No ice to break No ice to break Dispatches from the Arctic Editor’s note: This is the second dispatch from Jeremy Mathis, director of NOAA’s Arctic Research Program, who is leading a team of NOAA scientists on a research cruise in the Arctic. Read more
Why We Go North Why We Go North Dispatches from the Arctic This blog post by Jeremy Mathis, director of NOAA's Arctic Research Program, is the first in a series of posts from NOAA scientists aboard US Coast Guard Cutter Healy who are measuring Arctic environmental change. Read more
NOAA scientists set sail on Coast Guard icebreaker to measure change in the Arctic NOAA scientists set sail on Coast Guard icebreaker to measure change in the Arctic On Friday, August 25, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy will sail from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, with a team of NOAA scientists and collaborators on a 22-day cruise to study environmental change in the western Arctic Ocean. Read more
Sailing drone captures dawn while crossing the Bering Strait Sailing drone captures dawn while crossing the Bering Strait Unmanned vehicles cruise into Arctic for voyage of data collection In the early hours of August 1, one of two remotely operated unmanned sailing vehicles snapped this dreamy photo as it sailed through the choppy Bering Strait, bound for a voyage of data collection. In the distance are the islands of Little Diomede in the United States and Big Diomede in Russia. Read more
Summer of sailing drones Summer of sailing drones Unmanned ocean vehicles are collecting data from the Arctic to the tropics Over the next four months, NOAA scientists will launch unmanned ocean vehicles, called Saildrones, from the Arctic to the tropical Pacific Ocean to help better understand how changes in the ocean are affecting weather, climate, fisheries and marine mammals. The wind and solar-powered research vehicles that resemble a sailboat will travel thousands of miles across the ocean, reaching some areas never before surveyed with such specialized technology. Read more
As the North Slope of Alaska warms, greenhouse gases have nowhere to go but up As the North Slope of Alaska warms, greenhouse gases have nowhere to go but up The amount of carbon dioxide being released from tundra in the northern region of Alaska during early winter has increased 70 percent since 1975, according to new research funded by NOAA and NASA. Read more
A Message from Craig McLean: Hurricane Dorian and Exceptional Service 10Sep2019 Read more NOAA Research Assistant Administrator Craig McLean's message to colleagues, dated Monday, September 9th, regarding Hurricane Dorian and its wide-ranging impacts Read more
A Year Locked in Ice 20Sep2019 Read more An expedition to the central Arctic will give scientists the first opportunity to study the dramatic changes sweeping across the top of the world for an entire year. Read more
New NOAA app brings earth and space animations to your phone 2Aug2019 Read more NOAA's SOS Explorer Mobile, an app for personal mobile devices, tells earth science stories by playing visually stunning movies on a virtual globe. Read more
Old weather “time machine” opens a treasure trove for researchers 9Oct2019 Read more https://cires.colorado.edu/A NOAA-funded research team ha published an update the 20th Century Reanalysis Project, a dauntingly complex, high-resolution, four-dimensional reconstruction of the global climate that estimates what the weather was for every day back to 1836. Read more
NOAA is developing underwater robots to map, measure toxicity of Great Lakes algal blooms 14Aug2019 Read more Two underwater robots will be gliding throughout the western Lake Erie basin this week, as NOAA and its partners at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) test technology to autonomously monitor and measure the toxicity of harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes. Read more