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Saludos to NOAA on its 200th Celebration from Dr. Pablo Clemente-Colon,Puerto Rico born chief scientist of the U.S. National Ice Center. Dr. Clemente-Colon is making a final adjustment to an ice beacon deployed on a multi-yearice floe. Bruce Elder, a research scientist with the U.S. Army's CRREL, lookson, while helicopter pilot Lambert De Gavere returns to helicopter.