Why is the North Pacific warming so fast?
New research describes one of the processes driving the North Pacific’s trajectory into uncharted waters.
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Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
The Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory at 50
Special issue of Oceanography explores the lab’s history and accomplishments Fifty years ago, NOAA created a new environmental research laboratory in Seattle with an initial
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New system uses seawater to capture and store CO2
“The knowledge gained from this research will inform decision makers and stakeholders regarding potential future approaches to marine carbon dioxide removal in our oceans and lakes. We will need many mitigation tools to build a climate-ready future.”
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New Story Map Highlights the Importance of NOAA Long-term Observations in the Bering Sea
The Pivotal Recovery Story Map ESRI recounts the events in 2021 of how NOAA scientists raced against nature to save their most valuable scientific instruments
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How will climate change change El Niño and La Niña?
A new book published by the American Geophysical Union provides first detailed examination of how climate change may influence El Niño and La Niña.
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Mapping, listening at the bottom of the sea
Barely had the ink dried on the partnership agreement signed by NOAA and ocean explorer Victor Vescovo, owner of Caladan Oceanic LLC, when his team headed out to the Pacific Ocean to dive and map the Mariana Trench, and answer the questions — how deep and where exactly is the bottom of the ocean.
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Mapping, listening at the bottom of the sea
NOAA partner collects quarry of deep ocean sound and mapping data Barely had the ink dried on the partnership agreement signed by NOAA and ocean explorer Victor
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Dungeness crab larvae already showing effects of coastal acidification
A new NOAA-funded study has documented for the first time that ocean acidification along the US Pacific Northwest coast is impacting the shells and sensory
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NOAA teams up with Viking to conduct and share science aboard new Great Lakes expedition voyages
NOAA plans to expand its research in the Great Lakes region as the agency teams up with the travel company Viking to carry scientists aboard new expedition voyages planned to begin in 2022.
Sarah Purkey
Mining the Deep Ocean for Climate Clues The deep ocean, one of the most mysterious places on Earth, is an integral if unseen part of