Despite their avowed claim to appeal to the entire state, in 2009 the Diamondbacks moved their Triple-A Pacific Coast League farm team, the Tucson Sidewinders, to Reno, where they are now known as the Aces.

In January 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.

According to NOAA, El Niño conditions were in place in the equatorial Pacific Ocean starting June 2009, peaking in January – February.

In January 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.

The 2009 constitution of Bolivia states that the country has an unrenounceable right over the territory that gives it access to the Pacific Ocean and its maritime space.

In January 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.

On January 6th 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.

In January 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.

The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, including Palmyra Atoll, was established on January 6, 2009.

On 13 January 2009, Adm. Robert F. Willard, head of the U. S. Pacific Command, called the PLAN's modernization " aggressive ," and that it raised concerns in the region.

For the first time in 65 years, Pacific Harbor Porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena ) returned to the Bay in 2009.

On January 6, 2009, President George W. Bush included the atoll as a part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

Where the subspecies separation is not accepted, whether to consider it a subpopulation of the Atlantic or Pacific subspecies remained under debate until 2009, when multiple lines of molecular evidence showed it to represent the westernmost population of the Pacific walrus.

In 2009 the Pierce Brahmas won the American Pacific Conference, losing in the first round of bowl playoffs to the National Champs Mt.

As of January 6, 2009 U. S. President Bush announced that several remote Pacific islands under U. S. jurisdiction are now national monuments, protecting coral reefs.

However, a large proportion of catches is not reported at species level ; in the FAO fishery statistics, the category " Croakers, drums, not elsewhere included ", is the largest one within Sciaenidae, with annual landings of 431, 000 – 780, 000 tonnes in 2000 – 2009, most of which were reported from the Western Indian Ocean ( FAO fishing area 51 ) and Northwest Pacific ( FAO fishing area 61 ).

A similar pattern emerged in a study in 2009 based on morphology, including color, dermal denticles and teeth: A smaller species, up to about in width, M. alfredi is found in the Indo-Pacific and tropical east Atlantic, and a larger, up to at least in width, M. birostris is found throughout tropical, subtropical and warm temperate oceans, but it has not yet been documented from most islands in the southwest Pacific.

Royal New Zealand Navy Petty Officer Richard Boyd dances with Tonga n school children during a Pacific Partnership 2009 community service project at Faleloa Primary School.

Students at the Majuro Cooperative School raise the Republic of Marshall Islands flag at a flag raising ceremony during a Pacific Partnership 2009 community service project

On September 29, 2009, an earthquake struck in the South Pacific, near Samoa and American Samoa, sending a tsunami into Pago Pago and surrounding areas.

Mitochondrial DNA sequences in 2009 have identified five distinct California sea lion populations: the US or Pacific Temperate stock, the Western Baja California or Pacific Tropical stock, and the Southern, Central, and Northern Gulf of California stocks.

The kakapo was featured in the documentary series South Pacific ( known as Wild Pacific in US ) episode Strange Islands, originally aired on June 13, 2009.

The UCSF drug and alcohol abuse specialty ranks fifth nationally in the 2009 survey, while family medicine ranks sixth, pediatrics tenth, and geriatrics ninth.

In the World Economic Forum 2008 / 2009 Global Competitiveness Report, the country ranks first in Africa and 36th globally for economic competitiveness, well ahead of Portugal ( 43 ), Italy ( 49 ) and Greece ( 67 ).

With an Arbitron-assigned 836, 700 listening area population, the metropolitan area of which Bonita Springs is one part ranks 61 / 300 for the spring of 2009.

IDC's Worldwide Database Management Systems 2009 – 2013 Forecast and 2008 Vendor Shares ranks Oracle database as the leader in DBMS marketing share, followed by IBM DB2 and then Microsoft SQL Server.

According to the 2009 population data, Alicante ranks as the 4th most populous province in Spain ( after Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia ), with 1, 917, 012 inhabitants.

* 2009: Forrester Research ranks Teradata as number 1 amongst enterprise data warehousing for their current offering.

In 2009, the first such programs appeared which could reach and hold low dan-level ranks on the KGS Go Server also on the 19x19 board.

The Hong Kong Comic World 2009 voice over competition's workers ' uniforms were replicas of the uniforms of the 4 different ranks of the Zeon forces.

The revenue and profit numbers are for the year previous to the named year: therefore the 2010 list ranks companies by 2009 revenues.

With 1, 400 television stations as of 2009, the country ranks 4th in the list of countries by number of television broadcast stations.

* In several National Science Foundation research subcategories for fiscal year 2009, NDSU ranks in the top 100 in several areas, including agricultural sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and chemistry.

* NDSU ranks 124th out of 697 research universities in the U. S. The ranking is based on total research expenditures reported in fiscal year 2009.

Overall, in daytime programming ( excluding Saturday and Sunday ), The Price Is Right is ranked sixth among the longest-continuing daytime television programs ( NBC's Today ranks the longest, followed by four daytime soap operas: Guiding Light, As the World Turns, General Hospital, and Days of our Lives ), and moved into fifth in September 2009 after Guiding Light aired its final episode on CBS.

KKE is currently trying to mold a loose and rather disorganised international communist movement along a purely Marxist-Leninist line ; since its 18th Congress ( February 2009 ) KKE has opened up a discussion within the ranks and more broadly within the Greek left-leaning community on the future evolution of communism in the 21st century, with a particular emphasis on examining the causes of the collapse of the Socialist system in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe.

On Wednesday 20 May 2009, supporters of the resolution instead agreed to accept language urging Democrats to " stop pushing our country towards socialism and government control ", thus ending a fight within the ranks of the Republican Party that reflected the divide between those who want a more centrist message and those seeking a more aggressive, conservative voice, such as the one expressed by the Tea Party movement.

He played in the Under 20's again in 2009 before moving onto the ranks of the New South Wales Cup.

Its clubs are largely drawn from the Edinburgh, Lothians and Scottish Borders areas, although with a number of clubs having opted to join their ranks from the SoSFL in recent years: ( Annan Athletic, who left when elected to the SFL in 2008 ; Threave Rovers, who subsequently left to rejoin the SoSFL ; and Dalbeattie Star, who resigned as members in July 2009 to concentrate on the SoSFL ) mean there are other clubs, Gretna 2008 and Stirling University, from other areas too.

As of 2009, U. S. News & World Report ranks the university as the 60th best among liberal arts schools in their annual Best Colleges edition.

The zoo continuously ranks among the top zoos in the nation, recently ranked as the ninth best zoo in America by Child magazine in 2004 and fifth best zoo in the nation by Parents magazine in 2009.

The team advanced to the top level of the NEPSAC Division 2 ranks and in the 2009 / 2010 season joined the NEPSAC Division 1.

U. S. News America's Best Colleges 2009 ranks Champlain College 12th among baccalaureate colleges in the North.

The Civic hybrid ranks as the second best selling electric hybrid car in the U. S. As of the end of January 2009, the total global sales of all Civic hybrid exceeded 255, 000.