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Teachers: Get ready for the new school year with NOAA

Teacher at Sea alum Trevor Hance led a Trout in the Classroom program for 140 second-grade students at Laurel Mountain Elementary in Austin, Texas.

Saildrone is first to circumnavigate Antarctica, in search for carbon dioxide

Saildrone 1020 approaches Point Bluff, New Zealand, in stormy conditions after completing the first unmanned circumnavigation of Antarctica in early August 2019. It sailed more than 13,000 miles around the Southern Ocean in 196 days.

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Science and shipwrecks: Preserving America’s maritime history

USS Conestoga (AT 54), the last known broadside photograph taken likely during WWI when the tugboat was equipped with a 3-inch 50 caliber naval gun and two machine guns. The tugboat was later equipped with only a single 3-inch 50 caliber gun when it disappeared while en route from Mare Island to America Samoa, by way of Pearl Harbor in 1921.

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Expedition reveals coral devastation in remote Pacific marine monument

During a July 2019 expedition, divers observed devastating damage to coral reef sites at Rapture Reef in French Frigate Shoals.

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July 2019 was hottest month on record for the planet

A collage of typical climate and weather-related events: heatwaves, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and changes in sea ice coverage.

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Bay Watershed Education and Training grantees put environmental education into action

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Getting ready for the Atlantic hurricane season

More than 2500 students in the 4th and 5 grade took a tour of the NOAA WD-3D Orion Aircraft and met the crews who fly into the storms. The kids will take that information home to see if their families are ready for hurricanes. May 9, 2019.

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The science behind the polar vortex

The science behind the polar vortex.

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Public may comment on proposed changes to Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

August 20, 2019

Coral reefs like this one in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary buffer shorelines from wave action, storms, and erosion, and protect wetlands and harbors.

NOAA awards $2.7 million in grants for marine debris removal and research

August 15, 2019

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A marine debris team member gathers a handful of disposable cigarette lighters picked up at a beach cleanup site.

NOAA increases chance for above-normal hurricane season

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hurricane season

Flooding is always a significant threat during tropical cyclones. In August 2017 Hurricane Harvey struck the Texas coast and after moving inland the storm stalled for four days dropping more than 60 inches of rain over southeastern Texas.

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Advisory panel to focus on precision navigation, subsidence and sea level rise

August 15, 2019

The New Orleans Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots Association uses a portable pilot unit displaying NOAA ENC® data as it guides a tanker running upriver from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.

NOAA monthly climate call: Thursday, August 15

August 13, 2019

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climate analyses and statistics

A collage of typical climate and weather-related events: heatwaves, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and changes in sea ice coverage.

NOAA to present Florida Keys draft restoration plan

August 12, 2019

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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

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Coast Survey field test shows potential of unmanned surveys

August 19, 2019

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nautical charts and maps

An autonomous survey launch (RA-3). Red circles drawn over photo of vessel identify newly installed radios and cameras for autonomous (unmanned) operation.

50 years after Hurricane Camille, NOAA satellites are keeping the nation weather-ready

August 16, 2019

This image of Hurricane Camille was captured by NIMBUS-3, an early generation weather satellite, on August 16, 1969.

Expedition reveals coral devastation in remote Pacific marine monument

August 16, 2019

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During a July 2019 expedition, divers observed devastating damage to coral reef sites at Rapture Reef in French Frigate Shoals.

July 2019 was hottest month on record for the planet

August 15, 2019

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climate analyses and statistics

A collage of typical climate and weather-related events: heatwaves, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and changes in sea ice coverage.

Underwater robots deployed to map and measure harmful algae in Lake Erie

August 15, 2019

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harmful algal blooms (HABs)

NOAA scientists prepare to launch an underwater robot in western Lake Erie that is designed to map harmful algal blooms and measure the toxicity of the algae

Unprecedented 2018 Bering Sea ice loss repeated in 2019

August 14, 2019

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The Coast Guard Cutter Munro from Kodiak, Alaska, sails toward the sunset during an unusually calm evening on the Bering Sea.

International climate report confirms 2018 was 4th warmest year on record for planet

August 12, 2019

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A new tool developed by NOAA will help farmers, ranchers and water managers recognize oncoming drought.

NOAA awards $6.5 million in species recovery grants

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Monk seal RS00, also known as Ewa Girl, rests on the beach at Oahu.

Penobscot River salmon run is the highest since 2011

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An Atlantic salmon leaps upstream.

Number of stocks on the overfishing list remains near all-time lows

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commercial fishing

Fishing in the Atlantic Ocean.

U.S. fish stocks continue positive trend with 45 rebuilt since 2000

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commercial fishing

A colorful pile of fishing nets.

Alaska had its hottest month on record in July

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climate analyses and statistics

An abnormally hot, dry July 2019 for Alaska: The Boney Creek Fire (aerial photo) was started on July 18 by lightning and was burning about 10 miles southwest of the village of Tanana and about 2 miles southeast of the nearest allotments as of July 19.

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