April 15, 2010 The world’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made last month the warmest March on record, according to NOAA. Taken separately, average ocean temperatures were the warmest for any March and the global land surface was the …
Public and Media Invited to Tour Hurricane Hunter Aircraft April 20, 2010 More than 2,000 people visited the NOAA P3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft during its visit to Raleigh, NC, in 2009. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) NOAA hurricane experts will visit five …
March 30, 2010 NOAA’s National Marine Protected Areas Center has created a new interactive online mapping tool that, for the first time, allows users to view boundaries and access data for more than a thousand marine protected areas (MPAs) in the United …
April 6, 2010 NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson, one of the most technologically advanced hydrographic survey vessels in the world, will depart its Norfolk, Va. homeport on April 6 to conduct a five-month long effort to map the seafloor and look for hazards to …
April 8, 2010 NOAA’s State of the Climate report shows the March 2010 average temperature for the entire contiguous United States was warmer-than-average with several New England states experiencing one of the warmest March’s on record. Average …
April 22, 2010 Commerce Department Principal Deputy Under Secretary and U.S. Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission, Monica Medina, today released the following statement about the IWC Chair’s proposal for the Future of the IWC: “The United …
April 27, 2010 GOES-15 – took its first full-disk infrared image of the Earth on April 26 at 17:30 UTC (1:30 p.m. EDT). Clouds associated with the low pressure areas over the Ohio Valley and southern Minnesota and the cold front coming into the Pacific …
May 11, 2010 NOAA is sending one of its top fisheries science directors to the Gulf this week to lead its effort to rapidly assess, test and report findings about risks posed to fish in the Gulf of Mexico by contaminants from the BP oil spill and clean-up …
Also Warmest January-April May 17, 2010 The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for both April and for the period from January-April, according to NOAA. Additionally, last month’s average ocean surface temperature …
April 30, 2010 Humpback whales are protected by the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act, but also are found outside of U.S. waters. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) NOAA is requesting public comment on options for implementing parts of the Marine Mammal …
May 4, 2010 NOAA’s Aquarius, the world’s only permanent underwater laboratory, will host a new team of “aquanauts” in support of NASA’s Extreme Environment Mission Operations mission. This is the 14th such mission since 2001. The May 10-23 mission will be …
May 7, 2010 NOAA’s State of the Climate report shows the April 2010 average temperature for the contiguous United States was 54.3 degrees F, which is 2.3 degrees F above the long-term (1901-2000) average (14th warmest April on record). April’s average …
May 10, 2010 Four fisheries stocks, including Atlantic swordfish, have now been rebuilt to healthy levels, according to a report to Congress from NOAA’s Fisheries Service issued today. Three stocks were removed from the overfishing list – those fished at a …
May 27, 2010 An “active to extremely active” hurricane season is expected for the Atlantic Basin this year according to the seasonal outlook issued today by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center – a division of the National Weather Service. As with every …
May 21, 2010 New NOAA PORTS system allows mariners to get free real-time oceanic and atmospheric data from numerous sensors at various points along the Sabine-Neches waterway. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) Mariners can now get free real-time information …
May 19, 2010 John Lyman (left) holds an expendable bathythermograph or XBT, a device that was dropped from ships to obtain temperature. Gregory Johnson (right) holds an Argo Float, an autonomous, free-floating ocean device that collects a variety of data, …
Data of unaffected waters is critical to measuring ecological impact of Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill May 24, 2010 In response to the Deepwater BP oil spill, NOAA’s Mussel Watch program has mobilized three teams of scientists to test shellfish, sediment …
May 25, 2010 A newly repositioned NOAA satellite is broadening the coverage of the Western Hemisphere, especially over South America. This coverage will supply forecasters in South America with more imagery and data to track dangerous storms – including …
Approximately 68 Percent of Gulf Still Open for Fishing June 1, 2010 Fishery Closure Boundary as of June 1, 2010. Closure area may be updated daily as necessary. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) NOAA has extended the northern and southern boundaries of the …
NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson dispatched to deploy special instruments May 26, 2010 Personnel aboard the NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson prepare to launch a Naval Oceanographic Office glider as part of a Gulf of Mexico Loop Current research cruise. High resolution …
