Category: CT

NOAA SEEKS EXPERTS TO REVIEW AGENCY’S ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH AND SCIENCE ENTERPRISE The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks a team of experts to review its mix of scientific activities and organization of its ecosystem research and science. The review team will recommend steps to meet the needs of NOAA’s mandate to effectively assess and monitor […]

NOAA Reports Heightened Space Weather For the past five days, forecasters at the NOAA Space Environment Center (SEC) in Boulder , Colo. , have observed all types of space weather: radio blackouts, solar radiation storms, and geomagnetic storms. Currently, space weather forecasters are observing a moderate (G-2) geomagnetic storm and a minor (S-1) solar radiation […]

VT HALTER MARINE TO BUILD A THIRD FISHERIES SURVEY VESSEL FOR NOAA VT Halter Marine, Inc., a subsidiary of Vision Technologies Systems, Inc., announced that it will build another Fisheries Survey Vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA exercised its option for the third of four planned vessels under an existing contract. This […]

NOAA INTRODUCES NOWCOAST WEB MAPPING PORTALWeb Site Combines Information for Easier Accessibility In a continuing effort to improve maritime safety and commerce and to monitor physical changes in weather, oceanographic and river conditions, NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, introduces nowCOAST. nowCOAST is a Web mapping portal providing the coastal community with real-time coastal […]

Corps and Coast Guard work cooperatively to address shoaled inlets      WILMINGTON, NC – The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, is working closely with the United States Coast Guard as the Coast Guard plans to remove entire buoy systems from four dangerously shoaled inlets along the North Carolina Coast. These inlets are Lockwoods Folly […]

Long Distance Movements of Atlantic Sharks from the NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program* by J.G. Casey and N.E. Kohler *In: Discovering Sharks. 1990. S.H. Gruber ed. American Littoral Society, Highlands, N.J. pp.87-90. In 1962, the U.S. Government initiated a shark tagging program in the Atlantic Ocean with the volunteer assistance of sport and commercial fishermen. […]

AS WINTER GRIPS MOST OF THE NATION, THERE’S PLENTY OF SPACE WEATHER, TOO Jan 19, 2005 — For the past five days, forecasters at the NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., have observed all types of space weather: radio blackouts, solar radiation storms and geomagnetic storms. Currently, space weather forecasters are observing a moderate […]

NOAA’S NEW SHIP TARGETS PATH-FINDING OCEAN EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH Jan 18, 2005 — A new NOAA ship will go boldly on a mission to further explore the world’s oceans. “We want NOAA’s newly converted ship to become the international symbol vessel for ocean exploration and research,” said Stephen Hammond, acting director of the NOAA Office […]

U.S. ANNOUNCES PLAN FOR AN IMPROVED TSUNAMI DETECTION AND WARNING SYSTEM Jan 14, 2005 — Plans were announced today to expand the U.S. tsunami detection and warning capabilities as a contribution of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS—the international effort to develop a comprehensive, sustained and integrated Earth observation system. The plan […]

Artificial Reefs Providing New Habitat for Fish Staff members from NOAA Fisheries and NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuaries have been working with the Navy and the U.S. Maritime Administration to help the states procure and prepare former naval ships for use as artificial reefs. Almost every state on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts has prepared a […]