NOAA Announces Funding to Support Ocean and Coastal Observation Technologies

A $4 million NOAA grant will help a university consortium evaluate the readiness of marine forecasts, such as flooding from storm surge or seasonal dead zones, along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts and improve those forecasts for use by emergency managers, scientific researchers and the general public....

NOAA Protects U.S. Waters From Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

A Spanish-flagged fishing vessel faces a possible $7.4 million civil penalty for 67 counts of fishing in U.S. waters without a U.S. permit, according to NOAA’s Office of General Counsel for Enforcement and Litigation in the Pacific Islands region. The penalty would be the highest ever assessed by NOAA....

NOAA Selects University of Washington to Lead Joint Institute to Study Atmosphere, Ocean

NOAA has selected the University of Washington to continue leadership of a federal/academic research partnership that will look at tsunamis, ocean acidification, marine ecosystems and fisheries, climate change and other issues that affect millions in the Pacific Northwest and beyond....

NOAA: Near-Normal U.S. Temperatures and Above-Normal U.S. Precipitation in May

NOAA’s State of the Climate report shows the May 2010 average temperature for the contiguous United States was 60.8 degrees F, which is 0.2 degrees F below the long-term (1901-2000) average. May’s average precipitation was 3.10 inches, 0.23 inch above the 1901-2000 average....

NOAA Deploys Additional High Powered Research Aircraft to Gulf to Help Monitor Air Quality

A second NOAA WP-3D Orion aircraft was deployed to the Gulf today to build on current air quality monitoring efforts near the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill....