New NOAA Website Highlights Economic and Ecological Value of America’s Coast

NOAA today launched State of the Coast, an important new website that provides coastal managers, planners and officials at all levels of government a snapshot of statistics, facts and graphics about America’s 95,000-miles of coastline....

Study Shows Big Economic Benefits of NOAA PORTS® Ocean Observing System in Portland, Ore.

The lower Columbia River area receives an estimated annual economic benefit of $6.4 million in savings and direct income from the operation of NOAA’s Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System, also known as PORTS®, according to a new study by NOAA and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution....

Initial Observations from the NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson

NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson returned to Galveston, Texas, from an eight-day research mission to investigate the presence and distribution of subsurface oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill. The mission collected water samples for chemical analysis and tested the feasibility of using acoustic and flourometric scanning to help find potential...

NOAA Urges, “When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors!”

As NOAA’s National Weather Service hosts the 10th national Lightning Safety Awareness Week June 20-26, everyone is urged to heed this warning - when thunder roars go indoors!...

NOAA Releases New Management Plan for Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

NOAA today released the final management plan for Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, which will guide the sanctuary’s resource protection and conservation efforts over the next five years....