U.S. Naval Research Laboratory awarded an almost $1 million grant to the University of New Orleans for its newly established Joseph Canizaro and James Livingston Center for Environmental Informatics. The grant money is to assist researchers develop ways of mining and visualizing data that the Navy collects about oceans and the atmosphere. The new center focuses on data information and how it is applied to environmental science. (Source:
Times-Picayune 01/25/16)