Understanding historical hurricane landfalls important in preparing for current storms August 25, 2011 Would you like to know about historical storm activity for your hometown? Are you looking for a specific storm track? Are you curious to know where …
August 30, 2011 A humpback whale feeds in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Download here. (Credit: NOAA) NOAA and France’s Protected Areas Agency have signed a “sister sanctuary” agreement to support the protection of endangered humpback whales …
September 1, 2011 NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson continues today on a three-month survey of the sea floor off the coast of New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, as part of a multi-year effort to update nautical charts for Block Island Sound and keep large …
September 2, 2011 Dave O’Gorman prepares to deploy a PMEL Argo float off of the R/V Wecoma in 2007. Download here. (Credit: ARGO/NOAA) Scientists can now remotely monitor the ocean’s changing chemistry with help from some of the five-foot-tall Argo floats …
September 7, 2011 The “moment of discovery” – The site where ‘chemosynthetic’ shrimp and tubeworms were observed together for what scientists believe is the first time in the world. These animals, relying on symbiotic chemosynthetic bacteria, derive energy …
September 15, 2011 Today, in a report to Congress, the President concurred with the Secretary of Commerce's recommendations and directed federal agencies to take actions to encourage Iceland to change its whaling policy. In July, then-Secretary of …
September 7, 2011 NOAA's National Weather Service ranks in the top 15 percent of federal agencies for customer satisfaction, according to a recent public survey. With an essential public safety mission, the agency rated 84 on a scale of 0 to 100 – a …
Weather risk services firm launches AER Respond for insurers to better manage hail claims September 7, 2011 Significant damage to a home in Norman, Okla., caused by hail on June 14. Download here. (Credit: AER/NOAA) A collaboration announced today uses …
Texas has warmest summer on record of any state September 8, 2011 Each dot represents a day where temperatures met or exceeded 100 degrees. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) The blistering heat experienced by the nation during August, as well as the June …
New report offers way forward to reduce deaths during dangerous tornadoes September 20, 2011 Image showing damage from the tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011. Download here. (Credit: NOAA) Today, NOAA’s National Weather Service released its …
September 8, 2011 La Niña, which contributed to extreme weather around the globe during the first half of 2011, has re-emerged in the tropical Pacific Ocean and is forecast to gradually strengthen and continue into winter. Today, forecasters with NOAA’s …
September 8, 2011 Beginning today, NOAA will refer new law enforcement cases to administrative law judges (ALJs) from the Environmental Protection Agency. Over the last several months, NOAA has worked with the Office of Personnel Management to find a new …
September 12, 2011 NOAA researchers and collaborators used instruments aboard a research aircraft and the NOAA-sponsored Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's research vessel Atlantis (pictured) to make a detailed study of emissions from a container …
September 14, 2011 NOAA has awarded $18,700 to State University of New York scientists to document the first known incidence of a bloom of harmful algae off Long Island’s south shore, study its effects on the area’s shellfish, and test a method that could …
September 15, 2011 A perspective of the seafloor showing preliminary results of gas seeps detected NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer multibeam sonar in vicinity of Biloxi Dome in Northern Gulf of Mexico. Gas seep locations are shown as blue dots and are overlaid …
Establishes methodology, baseline for future studies September 22, 2011 Researchers from NOAA Fisheries and the Oregon Department of Fisheries and Wildlife use sonar to study fishing techniques that improve selectivity and reduce bycatch on a commercial …
September 15, 2011 NOAA scientist Amy Merten and her team are one of four finalists for the Samuel J. Heyman Partnership for Public Service to America Medal for Homeland Security NOAA scientist Amy Merten and her team are one of four finalists for the …
September 15, 2011 Global surface temperature Anomalies - August 2011. High Resolution (Credit: NOAA) The globe had its eighth warmest August since record keeping began in 1880, while June through August was the seventh warmest such period on record. The …
Changes will help guide conservation efforts September 16, 2011 NOAA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final rule today changing the listing of loggerhead sea turtles under the Endangered Species Act from a single threatened species to nine …
September 16, 2011 NOAA’s just-completed first edition VDatum tool will allow users to combine and transform geospatial data from different sources onto a single vertical reference surface, removing the largest obstacle GIS users face when creating …
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