Understanding, protecting, and sustainably managing ocean habitats and services are essential to a healthy society. Learning more about the ocean’s influence on climate is key […]
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Capitol Hill Ocean Week is taking place June 7-9, 2022, in Washington, DC, and online. This year’s theme, “Sea: The Future,” celebrates the 50 years
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Join Acting OAR Assistant Administrator Cisco Werner and NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad for conversations on advancing the All-Atlantic Alliance, bringing the research community together with
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Scientists are coming together to improve collaboration and inclusivity across the ocean science community at the 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting OSM. Taking place February 24
Editor's note: If you missed the live event. Have no fear. You can watch the program on NOAA Ocean Exploration on YouTube
On Wednesday, May 5, at 7 p.m. EDT/4 p.m. PDT, join explorers from an upcoming NOAA Ocean Exploration expedition to hear about innovative technologies NOAA and its partners are developing to advance exploration. Learn how the navigation technology used on NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars helicopter is being adapted for use on an autonomous underwater vehicle in Earth’s deep ocean and how environmental DNA can be used to learn more about the animals that live there.
Sep 23-27: GFDL Director, Dr. Ramaswamy, will travel to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, to talk at the Global Water Future Conference.
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September 26-27: CPO Director Dr. Wayne Higgins will be attending the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Council Fall 2019 Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Higgins has been appointed to serve as Councilor to AMS from January 2019 to January 2022. The Council is the principal governing body of the Society consisting of the elective officers, the last two Past-Presidents, and 15 other voting members of the Society, each elected for a three-year term. Key items on the agenda include finalizing the 2020 proposed budget, awards oversight, and approving AMS statements on Data Management, and the Energy Sector and Earth Observations.
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On October 8, CPO's National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) will host a meeting in Portland, Oregon bringing together NIDIS Pacific Northwest (PNW) Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) stakeholders and partners. Participants will discuss progress on PNW DEWS Strategic Plan and learn about regional, state, and tribal partners activities to improve drought early warning, monitoring, and preparedness . The meeting’s major outcome will be an update to the PNW DEWS Regional Implementation Plan (formerly known as Strategic Plan) to help advance organized and enhanced drought services in the Pacific Northwest.
On September 25-26, CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate, and Carbon Cycle (AC4) Program, in partnership with NSF, is supporting a workshop on Air Quality in the Western U.S. (AQUARIUS) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Particulate matter, especially PM2.5 which is harmful to human health, has generally decreased in recent years throughout the U.S., thanks to regulatory policies. However, several western U.S. basins have not seen improvement in wintertime particulate matter concentrations. This suggests there is a gap in understanding how the lower part of our atmosphere and complex chemical processes interact, especially in mountain valleys that often trap polluted air, to produce elevated particulate matter conditions. To improve understanding of these unique regions and processes, AQUARIUS will focus on a future aircraft campaign in the winter of 2021/2022 to investigate wintertime particulate matter in populated mountain basins of the western U.S. Hosted by the University of Utah, the workshop will bring together scientists from NOAA/ESRL and from across the external community.
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On October 1st, the Climate Program Office is expecting to announce $22.8 million in competitive awards to support 62 new projects. The diverse set of new projects ranges from explaining long-term trends in atmospheric composition to supporting resilient fishing communities. Universities and other research institutions spread across 31 states, alongside other federal agencies in close collaboration with NOAA, will conduct the projects over the next 1-3 years. Selected in an open, competitive peer-review process, anticipated project outcomes include improved projections of 21st century climate, enhanced capacity of fishing communities to assess climate-driven socio-economic risks and impacts, a better understanding of trends in our long-term observational records, and increased resilience to extreme events. These projects all significantly extend NOAA’s climate research and engage the broad research community with issues at the crux of NOAA’s mission.
