Welcome to NOAA Podcasts
These are short reports on NOAA science and research. They are in mp3 files for easy downloads to desktop and laptops, as well as mobile devices capable of playing these files. You also can listen to these programs by simply clicking on the link.
2009 Podcasts
- Making Waves (Episode 35) [September 16, 2009] Battle of the Atlantic Expedition; New Gulf Marine Sanctuary Report — (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Maritime Heritage [September 9, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 34) [September 2, 2009] High-Water Mystery; nowCOAST; Wetlands Restoration — (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 33) [August 19, 2009] We head north to Kachemak Bay, Alaska, for Hydropalooza 2009 — (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Currents [August 12, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 32) [August 5, 2009] Gulf Dead Zone size measured; NOAA funding helps manage New England Red Tide — (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Land Cover Data [July 29, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 31) [July 22, 2009] High school students participate in Ocean for Life, a new program that aims to teach students from around the world about research, conservation, and stewardship to address issues facing ocean health — (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Hydrography [July 15, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 30) [July 8, 2009] Preparing for the arctic future; National Geodetic Survey positioning activities worth billions — (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Dead Zone [July 7, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 29) [June 24, 2009] Travel north of Baltimore to Otter Point Creek to join up with scores of NOAA volunteers gathered for NOAA Restoration Day (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: PCBs [June 17, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 28) [June 10, 2009] A talk with environmental marine life artist Wyland about a new campaign to inspire kids with art and science (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Resilience [June 3, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 27) [May 27, 2009] Examine the many roles and activities of the National Ocean Service when hurricanes threaten our coasts (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Geodesy [May 20, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 26) [May 13, 2009] New PORTS Station Opens in Lake Charles, Louisiana (Transcript)
- That Weather Show: VORTEX2 [May 12, 2009] Lots of information about the ground-breaking tornado research project (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: National Marine Sanctuaries [May 6, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 25) [April 29, 2009] Learn about EstuaryLive, an annual event that enables students to take a virtual field trip to estuaries around the country (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Estuaries [April 22, 2009] (Transcript)
- That Weather Show: Remembering May 3, 1999 [April 20, 2009] A 10-year retrospective of the May 3, 1999, tornado outbreaks (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 24) [April 15, 2009] Learn about Bay Hydro II, the newest addition to NOAA's fleet of hydrographic research vessels. Also learn about a new NOAA-led study that finds a type of tropical fungus now infecting bottlenose dolphins (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Tides [April 8, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 23) [April 8, 2009] Undergraduate students from Rutgers University are finalizing preparations to launch an ocean glider on a journey from New Jersey to Spain (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 22) [April 1, 2009] Flame Retardants Found in U.S. Coastal Ecosystems Nationwide (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 21) [March 23, 2009] Caribbean Research Cruise - new online game for kids (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Nautical Charts [March 23, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 20) [March 13, 2009] An Exxon Valdez 20th Anniversary Special (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Integrated Ocean Observing System [March 9, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 19) [March 6, 2009] A new study partly funded by NOAA reveals what happened to hundreds of birds found stranded or dead in California’s Monterey Bay (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 18) [February 27, 2009] An early 20th century shipwreck located in a NOAA National Marine Sanctuary is added to the National Register of Historic Places. And the National Geodetic Survey celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Continuously Operating Reference Station program (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Marine Debris [February 23, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 17) [February 20, 2009] NOAA’s role in the recent U.S. Airways airplane crash on the Hudson River near Manhattan. Learn why experts from NOAA, California, Oregon, and Washington State met to discuss harmful algal blooms, more commonly known as 'red tides' (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 16) [February 13, 2009] Antibiotic resistance in the marine environment and potential new cures from the sea. Three new studies presented at a NOAA-sponsored symposium at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Marine Protected Areas [February 9, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 15) [February 6, 2009] Using Google Earth, explore the depths of the ocean and discover NOAA information and images along their journey; using ocean observations from satellites to predict the outbreak of cholera (Transcript)
- NOAA Dives into Ocean in Google Earth [February 2, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 14) [January 30, 2009] Effects of and solutions for sea-level rise on coastal areas. And the first reported invasive lionfish is captured in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper [January 26, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 13) [January 23, 2009] Preview a new NOS podcast premiering on Jan. 26 called Diving Deeper. The new audio podcast will broadcast once every two weeks and feature interviews with NOS scientists and experts (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 12) [January 16, 2009] New director of the National Geodetic Survey and new features on NOS Web site (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 11) [January 9, 2009] A restoration plan for shoreline and habitats of the Delaware River damaged by a 2004 oil spill. Find out why NOS researchers are studying lobster trap debris in the Florida Keys (Transcript)
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