NOAA “Taking the Pulse of the Planet” award is at regional and state science fairs affiliated with the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) to students (one middle, one high school) whose research best supports NOAA’s mission “To understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts…” At the Montgomery County Regional Science [...]
On March 26-28, 2012, representatives from the National Ocean Service and National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science attended the Sixth NOAA Education and Science Forum hosted by the Environmental Cooperative Science Center (ECSC) at Florida A&M University and sponsored by NOAA. Nearly 1,000 students, faculty, federal scientists, private industry and the general public convened to view [...]
Fourteen divers were trained in basic and advanced scientific diving techniques at the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Kasitsna Bay Laboratory from 10-17 March 2012 in a class run by the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Diving is a key tool for near-shore marine research and the Kasitsna Bay Laboratory course provides hands-on training in [...]
I am a research ecologist at NOAA’s Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research in Beaufort, North Carolina, but to my family, I’m simply a “marine biologist.” I use underwater acoustic technologies (like fisheries sonar, fish-finding echo sounders, and multibeam sonar) to remotely detect fish and observe their behaviors in estuaries and the ocean. I [...]
The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science’s Hollings Marine Laboratory (HML) recently completed an onsite retreat as a means to integrate external expert recommendations and guidance to help develop future research investments for the laboratory. On February 28th and 29th, NCCOS administrators and scientists hosted four external panelists at the laboratory. The external panelists included: Dr. Tracy Collier (Science [...]
Christine Buckel will receive the NOAA Bronze Medal Award for developing a geospatial video technique to quantify the composition, distribution and abundance of estuarine submerged aquatic vegetation. Pat Tester will receive the Distinguished Career Award for her scientific achievements, and sustained innovation and excellence in harmful bloom research. Please join us in congratulating both Christine and [...]
NOAA scientist Dr. Bill Sunda was elected as a AAAS Fellow in November 2011, and is to be inducted February 18, 2012. Dr. Sunda is being honored for his pioneering research on trace metal biogeochemistry in the ocean. His work has had a significant impact on our understanding of the regulation of CO2-fixation and algal diversity in the ocean, and [...]
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is in the final stages of digitizing their Coastal and Estuarine Studies book series and has approached the NOAA Libraries in an effort to supply the unique titles that AGU is lacking. The NOAA Rice Library in Beaufort, North Carolina, maintains several of the unique titles in its print collection and will be [...]