SEARCH FOR OVERDUE VESSEL SUSPENDED PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The search for an overdue vessel that began Monday evening in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea was suspended this morning by the Coast Guard. Beatty F. Thompson, 85, of George Town, Cayman Islands, and Bensley O. Scott, age and hometown unknown, left Pensacola, Fla., […]
NOAA AWARDS $275,000 TO TROUT UNLIMITED The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a $275,000 grant to Trout Unlimited as part of a multi-project cooperative partnership to restore coastal and river fisheries habitat throughout the coastal United States. NOAA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The grant supports a three-year partnership between […]
NOAA CHIEF LEADS 100 VOLUNTEERS IN RESTORING TIDAL WETLANDS OF FORT MCHENRY ON SATURDAY The director of the nation’s top science agency for oceans and the atmosphere, Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., will lead 100 volunteers from the Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the annual tidal wetland restoration at historic Fort McHenry in […]
NOAA TEACHER AT SEA PROGRAM RELEASES ITS FIRST CHILDREN’S BOOK April 8, 2005  The NOAA Teacher at Sea program unveiled its first children’s book at the National Science Teachers Association conference in Dallas, Texas, where coauthors-teachers Mary Cook and Diane Stanitski and NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown Chief Boatswain-illustrator Bruce Cowden signed books by […]
NOAA OFFERS HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS AND STUDENTS NEW EDUCATIONAL KIT ON ESTUARY SCIENCE A new online educational product, the fourth in a series of “Discovery Kits” developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Ocean Service, is now available on the Web for students and teachers. This latest kit explains the science of estuaries […]
COAST GUARD TO REMOVE BUOYS IN BOGUE INLET PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard is scheduled to remove the navigational buoys from Bogue Inlet by April 20 because the inlet has become too shallow for buoy tenders to safely operate. The movement of sand and sediment has decreased the water depth in the inlet, and […]
LOCAL CUTTER RETURNS HOME PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard Cutter Tampa is scheduled to return today at 5:30 p.m. following a 42-day patrol in the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti. During the patrol, Tampa crewmembers performed many of the Coast Guard’s missions, including drug interdiction, search and rescue, as well as verifying safety […]
The Conservation Fund and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announce theAcquisition of 6,000 Acres for Catahoula National Wildlife RefugeLouisiana Wildlife, Sportsmen To Benefit From Wal-Mart Acres for AmericaProgramAlexandria, LA (April 12, 2005) – The Conservation Fund and a coalition ofpublic and private partners announced today the acquisition of more than6,000 acres for the Catahoula National […]
LOCAL COAST GUARD UNIT COORDINATES SEARCH ACROSS SOUTHERN WATERS PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Portsmouth-based Coast Guard unit is coordinating search efforts for an overdue vessel in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) Norfolk was notified Monday night of the overdue 38-foot sport fisher with two men aboard, which departed Pensacola, […]
LOCAL CUTTER RETURNS HOME PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard Cutter Tampa is scheduled to return today at 5:30 p.m. following a 42-day patrol in the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti. During the patrol, Tampa crewmembers performed many of the Coast Guard’s missions, including drug interdiction, search and rescue, as well as verifying safety […]
