amount of funding to do some seasonal gauging and we've actually started a data collection effort. It's a seven year effort, and this year was the first year. So, as that moves along, in the future we need to, you know, start to educate people and communicate out what this is going to mean to people. But we also have a tidal epoch update coming. Every 25 years, we'll look to see what kind of changes there's been in the sea level, and do we need to make adjustments to our tidal datum, so that they're still relevant, and I'm going to -- I'm going to guess pretty confidently here that we're going to have to do that. Vdatum, our main role is to do the tide gauging surveys to reduce the uncertainty in the models. We've done a couple of multi-year projects in the New England Northeast and the Pacific Northwest the few last years. A couple new models have been rolled out in the areas there
amount of funding to do some seasonal gauging and we've actually started a data collection effort. It's a seven year effort, and this year was the first year. So, as that moves along, in the future we need to, you know, start to educate people and communicate out what this is going to mean to people. But we also have a tidal epoch update coming. Every 25 years, we'll look to see what kind of changes there's been in the sea level, and do we need to make adjustments to our tidal datum, so that they're still relevant, and I'm going to -- I'm going to guess pretty confidently here that we're going to have to do that. Vdatum, our main role is to do the tide gauging surveys to reduce the uncertainty in the models. We've done a couple of multi-year projects in the New England Northeast and the Pacific Northwest the few last years. A couple new models have been rolled out in the areas there
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