National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Trump Administration releases America First Seafood Strategy

Today, the Trump Administration announced the America First Seafood Strategy, a key directive under the president’s Executive ...
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Commerce Department allocates $15.8M in fishery disaster funding to Fla., Calif., and Makah Tribe

Today, NOAA announced the allocation of $15.8 million in fishery resource disaster funding, appropriated by Congress in the American Relief Act, 2025. The funding will address multiple fishery ...
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El Nino looms large over U.S. Winter Outlook

Temperature Outlook Warmer-than-average temperatures are favored for northern California, the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Mississippi Valley, much of the East, Alaska and for Puerto Rico / U.S. Virgin ...
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Weekend nor’easter likely to bring damaging winds, coastal flooding

Forecasters at NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) are monitoring a powerful nor’easter bringing damaging wind gusts and dangerous coastal flooding to the Northeast this weekend. The New York City ...
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Harmful Algal Blooms

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) occur when algae — simple photosynthetic organisms that live in the sea and freshwater — grow out of control while producing toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, ...
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What is the carbon cycle?

It appears that your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Here's a direct link to the video instead. VIDEO: The carbon cycle describes the process in which carbon atoms continually travel from the ...
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What does an oceanographer do?

Several thousand marine scientists are busy at work in the United States dealing with a diversity of important issues — from climate change, declining fisheries, and eroding coastlines, to the ...
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Where do I get NOAA tides and currents data?

This National Water Level Observation Network station is specially reinforced to withstand hurricanes and other major storms. The stations are better able to keep functioning during these events, ...
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NOAA boosts weather data collection capabilities with new Mesonet contract

NOAA’s National Weather Service will expand the National Mesonet Program offsite link — an observational weather “network of networks” that delivers critical information required for improved weather ...
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NOAA and partners to explore, map deep waters of American Samoa

NOAA Ocean Exploration and its partners will conduct two expeditions in waters around American Samoa this summer and fall to map and characterize the deep seafloor in the nation’s highest-priority ...
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Pacific Hurricanes Fausto and Genevieve actually had origins near Africa

NOAA's GOES West satellite captured this image of three tropical cyclones — Hurricanes Fausto and Genevieve and Typhoon Dolphin — swirling simultaneously in the Pacific Ocean. The image was taken on ...