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Scientists complete mission to map fast-moving fault off Alaska

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The crew of NOAA Ship Fairweather crew lower a launch into Puget Sound, Washington, for Hydrographic Systems Readiness Review testing. Since 2015, scientists have been gathering data on the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault system, a 746-mile long strike-slip fault line that extends from offshore of Vancouver Island, Canada, to the Fairweather Range of southeast Alaska. The team has gathered high resolution bathymetric data through multibeam sonar across 5,792 square miles of the ocean bottom

Science in service to the planet we call home

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Collage showing rockfish in the Northwest’s Puget Sound region, marine debris collection in Hawaii and CoCoRaHS volunteer measuring precipitation.

NOAA Science Report highlights 2017 research accomplishments

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Eric Moglia, of NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, pumps air from sampling flasks to test them for leaks before preparing them for shipment to some 80 sites around the world.

Science is kid's play: Online games for school breaks or anytime at all

December 22, 2017

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Check out NOAA's science games portal and other activities to explore our world, from the skies to the depths of the sea.

National Science Teachers Association Conferencesoffsite link

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How do snowflakes form? Get the science behind snow

December 19, 2016

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Snowflakes.