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Locally , nationally , and internationally , WHOI Sea Grant provides information about the marine environment to students , educators , coastal residents and tourists , coastal decision-makers and elected officials , individuals whose livelihood is derived from the sea , and the public at large . " In recent years , the large-scale genome sequencing project has focused efforts on sequencing the genomes of the human , chimpanzee , dog , mouse , rat , chicken , honeybee , two fruit flies , the sea urchin , two puffer fish , two sea squirts , two roundworms , several fungi , baker 's yeast , and many prokaryotes , including Escherichia coli . In 1421 : The Year China Discovered America , Gavin Menzies claims that several Chi-nese fleets sailed around the world , charting sea coasts , founding colonies , and creating a global maritime empire . Since the establishment of a marine assistance program in 1979 - - the precursor to the program 's marine advisory service ( 1990 ) and the marine extension service ( 1998 ) - - and a formal communications program in 1990 , WHOI Sea Grant has been regarded as an important source of marine-related information . And because warm water evaporates more readily than cold water , warmer sea surface temperatures contribute to more cloud formation and more rainfall downwind of the general flow of air currents . To address these concerns , WHOI Sea Grant supported several investigations , beginning in 1992 and continuing until the present , directed at better understanding the potential effects that discharges from the new outfall may have on Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays . For the past several years , WHOI Sea Grant has supported research on toxic dinoflagellate blooms . We find a decrease in sea surface temperatures of ~ 0.5C over the past 10,000 yr , whereas sea surface salinities decreased by ~ 1.5 practical salinity units .