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The U.S. Senate on Thursday gave its blessing to key members of President Barack Obama’s science team, including an Oregon State University ecologist who will be the first woman and first marine scientist to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harvard physicist John Holdren as Obama’s top science adviser and Oregon State ecologist Jane Lubchenco as administrator of NOAA, an agency that does much of the nation’s climate-change research, forecasts the weather and regulates commercial fishing.
