Tag: NOAA

swin clam Building the first traditional clam garden on Swinomish land. Credit: NWIFC

Swinomish Clam Garden to Bolster Littleneck Clam Populations

1/19/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov Reviving a 3,500-year-old indigenous mariculture practice with funding from NOAA. First Modern Clam Garden The Swinomish Tribe and other Coast Salish Indigenous peoples hold a rich history of practicing shellfish mariculture in Alaskan and Washington waters. For more than 3,500 years, native communities created clam gardens by constructing… SEE MORE

Marine ecosystems provide recreational boating and fishing opportunities that have economic value to people. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Accurately Accounting for the Economic Value of Marine Ecosystems

1/13/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov Reliable estimates of the monetary value of benefits provided by marine ecosystems is key to balancing tradeoffs among ecological, social, and economic priorities. [caption id="attachment_44445" align="alignnone" width="617"] Marine Ecosystem Service, Ecosystem services are the many benefits that ecosystems provide to humans.[/caption] Marine ecosystems provide myriad benefits to humans—from… SEE MORE

David Broad, CC BY 3.0 ,Fish_farming_in_Aegean_Turkey_-_panoramio via Wikimedia Commons

Does Rebuilding an Island Rebuild Fish Habitat?

1/12/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov Scientists from the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office are investigating whether fish are using restored areas at Maryland’s Poplar Island. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="800"] Scientists retrieve fish caught in a fyke net near Poplar Island to record species, number, and lengths. Photo: NOAA Fisheries/NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office[/caption] Scientists at… SEE MORE

NOAA surveyors Charles Geoghegan and Benjamin Erickson

A Tale of Two Feet

1/10/2023 - By oceanservice.noaa.gov NOAA, NIST prepare to drop U.S. survey foot and adopt the international survey foot in a move towards more precise positioning. Since 1959, land surveyors and other geospatial professionals have had two standards to measure the length of a foot — the U.S. survey foot and the international… SEE MORE

What are atmospheric rivers?

1/7/2023 - By noaa.gov Learn more about these rivers in the sky Atmospheric rivers are relatively long, narrow regions in the atmosphere – like rivers in the sky – that transport most of the water vapor outside of the tropics. These columns of vapor move with the weather, carrying an amount of… SEE MORE

Flooded Streets, Sea level rise is turning nuisance flooding into a “sunny day” event — high-tide flooding that occurs even without a storm. Credit: NOAA

NOAA to Launch Major Advancement in Seasonal High Tide Flooding Predictions

12/14/2022 - By oceanservice.noaa.gov The new model will aid flooding and restoration efforts, and help lessen possible impacts from climate change. In 2023, NOAA plans to unveil a new model to more accurately predict when and where high tide flooding will likely occur up to a year ahead of time. This new… SEE MORE

NOAA's Report on the long-term (1852 to 2021) mean sea surface temperature in the Northeast for the last six months of each year. The red lines show the linear trend, the titles indicate the trend’s significance, and the blue lines represent change points.

NOAA Fisheries Updates Report on Current Conditions of the Northeast U.S. Shelf Ecosystem

11/14/2022 - By NOAA Fisheries NOTE: This is a biannual report published by NOAA Fisheries. It was last updated this report on 10/27/22 and reflects document sea surface temperature trends, chlorophyll concentrations, fish distributions, etc. conditions in 2021 and early 2022. Introduction Current Conditions is a biannual report on ecosystem and fisheries data… SEE MORE

NOAA's U.S. Winter Outlook 2022-2023 map

U.S. Winter Outlook: Warmer, Drier South with Ongoing La Nina

11/11/2022 - By NOAA This year La Niña returns for the third consecutive winter, driving warmer-than-average temperatures for the Southwest and along the Gulf Coast and eastern seaboard, according to NOAA’s U.S. Winter Outlook released today by the Climate Prediction Center — a division of the National Weather Service. Starting in December… SEE MORE

NOAA’s New Satellite to Help Improve Extreme Weather Predictions

11/10/2022 - By NOAA NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2), the third in a series of five advanced polar-orbiting satellites, blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 1:49 a.m. PST today. The satellite will join its predecessors, Suomi NPP and NOAA-20, as they circle the globe 14 times a day,… SEE MORE

Progress Seen in Repairing the Ozone Layer

8/30/2022 - By NOAA. An annual analysis of air samples collected at remote sites around the globe that is tracking a continued decline in the atmospheric concentration of ozone-depleting substances shows the threat to the ozone layer receding below a significant milestone in 2022, NOAA scientists have announced. In early 2022, the… SEE MORE