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Illustration of the NOAA ELP Vision of A Resilient Community depicting a city along a coast and river with the following depicted: trees being planted as urban heat island abatement; an aquarium with people restoring a nearby coastal wetland to mitigate flooding; sustainable design with green infrastructure; a healthy community with people biking and exercising outside; a city hall with youth and adults presenting their ideas to officials; a shoreline that is protected with restored oyster reefs; students on a boat mapping coastal resilience assets; community members engaging in citizen science; a house adapted to severe storms, flooding, and rising sea levels; people preparing their community for a flood; K-12 schools where teachers and students are creating a rain garden; a university where researchers study resilience solutions; and a science center where youth have convened a climate summit. The NOAA logo is in the top right corner of the illustration. (NOAA Office of Education & Jessica B. Bartram, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
'A buoy of hope’: How NOAA helped aquariums come together to stay afloat during the pandemic
A masked family at an aquarium looks at something off-camera, standing in back of a sign that reads, “Thank you for staying one sea lion from others (2 m or 6 ft).” (Vancouver Aquarium)
A landscape photo looking out onto a bay at high tide in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Cages for oyster farming can be seen just below the water with green seaweed growing on them. (Brianna Shaughnessy/NOAA Office of Education)
"Hurricane Simulation" WebApp Courtesy of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS). Copyright 2013 by Tom Whittaker at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies)
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Dan Ward, owner of Ward Aquafarms in Massachusetts, helps educators gather photos and video to help educate 7-11 year-olds in Colorado about oyster farming. (Brianna Shaughnessy, NOAA Office of Education)
Four women from NOAA were recognized at the annual Women of Color in STEM conference, which was held virtually October 8-10, 2020. These awards highlight significant achievements in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Top row, left to right: Dr. Jeanette Davis, Jennifer Dickens. Bottom row, left to right: Cindy Woods, Melissa Hooper. (NOAA)
A landscape photo looking out onto a bay at high tide in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Cages for oyster farming can be seen just below the water with green seaweed growing on them. (Brianna Shaughnessy/NOAA Office of Education)
A U.S map plotted with the dates and locations of NOAA Virtual Open House live, guided tours taking place in March. For text details, please see listing below in our web story. (NOAA Heritage)
“Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola)” by Chan P.Y., Grade 12, is a winner of the Marine Art Contest 2019. Winning art is posted on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary website. (Chan P.Y.)
Litter such as plastic detergent bottles, crates, buoys, combs, and water bottles blanket Kanapou Bay, on the Island of Kaho’olawe in Hawaii. This region is a hot-spot for marine debris accumulation. (NOAA)
Head of NOAA’s Office of Civil Rights honored at Black Engineer of the Year Awards
Kenneth M. Bailey is the Director of the Office of Inclusion and Civil Rights, which is part of NOAA’s Civil Rights Office. He received the Dave Barclay Affirmative Action in Government Award at the 2021 Black Engineer of the Year Awards. The quote reads, "NOAA has the best mission ... and I love doing my job here with my team and colleagues." (Courtesy of Kenneth Bailey, Office of Inclusion and Civil Rights)
Female green crab with eggs in Pipestem Inlet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Green crab have since moved into northern British Columbia. (NOAA Fisheries)
Undaria pinnatifida, also known as Asian kelp or wakame. This invasive species has colonized many harbors along the California coastline, including in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. (Chad King/NOAA)
A U.S map plotted with the dates and locations of NOAA Virtual Open House live, guided tours taking place in March. For text details, please see listing below in our web story. (NOAA Heritage)
Carmen, a Magellanic penguin, and Kayavak, a Beluga whale greet each other during Shedd Aquarium's temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.(Shedd Aquarium)
Danbury 6th grade students team up to begin their beach scavenger hunt at Long Island Sound from Milford Point, Connecticut, as part of EdAdvance’s New England B-WET project. (EdAdvance)
NOAA's Community Resilience Education Theory of Change
Theory of Change community illustration, which includes lush greenery, people playing and conversing outside, and community buildings and houses. (NOAA Office of Education)
Maria Mitchell, Rear Admiral Evelyn J. Fields (ret.), Marie Tharp, Pamela Chelgren-Koterba, and Dr. Nancy Foster are five notable women who worked in ocean science at NOAA. (NOAA/NOS)
EPP/MSI alumna now leads a field division of NOAA’s research on atmospheric processes, quality, and climate
A photo of LaToya Myles, Ph.D., a 2001 NOAA EPP/MSI Graduate Sciences Program Alumni next to her quote, which reads: "You have got to give people a vision ... and have people you are working with be able to see that vision and pursue it.” Myles is now the Director of the Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division of the Air Resources Laboratory. (Graphic by Office of Education, photo courtesy of LaToya Myles.)
