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NOAA News Releases
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The latest news releases from NOAA - the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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NOAA Names First Woman to Direct National Geodetic Survey
Juliana P. Blackwell has been named the new director of NOAA?s Office of National Geodetic Survey where she will oversee NOAA's responsibilities for the nation's spatial reference system. She is the first woman to head the nation's oldest federal science agency which was established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast.
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NOAA and Partners Attempt Disentanglement of Right Whale off Florida
NOAA?s Fisheries Service and its rescue team partners attempted a disentanglement of a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale earlier today.
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Monument Agencies Release Papah?naumoku?kea Management Plan
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the state of Hawai?i has released the completed management plan and associated environmental assessments for Papah?naumoku?kea Marine National Monument, the nation?s largest marine protected area.
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NOAA Determines Ribbon Seals Should Not be Listed as Endangered
NOAA today announced that ribbon seals are not in current danger of extinction or likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future, and should not be listed under the Endangered Species Act.
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NOAA Proposes Rule to Reduce Charter Halibut Catch
NOAA today proposed reducing the number of halibut that charter vessel anglers in southeast Alaska can keep, from two each day to one.
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Department of Commerce Rules on Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency Consistency Appeal
The Department of Commerce today upheld the California Coastal Commission's objection to a proposal to construct a 16-mile toll road connecting California state Route 241 to Interstate 5 in southern Orange and northern San Diego counties.
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NOAA: Jason-2 Satellite Data Now Available to Scientists
NOAA announced that scientists around the world now have access to valuable data from a new international satellite, the Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission. This information allows them to closely watch the rate of global sea-level rise and monitor changing ocean features around tropical cyclones.
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Humans, Oceans Shaped North American Climate over Past 50 Years
Greenhouse gases play an important role in North American climate, but differences in regional ocean temperatures may hold a key to predicting future U.S. regional climate changes, according to a new NOAA-led scientific assessment. The assessment is one in a series of synthesis and assessment reports coordinated by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
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NOAA?s Simulation Tool Prepares Oregon Coastal Towns for Tsunamis and Floods
NOAA scientists have created four high-resolution digital elevation models, or DEMs, of Oregon?s coastline that simulate deadly tsunamis and floods. These models will help emergency managers develop life-saving plans for communities in those locations.
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NOAA Recognizes San Francisco as TsunamiReady?
San Francisco has completed NOAA's National Weather Service TsunamiReady? recognition program, better equipping the city to prepare and warn its citizens for tsunamis. San Francisco is now the most populous city in the United States to achieve TsunamiReady? recognition and joins more than 60 TsunamiReady? communities throughout the country, including 14 in California.
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NOAA Declares Nation?s First StormReadyŽ Supporter High School
The teachers and students of John T. Hoggard High School in Wilmington, N. C., are the first high school in the country to prepare an action plan and practice drills making them ready for a tornado or other severe weather. This preparation has earned them the designation as a NOAA National Weather Service StormReadyŽ Supporter.
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Nenana, Alaska, Receives Nation?s 1,000th NOAA Weather Radio Transmitter
Central interior Alaskan residents, visitors, barge captains and railroad operators now have access to weather information anytime, thanks to a new NOAA Weather Radio All-Hazards transmitter recently installed on Toghotthele Hill in Nenana, the 1,000th of these transmitters installed by NOAA.
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NOAA Charges Florida Dive Charter Businesses for Fishing Without Federal Permits
NOAA has charged two dive business owners in Pensacola, Fla., with illegally operating spearfishing charters without the appropriate permits in federal waters off the Florida panhandle.
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NOAA, NASA Select Contractor to Build GOES-R Series Spacecraft
NOAA and NASA officials announced today Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, of Denver, Colo., has been selected to build two spacecraft for NOAA?s next generation geostationary satellite series, GOES-R. There are two options, each providing for one additional satellite. Scheduled for launch in 2015, the new satellites will provide more data in greater detail which is essential to creating accurate weather forecasts.
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NOAA Satellite Conference Helps Users Prepare for Future
Weather and climate forecasters, emergency managers and other users of NOAA satellite information will meet with top NOAA officials in Miami, Dec. 8-12, to learn more about new equipment and software that will be needed to retrieve data from the next generation of NOAA satellites.
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NOAA?s Fisheries Service Releases an Additional $70 Million in Disaster Aid to West Coast Salmon Fishing Industry
NOAA's Fisheries Service announced today it is making an additional $70 million in disaster-relief aid available to West Coast salmon fishermen, completing a financial-assistance package announced in September, when the agency released $100 million in disaster assistance.
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Seattle Group to Pay Nearly $450,000 Settlement for Alaska Fisheries Violations
NOAA's Office of the General Counsel for Enforcement and Litigation has announced a settlement agreement with the Fishing Company of Alaska and the captains and the owner of the F/V Alaska Juris for fisheries violations occurring from 2002 through 2004.
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New Study Details Ocean Acidification in the Caribbean
A new study, which confirms significant ocean acidification across much of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, reports strong natural variations in ocean chemistry in some parts of the Caribbean that could affect the way reefs respond to future ocean acidification. Such short-term variability has often been underappreciated and may prove an important consideration when predicting the long-term impacts of ocean acidification to coral reefs.
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NOAA Scientist to Receive Grande Medaille from French Academy
For her scientific achievements, including pioneering research that helped explain the cause of the ozone hole, and her leadership as co-chair of Working Group 1 for the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report, NOAA Senior Scientist Susan Solomon will receive the Grande Medaille from the Institute of France?s Academy of Sciences.
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NOAA Releases Plans for Managing and Protecting Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries
NOAA has released final revised management plans, regulations and a joint final environmental impact statement for Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones and Monterey Bay national marine sanctuaries. The plans include the expansion of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary by 775 square miles to include the Davidson Seamount, one of the largest known underwater mountains in U.S. coastal waters and home to a wide variety of marine species.
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