Welcome to the NOAA Podcast Archive

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.

2008 Podcasts

Making Waves (Episode 10) [December 31, 2008] A Year in Review (Transcript)
Making Waves (Episode 9) [December 23, 2008] How does the National Ocean Service help Santa on his journey around the country? (Transcript)
Making Waves (Episode 8, [December 19, 2008] New study leads to better understanding of ocean acidification (Transcript)
Making Waves (Episode 7) [December 11, 2008] Toxins from red tides are showing up in bottlenose dolphins in higher-than-expected amounts; cross coral jewelry off of your shopping list (Transcript)
Making Waves (Episode 6) [December 5, 2008] A new national system of marine protected areas; look at what three marine sanctuaries (Transcript)
Making Waves (Episode 5) [November 28, 2008] Learn what the National Ocean Service have to do with your Thanksgiving dinner (Transcript)
Making Waves (Episode 4) [November 21, 2008] NOS Participates in First Coastal Cities Summit; New England red tide; NOS Marine Forensics Program (Transcript)
Making Waves (Episode 3) [November 14, 2008] A recent expedition to map an unknown sea floor in the Arctic; Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary; a new digital map of underwater vegetation in the Coastal Bend region near Corpus Christi (Transcript)
Making Waves (Episode 2) [November 7, 2008] NOAA's role in the EcoZone® Green Schools; NOS Office of Response and Restoration; National Geodetic Survey revolutionizes the measurement of height (Transcript)
Making Waves (Episode 1), a weekly audio program from NOAA's National Ocean Service [October 31, 2008] Research on the use of sonar to track threatened sea turtles; NOAA's new Ocean Today Kiosk; recent upgrades to the space-based global coral bleaching monitoring network; things reef managers and scientists can do to protect a reef when the ocean overheats (Transcript)
Environmental Teaching Activity [August 15, 2008] (Transcript)
That Weather Show: Career Options for Meteorology Graduates [October 9, 2008] A conversation with meteorology professionals, about their job duties and other fields of meteorology graduates can consider (Transcript)
That Weather Show: Pursuing a Degree in Meteorology [September 17, 2008] A conversation with current and recently-graduated meteorology students, about what it’s like to pursue a degree in meteorology (Transcript)
That Weather Show: 2008 - Record-Setting Tornado Season? [June 16, 2008] An early start to the tornado season may be responsible for a record number of tornadoes, and nearly double the fatalities from January to mid-June (Transcript)
That Weather Show: Flash Flood Safety in a Car [April 30, 2008] More than half of all people killed in floods are those in vehicles (Transcript)
That Weather Show: Tornado Safety in a Car [April 30, 2008] If you’re driving on the road and see a tornado or hear a tornado warning over the radio for your location, you need to seek shelter immediately (Transcript)
That Weather Show: Tornado Safety at Home [April 30, 2008] No matter where you are when a tornado approaches, the thing to remember is to take cover (Transcript)
That Weather Show: Flash Flood Safety at Home [March 28, 2008] If you live in a low-lying area or near a river, stream, or dam then you need to be prepared to evacuate quickly (Transcript)
That Weather Show: Storm Spotting [March 10, 2008] Learn how trained storm spotters help during severe weather {Transcript)

2007 Podcasts

Radar Research [November 8, 2007] (Transcript)
Improving Forecasts of Severe Storms [November 8, 2007] (Transcript)
Estimating Precipitation and Improving Flash Flood Forecasting with Radar [November 8, 2007] (Transcript)
Tornado Research [November 8, 2007] (Transcript)
Climate and Hydrologic Research [July 18, 2007] (Transcript)
Global Warming, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [July 18, 2007] (Transcript)
The Challenges of Modeling Climate Change and Variability [July 18, 2007] (Transcript)
The GFDL Hurricane Model [July 18, 2007] (Transcript)
The Interaction of Oceans and Climate [July 17, 2007] (Transcript)
Research in NOAA [June 22, 2007] (Transcript)
Narwhal Whales as Oceanographers: Mission to Greenland [April 19, 2007] (Full Story)
Researchers Find Global Positioning System Is Significantly Impacted by Powerful Solar Radio Burst [April 6, 2007] (Full Story)

2006 Podcasts

NOAA Reports 2006 Marked by Severe Heat Waves, Widespread Drought, Wildfires [December 15, 2006] (Full Story)
NOAA on Hurricane Katrina—One Year Later [August 30, 2006] (Full Story)
NOAA on Ozone Hole Discovery 20 Years Ago [August 24, 2006] (Full Story)
NOAA Observes 20th Anniversary of Ozone Hole 'Success Story' [August 23, 2006] (Full Story)
Environmental Teaching Activity [August 15, 2008] (Transcript)
NOAA Continues to Predict Above-normal Hurricane Season [August 9, 2006] (Full Story)
NOAA Researcher Joins with Astronauts to Test Moon Exploration Concepts on the Seafloor [August 5, 2006] (Full Story)
NOAA Predicts Very Active 2006 North Atlantic Hurricane Season [May 23, 2006] (Full Story)
Flood Safety Awareness—Flooding is a coast to coast threat to the United States and its territories in all months of the year. [March 29, 2006] (Full Story)
Galapagos Spreading Center: Exploring Undersea Volcanoes [January 31, 2006] (Full Story)
Norfolk, Va., First East Coast City Declared TsunamiReady [January 24, 2006] (Full Story)

2005 Podcasts

NOAA Organizes Rescue Team to Disentangle North Atlantic Right Whale [December 8, 2005] (Full Story)
2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season and Global Earth Observing System of Systems, or GEOSS [December 6, 2005]
Atlantic Hurricane Season 2005 and Beyond [November 30, 2005] (Full story.)
NOAA Reviews Record-setting 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season; Active Hurricane Era Likely to Continue [November 29, 2005] (Full story.)
NOAA Hurricane Podcast for Aug. 2, 2005, on the busy Atlantic hurricane season. (Full story.)
NOAA on Open Ocean Aquaculture Legislation. (Full Story)

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