July 23, 2012 Winners of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers: From left is Anthony Arguez of NOAA NCDC; Rebecca Washenfelder of CIRES (top right); and Kyle Van Houtan of NOAA Fisheries (lower right). (Credit: NOAA) The …
Cruise results will guide future management of Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary July 24, 2012 Scientists from Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and partner agencies will depart Key West Thursday aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster to map fish …
July 27, 2012 NOAA-supported scientists have found the size of this year’s Gulf of Mexico oxygen-free ‘dead zone’ to be the fourth smallest since mapping of the annual hypoxic, or oxygen-free area began in 1985. Measuring approximately 2,889 square miles …
Mission to update measurements dating to the 18th century July 30, 2012 NOAA Ship Fairweather in the Gulf of Alaska with namesake Mt. Fairweather. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) NOAA Ship Fairweather begins a 30-day survey mission in the Arctic this week, …
July 31, 2012 Left to right: V. “Ram” Ramaswamy, Ph.D., director of the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J.; Massimo Bollasina, Ph.D., of Princeton University; and Yi Ming, Ph.D., a Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory researcher …
August 1, 2012 As carbon emissions by human activities have increased (purple), some carbon has stayed in the atmosphere (red) and some has been absorbed by natural “sinks” on land and in the oceans (blue). Natural sinks, including land ecosystems and the …
Scientists find steady reduction in one type of air pollutant, although region still suffers bad air days August 9, 2012 Traffic in Los Angeles, Calif. (Credit: Puck90 via Flickr Creative Commons) In California’s Los Angeles Basin, levels of some vehicle- …
Fishing vessels in New England.Kodiak Harbor in Alaska.September 13, 2012Today, Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank issued fishery disaster determinations in the Northeast, Alaska, and in Mississippi. The declarations open the door for Congress to …
August 10, 2012 In addition to abundant Lophelia coral and anemones, numerous western roughy fish are seen living in the community (smaller cousins of the orange roughy, common in the deep Gulf of Mexico it only reaches 6 inches as opposed to 30 inches for …
Will oversee office supporting nation’s maritime economy August 14, 2012 Rear Admiral Gerd Glang has been named as director of the NOAA Office of Coast Survey and the nation’s chief hydrographer, responsible for mapping and charting of all United States …
August 15, 2012 Rear Adm. Michael S. Devany is director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps and the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations. Download here. (Credit: NOAA) Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca M. Blank yesterday appointed NOAA Rear …
August 15, 2012 According to a NOAA-led paper published today in the journal Conservation Biology, high levels of background noise, mainly due to ships, have reduced the ability of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales to communicate with each …
August 20, 2012 The IOOS is a federal, regional, and private-sector partnership working to enhance our ability to collect, deliver, and use ocean information. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) A new committee to advise federal leaders on integrating the …
August 27, 2012 Twitter activity around the April 14-15, 2012, tornado outbreaks: purple indicates severe storm warning areas and pink indicates tornado warnings. Colored dots indicate the location and time of tweets over a 24-hour period. A new NOAA award …
August 30, 2012 The University of Colorado Boulder has received a NOAA award to continue the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), pictured here on the university campus, for at least five more years. CIRES research helps …
NOAA partners with California to offer training and employment in habitat restoration; space still available for veterans to apply September 5, 2012 Veterans will get a chance to train and work on habitat restoration and fisheries monitoring through a …
Did You Know? USHCN Version 2.5 Transition Since 1987, NCDC has used observations from the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) to quantify national- and regional-scale temperature changes in the conterminous United States (CONUS). To that end, …
Press Releases FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sep. 10, 2012 Contact: Shelley Du Puy, 409-621-5151 x106 NOAA, Partners to Document Civil War-era Warship Sunk in Gulf of Mexico Battle A team of archaeologists and technicians assembled by NOAA will begin today to …
10-year project expected to reveal important findings beneficial to the United States September 12, 2012 Over the next three months, NOAA researchers will operate a mobile radar, NOAA - XPol (NOXP), in southeast France as part of the HyMeX Experiment, the …
September 17, 2012 In the sonar image from the 2009 expedition, the summit of the West Mata volcano (shown in red) is nearly a mile below the ocean surface (1,165 meters/3,882 feet), and the base (in blue), descends to nearly two miles (3,000 m/9,842 ft) …
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