Category: NC

CLIMATE, WATER & WEATHER DIVISION CHIEF APPOINTED DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL WE

CLIMATE, WATER & WEATHER DIVISION CHIEF APPOINTED DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTHERN REGION Veteran meteorologist Steven Cooper has been appointed deputy director of the National Weather Service (NWS) Southern Region – serving 10 southern states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Prior to his appointment, Cooper served as chief […]

NOAA RELEASES NEW MANUAL ON COASTAL HABITAT RESTORATION MONITORING

NOAA RELEASES NEW MANUAL ON COASTAL HABITAT RESTORATION MONITORING For the first time, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has compiled key restoration monitoring information applicable to coastal habitats nationwide. Science-Based Restoration Monitoring of Coastal Habitats, Volume One: A Framework for Monitoring Plans Under the Estuaries and Clean Waters Act of 2000 (Public Law […]

NEW RESEARCH OF NOAA DATA

NEW RESEARCH OF NOAA DATAUSES METABOLIC RATES TO HELP DETERMINE THE HEALTH OF ESTUARIES New research using monitoring data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Estuarine Research Reserves examines metabolic rates as indicators of the health of estuaries. This is the largest and most geographically diverse study of its kind and is […]

LEE III VICTIMS RECOVERED; SALVAGE OPERATIONS CONTINUE

LEE III VICTIMS RECOVERED; SALVAGE OPERATIONS CONTINUE NEW ORLEANS – Two victims from the capsized Lee III have been recovered from the vessel position on the east bank of the Mississippi River’s Southwest Pass and positively identified today. Recovered are: Baldemar Villarreal, Jr., 54, of Lake Jackson, Texas, and Joseph Harl Brown, 44, of Mobile, […]

Governmental Advisory

Governmental Advisory UPDATE Mystery Sheen – Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway North Carolina Intracoastal Waterway – An oily sheen was reported by an Air Force pilot to Marine Safety Team, Elizabeth City at approximately 10:00 am, Tuesday the 24th. The sheen was spotted within the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW) extending southward 19 miles from the southern tip […]

NOAA REPORTS ABOVE-NORMAL ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON

NOAA REPORTS ABOVE-NORMAL ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON Dec. 1, 2003 — With the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season having officially ended Nov. 30, NOAA hurricane specialists said the above-normal 2003 Atlantic hurricane season produced 14 tropical storms, of which 7 became hurricanes and 3 became major hurricanes (Fabian, Isabel and Kate). Six of the named systems affected […]

MARINE FISHERIES OFFICE MOVES BACK TO WANCHESE

MARINE FISHERIES OFFICE MOVES BACK TO WANCHESE MOREHEAD CITY – Who says you can’t go home again? Staff from the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) are excited to be moving back to their old digs at 604 Harbor Drive in the Industrial Seafood Park in Wanchese. The office will be open for business […]

MYSTERY SHEEN – ATLANTIC INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY

MYSTERY SHEEN – ATLANTIC INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY WILMINGTON, N.C. — Coast Guard units in North Carolina are responding to a spill reported Tuesday around 10 a.m. in the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW). An HH-60 helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., investigated the initial report and verified an undetermined amount of an oily substance […]

COAST GUARD REOPENS SOUTHWEST PASS OF MISS. RIVER

COAST GUARD REOPENS SOUTHWEST PASS OF MISS. RIVER NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Coast Guard reopend the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River at 1 p.m. today to one-way maritime traffic. All vessel movement through the Southwest Pass must be coordinated through the U.S. Coast Guard’s Vessel Traffic Center in New Orleans. The Coast Guard […]

LEE III REMOVED FROM SOUTHWEST PASS, RIVER REMAINS CLOSED

LEE III REMOVED FROM SOUTHWEST PASS, RIVER REMAINS CLOSED NEW ORLEANS – Salvage workers have moved the offshore supply vessel Lee III from the Southwest Pass, however the Southwest Pass remains closed to maritime traffic. The Lee III, though out of the channel, has not yet been stabilized. The Army Corps of Engineers must complete […]