NOAA announces contract to construct National Water Center

Thursday, NOAA announced the award of a contract to Triune-Beck, Joint Venture V of Dallas to build the new NOAA National Water Center on the campus of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa....

NOAA releases first national bycatch report Establishes methodology, baseline for future studies

A new NOAA report of data collected in 2005 will help the agency’s scientists better monitor progress in reducing bycatch - the non-target fish, marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds caught incidentally in fishing....

Agencies partner to help save endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles

NOAA’s Fisheries Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Mexican environmental officials today released an updated plan to guide and strengthen the conservation and recovery of the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. The Bi-National Recovery Plan revises the current recovery plan issued in 1992....

NOAA Ship Rainier returns to Alaska to conduct sea floor surveys in support of safe navigation

NOAA Ship Rainier has begun a month long survey of the sea floor near Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island as part of a multi-year effort to update nautical charts for the area....

'Early warning' coral reef observing network expands to the Pacific

Coral reef managers in the Northern Mariana Islands will now receive early warning of dangerous environmental conditions that can weaken and kill high value coral reefs, thanks to a new coral observing station added today in Lao Lao Bay, Saipan....