NOAA: January 2011 Ranked 17th Warmest on Record

Last month was the 17th warmest January for combined global land and ocean surface temperature since records began in 1880. La Niña, with its cooling effect on the central and eastern tropical Pacific, continues to be a factor in global ocean temperatures....

NOAA Announces FY 2012 Budget

On Feb. 14, President Obama issued the FY 2012 budget for NOAA, requesting $5.5 billion for the nation’s oceanic and atmospheric agency. The proposed budget includes key investments to strengthen NOAA’s most critical programs and initiatives, while addressing the administration’s goals....

NOAA Names New Director of National Severe Storms Laboratory

Steven Koch spent time in Norman, Okla., while he earned his doctorate in meteorology in 1979. He’ll return to Norman in late April as the new director of NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory, the laboratory most involved with tornado research....

NOAA Oceanographer Elected AAAS Fellow

Sydney Levitus, an award-winning oceanographer and researcher at NOAA, was elected as a 2010 Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Levitus will be instated on Feb. 19, with 503 other newly elected fellows during the association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C....

Administrator's Remarks to the Ocean and Coastal Science Community

As delivered on Feb. 10 by Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator...