves the nine-state Midwest region (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin). MRCC research helps explain climate and its impacts on the Midwest, and provide practical solutions to specific climate problems.
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Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District (MMSD)
MMSD is a regional government agency that aims to protect Lake Michigan. They provide water reclamation and flood management services for about 1. 1 million people in 28 communities in the Greater Milwaukee Area. They serve 411 square miles that cover all, or segments of, six watersheds. Established by state law, the District is governed by 11 commissioner with taxing authority. .
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Kansas State Climatologist's Office
The Kansas State Climatologist's Office is managed by the Kansas State University (K.State) and information is decimated by the K.State Research and Extension Weather Data Library. The Library website provides daily and hourly weather data, drought, disaster, and fire information, as well as weekly station, soil, and precipitation summaries.
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Minnesota Sea Grant
The Minnesota Sea Grant, the only Sea Grant program focused entirely on Lake Superior, seeks to maintain and enhance its coastal environment and coastal economy through high-quality research, education, and outreach. This program supports research that will lead to tools and technology for responsible management and policy decisions regarding Lake Superior and inland aquatic economies and resources. Through scientific research and public education programs, the Minnesota Sea Grant conveys the needs of communities, industries, and management agencies to university scientists, and promotes the best and most current science regarding Lake Superior and inland lakes to resource users, managers, and policy-makers.
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Minnesota State Climatology Office
The Minnesota State Climatology Office (MN SCO) exists to manage, analyze, and disseminate climate information, to develop and implement or improve technical means for such activities and to coordinate the activities of data producers or suppliers to ensure the availability of high quality climate data for the State of Minnesota and its citizens.