These three images from NOAA's GOES East (GOES-16) satellite show us what Earth looks like from space near the solstice. The images were captured about 24 hours before the 2018 solstice, at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 20, 2018. (NOAA Satellites)
When you blow across the top of your hot drink to cool it down, you are mimicking the same process that creates wind-driven waves in the ocean. If you use a layered drink as seen here, blowing across the top of the liquid shows how upwelling works. (Marissa Jones/NOAA)
Ocean Guardian School students from Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California, conducted scheduled patrols along Point Reyes National Seashore that involved collecting, recording and categorizing of the marine debris found along the coastline. (Sir Francis Drake High School, San Anselmo, California)
Walking down a bike path in Boulder, Colorado, three citizen scientists collect data on the Earth's magnetic field using the CrowdMag cellphone app. (Jennifer Taylor/CIRES)
Madison Bowe, a 2018 NOAA Hollings scholar, crosses a channel in Winchester Marsh, a sentinel site marsh in South Slough National Estuarine Reserve, Oregon. (June Cho)
A student participant virtually joins fisheries and aquaculture specialist Abigail Archer from Woods Hole Sea Grant for the NOAA Live! 4 Kids webinar, “Swimming Upstream with River Herring.” (Lindsey Williams)
NOAA's Community Resilience Education Theory of Change
Theory of Change community illustration, which includes lush greenery, people playing and conversing outside, and community buildings and houses. (NOAA Office of Education)
The German icebreaker Polarstern travels through Arctic sea ice in August 2020 as melt ponds are forming. The Polarstern has been in the Arctic Ocean since September 2019, supporting the international MOSAiC mission to better understand the region’s climate system and its influence on the rest of the world. (Courtesy of Lianna Nixon/CIRES/CU Boulder)
Final reminder for undergraduate scholarship applications
Hollings scholars have a variety of internships, from working with fish, diving, going aboard vessels, computer modeling, and more. Top (left to right): Hannah Brady, Andrew Tokuda, Alfre Wimberley, Amy Li. Bottom (left to right): Paul Campion, Amber Liggett, Ashley Bang, Caitlin Ford. (Top left photo: Chad King. Top, second photo to the left: Jacob Argueta/Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. All other photos courtesy of the scholar.)
2014 Partnership Education Program interns receive training in the field. The program gives students from under-represented groups the mentorship and hands-on research experience that can help launch a career in the sciences. (NOAA)
Courtney's internship was split into half coral disease research and half outreach. In this photo, Hollings Scholar Courtney Tierney is in one of the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa's management areas, Fagatele Bay, collecting coral disease data. (NOAA Hollings mentor Marieke Sudek)
NOAA Education loves seeing docents in action! In the fall of 2019, volunteer Madur Dwarakanath (left) is seen talking about seashells and rocks on display with guests at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon. Oregon Sea Grant operates the public education wing of the center. (Casey Henley/Broken Banjo Photograph)
NOAA satellite image for larger view of Hurricane Katrina taken Aug. 28, 2005, as the storm’s outer bands lashed the Gulf Coast of the United States a day before making landfall. (NOAA)
Hollings alumna Hillary Thalmann samples for larval Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska on the NOAA ship Oscar Dyson during her 2016 internship. Hillary poses on a ship with larval fish sampling nets and large water-quality samplers. She is wearing cold-weather field field gear and a safety helmet. (Photo courtesy of Hillary Thalmann)
Maryland Sea Grant State Science Policy Fellows - Call for applications
The Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve team is offering online resources to help educators and students learn about and experience the Chesapeake Bay. (Jennifer Dreyer)
Kick off a year of learning with our at-home resource collection!
NOAA is marking its 50th Anniversary on October 3! This graphic depicts photos that represent just some of our diverse mission areas, which range from the surface of the sun to the bottom of the ocean. Download the full image at noaa.gov/50-years. (NOAA)
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