Category: MS

NOAA ANNOUNCES NATIONAL STUDENT CONTEST TO VISIT UNDERSEA LAB AQUARIUS IN FLORIDA Young divers wanting to visit NOAA’s undersea laboratory/habitat Aquarius can enter a writing contest for the opportunity to visit this one-of-a-kind facility in the Florida Keys. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. “Aquarius […]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Steve Williams Receives Receives Outdoor Life Magazine’s Conservation Award for Public Service Outdoor Life magazine is awarding Director Steve Williams its prestigious Conservation Award for Public Service for his leadership in strengthening the long-standing conservation partnership between America’s sportsmen and women and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The […]

NOAA FISHERIES PROPOSES POUND NET REGULATIONS TO PROTECT SEA TURTLES IN THE VIRGINIA CHESAPEAKE BAY The National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) is proposing mandatory changes to pound nets used in parts of Virginia Chesapeake Bay during the time of year when hundreds of threatened and endangered sea turtles – known to become entangled in […]

  NOAA WEB SITE LETS YOU EXPLORE UNDERSEA VENTS ON SUBMARINE RING OF FIREInteractive Site Combines Discovery, Science and Computer Animation Ocean science researchers and explorers have been on NOAA’s voyage of discovery to the deep-ocean hydrothermal vents of Magic Mountain – and now you can join them virtually with just a few clicks on […]

  NOAA RESPONDS TO OIL SPILL IN MISSISSIPPI RIVERFreighter Collides with Tanker Near New Orleans The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is dispatching a team of scientists from its Office of Response and Restoration to a fuel oil spill that occurred last night on the Mississippi River approximately eleven miles west […]

Brunswick, Zodiac Drop Suit A lawsuit filed by Zodiac and its affiliated companies against Brunswick Corporation will be dismissed, according to an agreement reached last week by the two companies. Last summer, Zodiac of North America Inc., Zodiac International and its AVON Inflatables Ltd. Subsidiary filed a lawsuit against Brunswick Corporation that alleged Brunswick’s Amanzi […]

NOAA REPORTS NORTHEASTERN U.S. COLDER-THAN-AVERAGE IN JANUARYREST OF COUNTRY CLOSER TO NORMAL TEMPERATURES States from the Carolinas to the Northeast and Midwest were colder than average in January, while temperatures were closer to normal in much of the rest of the country, according to scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic […]

NOAA SEEKS FEEDBACK FROM GOES SATELLITE DATA USERS The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will hold a conference for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) data users May 10-13 in Broomfield, Colo. The meeting will provide users with the status of the future GOES-R satellite constellation instruments and operations. NOAA is an agency of the […]

NOAA FISHERIES PREPARES FOR BUYBACK BIDDINGThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) announced today the opening of bidding in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Island crab buyback. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The bidding opens on March 5, 2004. […]

Restoration Continues at Grounding SiteRestoration activities continue at the Adaro grounding site in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The Adaro, a 68-ft sport fishing vessel, went hard aground at Grecian Rocks reef in August 2003, creating twin trenches across the reef crest. The restoration work consists primarily of backfilling the trenches with a combination […]