Actually, if you check the website, it appears that the Center for 
Submerged Resources is moving to Colorado....from New Mexico.  
Apparently there's precedent for locating the CSR in unexpected places.

http://home.nps.gov/applications/submerged/index.htm

Michelle

Denis Gojak wrote:
> Geoff, you got it wrong
>
> Its a visionary, proactive governmental response to projected climate 
> change-induced sea level rise.
>
> They deserve our respectful applause, as do the New South Wales 
> Department of Fisheries.  They also moved from Sydney [-by-sea] to the 
> similarly land-locked city of Orange.
>
> Take that, climate seceptics!
>
> Denis
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "geoff carver" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 5:47 AM
> Subject: Re: NPS Archeology E-Gram -for a laugh
>
>
>> Maybe it's a metaphorical submergence: submerged in an ocean of red 
>> ink &
>> bureaucracy?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> I got a chuckle out of reading that a center for submerged resources is
>> moving to Colorado. A land-locked state with no major bodies of 
>> water? Of
>> course!
>> This sounds like so many jokes about stupid decisions by big government,
>> that it's hard to believe there may be perfectly logical and reasonable
>> reasons to base it there.
>> Thanks for the laugh of the day.
>>
>>
>>
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