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Podcast: Protecting Culebra's coral reefs

February 3, 2021

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A beautiful beach on Culebra Island, Puerto Rico. Undated image.

Podcast: Shipwrecks, science and stewardship

February 3, 2021

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marine protected areas

A scuba diver near the shipwreck of the package freighter Florida in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Undated image.

Videos and podcasts

November 16, 2020

NOAA Ocean Today Coral Comeback.

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Education at home

Podcast: From diving to data, get a close-up look at coral research

September 2, 2020

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NOAA Research Ecologist and scuba diver Shay Viehman finishes up a survey of corals in the deep blue waters of Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. In the foreground is a huge mound of corals.

Podcast: Looking back on a legacy of seafood sustainability

November 5, 2019

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sustainable seafood

A fish Monger at Pike Place Market catching a fish for tourists late in the day.

Podcast: Heard of meteotsunamis? Tune in to our chat with a NOAA oceanographer

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Stormy weather over the ocean can sometimes fuel the development of meteotsunamis, a series of waves typically much smaller and less destructive than those associated with seismically generated tsunamis.

Podcast: Listen to NOAA and the Octonauts Episode 3, The Walrus Chief

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Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers

Episode 3: The Walrus Chief
Enter the world of walruses with the Alaska SeaLife Center as your guide! Learn about their hierarchy, their amazing multi-use tusks, and their need for protection.

Podcast: Autonomous technology helps predict hurricane intensity

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technology & innovation

Glider.

New podcast helps parents teach their kids about Octonauts sea creatures

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Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers

Office of Education

Welcome to "NOAA and the Octonauts," an episode-by-episode discussion of the children’s TV show The Octonauts, which features a crew of quirky and courageous undersea adventurers. Their mission: to explore the world’s ocean, rescue the creatures who live there, and protect their habitats. Our monthly podcast brings together experts from inside and outside of NOAA to help you and the children you care about learn more about the real-life versions of the Octonauts sea creatures and the ocean they call home.

Podcast: Rehabilitating endangered Hawaiian monk seals to recover the species

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NOAA scientists transport a juvenile monk seal for potential rehabilitation.

Podcast: Navigating the sea with digital charts

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Electronic navigational chart.

Podcast: Citizen scientists help monitor marine life during Sanctuary Ocean Count

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citizen science

A humpback whale surfaces near the island of Maui.

Podcast: Get to know your American Samoa and the 'Fa'a Samoa'

December 6, 2018

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Hideyo Hattori, Site Liaison, NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) and NOAA Coastal Zone Management Program (CZMP).

Podcast: What you need to know about ocean noise

September 10, 2018

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Noise pollution in the ocean has increased dramatically in the last 50 years.

Podcast: Protecting coasts with natural infrastructure

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Pivers Island living shoreline.

Podcast: The motion of the ocean

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tides and currents

The Gulf Stream.

Podcast: What is an ocean garbage patch?

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In this photo, the Pacific ocean is shown with mountains in the distance. The most famous example of an ocean gyre’s tendency to "take out our trash" is the Great Pacific garbage patch located within the North Pacific Gyre.

Podcast: Dealing with hypoxic "dead zones" in the ocean

February 23, 2018

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The largest hypoxic zone in the U.S. forms in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Podcast: Geodesy, the invisible backbone of navigation

January 19, 2018

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Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding the Earth's geometric shape, orientation in space, and gravity field.

Podcast: Studying ocean movement is good for the economy

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coastal economies

A NOAA team deploys a current meter with surface floats to take measurements throughout the water column during surveys of Puget Sound.

Podcast: Celebrating 100 years of service for the NOAA Corps

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aircraft operations

NOAA Ship Fairweather in Kodiak, Alaska

Podcast: Moving towards restoration of industrial waste sites

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coastal restoration

habitat restoration

Restoration of rivers and their associated riparian habitats are underway as a result of natural resource damage assessment activities conducted by NOAA and the other Natural Resource Trustees at hazardous waste sites. This image shows Raritan River, New Jersey.

Podcast: Find a benchmark? If so, we want to know

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The GPS on Benchmarks project encourages people to visit the bench mark of their choice, such as the one shown here, collect GPS observations and send the information to NOAA.

Podcast: Picking the best spots for offshore wind energy

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Hawaiian islands viewed from space.

Podcast: How a new national network aims to take the pulse of the ocean

January 19, 2017

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marine biodiversity

A school of barracuda.

Podcast: Bringing wetlands to market

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A graduate student at the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve documents the information from a gas chamber measuring carbon dioxide and methane exchange within the marsh for the Bringing Wetlands to Market project.

PODCAST: Putting the World in World Sea Turtle Day

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Sea Turtle Week

NOAA Fisheries scientist Manjula Tiwari measures a sea turtle carapace.

Podcast: Explore living shorelines

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coastal ecosystems

Sea level rise is causing increased flooding of salt marshes, creating a super saline environment through standing ponds that kill surrounding vegetation. Credit: Meredith Haas, Rhode Island Sea Grant

Podcast: Alaska is full of wilderness, beauty—and marine debris?

February 2, 2016

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Alaska has a marine debris problem.

PODCAST: Connecting the dots between humans and coral reefs

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NOAA closely monitors coral health near U.S. states and territories with high densities of coral reefs. Part of this long-term scientific study involves better understanding the humans who live near and rely upon these reefs. Shown here: Hanauma Bay, Hawaii