NOAA Offers 'How Do We Explore' — A Free Online Ocean Exploration Course for Teachers and the Public

A free online educational workshop for formal and informal educators, ocean explorers, scientists and other interested members of the public will be available from NOAA later this month....

Scientists Successfully Use Sedation to Help Disentangle North Atlantic Right Whale

Scientists from NOAA Fisheries Service and its state and nonprofit partners successfully used at-sea chemical sedation to help cut the remaining ropes from a young North Atlantic right whale on January 15 off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Fla....

NOAA Releases Draft Management Plan for Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

Today NOAA released a comprehensive draft management plan and environmental assessment for Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary for public review and comment....

NOAA Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Overflight Rule Change for Four National Marine Sanctuaries on West Coast

Future aeronautical charts would include a reference to overflight regulations for four West Coast national marine sanctuaries under technical changes proposed by NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. The proposed change would not create a new regulation but would clarify existing overflight regulations that have been in place for many...

North American Winter Storm Forecasts to Get Boost from High-Tech NOAA Plane

NOAA has dispatched one of its highly specialized aircraft to collect atmospheric data over the North Pacific Ocean to enhance forecasts of winter storms for the entire North American continent....