NOAA Ship Fairweather begins a 30-day survey mission in the Arctic this week, scheduled to check a sparsely measured 1,500-nautical mile coastal corridor from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, north through the Bering Strait and east to the Canadian border.
By Natalie Hummel Recently, I attended an urban manufacturing tour in Philadelphia with a dedicated group from Philadelphia’s Department of Labor, Commerce and Water, University of Penn, Drexel University, Peoples Emergency Center and the Pratt Center (NY). It was an exciting opportunity to step…
NOAA-supported scientists have found the size of this year’s Gulf of Mexico oxygen-free 'dead zone' to be the fourth smallest since mapping of the annual hypoxic, or oxygen-free area began in 1985.
By Jessica Orquina Do you check in everywhere you go? Are you the mayor of your favorite coffee shop, café, or park? Then you’ll want to check this out. I’m excited to announce that EPA has joined Foursquare! Here is the link to our page: http://foursquare.com/epagov On Foursquare, we’re…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- What Anglers Can Do To Fight Invasive Species (Jul 3, 2012) See how you can help prevent aquatic invasive species and protect our waters! * See our Aquatic Species - What You Can Do for more information and additional resources.
By Jeanethe Falvey Nature and what we build in it has a way of redefining our notion of worst-case scenario. What more can we do, but forge ahead hoping it doesn’t happen to us? ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ ‘Katrina’, ‘Yellowstone River’… The list goes on. We live on a dynamic planet and…
By Lina Younes With this unrelenting heat and dry weather I didn’t think we would have a problem with mosquitoes in our area. However, it seems to me that there are unusual numbers of mosquitoes and other bugs this summer in spite of the limited rainfall in our region. In fact, you do not need…
By Amy Miller I have a headache. I just bought a new car and I tell you, it’s confusing. We have a van and an AWD wagon. We like them both, but as you know the gas is killing us. Let’s go for one of those 40 mpg and greater cars, I told my husband. [...]
By Lina Younes There is no doubt that being “the first” at something is often newsworthy. For example, being the first to reach the finish line or being the first to set a world record. However, how many times being “the first” is truly historic? Such is the case of some women who were true…
By Amy Miller I might as well move to Alaska where you have to walk around with a net over your head all summer. The little black flies were so bad at the top of Blueberry Mountain in the White Mountain National Forest of Maine (that’s right! The Whites Mountains cross into Maine) that I [...]
Scientists from Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and partner agencies will depart Key West Thursday aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster to map fish spawning sites between Key West and the Dry Tortugas.
Officials from NOAA’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and the city of Santa Cruz today celebrated the opening of the Sanctuary Exploration Center, a state-of-the-art facility full of interpretive and hands-on exhibits highlighting the sanctuary’s extraordinary natural and cultural…
The White House today named two NOAA scientists and a NOAA-funded scientist as recipients of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
By Gina Snyder It started with me trying to take the shower head off my shower and clear off some of the mineral build-up. I broke it. So, I went to the local hardware store and looked at the options. Who knew you could spend hundreds of dollars for just a shower head? I looked [...]
By Amy Miller Jargon is my nemesis. I rail against it for a living. But today I will break my own rule because today I want to write about triple the Triple Bottom Line. I love this concept developed in environmental and overlapping business circles. Basically it says what your mom always told you:…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a plan for the contaminated ground water at the Cornell-Dubilier Electronics Superfund site in South Plainfield, New Jersey that will prevent its use as a source of drinking water. The ground water associated with the site,…
By Lina Younes While we often call Earth the “water planet” because 70% of its surface is covered by water, less than 1% of that precious resource is available for human use. Given the lower than average rainfall in the US and many places around the globe this summer, many of us are looking at…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Identification Resources Provides general resources to help identify unknown species that may be invasive. Species identification is important in helping gardeners, land managers, and landscape architects identify invasive species…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Invasive Plant Science and Management - Apr-Jun 2012 (Vol 5, Issue 2) is now available online. Note : Article abstracts are available to everyone. Full-text articles may require a subscription (USDA access through DigiTop ).…
NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette arrived back in its homeport of Honolulu on Saturday after scientists spent a month of collected nearly 50 metric tons of marine debris in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.