1996年7月,沿岸物理海洋学家Henry Frey博士接任美国国家海洋资料中心的主任后,就致力于平衡沿海与深海的资料管理,并使用户能更加容易地获得沿海方面的数据。 为了实现这些目标,国家海洋资料中心于1997年3月同美国国家海洋大气局(NOAA)的海岸服务中心、沿海项目办公室及罗得岛大学海洋学研究 In July 1996, following the success of Dr. Henry Frey, a coastal physical oceanographer, as the director of the National Oceanographic Data Center in the United States, he devoted himself to balancing coastal and deep-sea data management and making it easier for users to access coastal data. To achieve these goals, the National Oceanographic Data Center, in March 1997, collaborated with the Coastal Services Center of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Coastal Project Office and the University of the Rhode Island Oceanographic Research