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Kittiwake Committee: Monitoring Black-legged kittiwakes in Homer, Alaska

I’m Galen June, and I’m studying marine biology with a minor in statistics at Old Dominion University. I spent my summer in Homer, Alaska, at the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR ...
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A toothy summer in Charleston: My internship studying barium in bottlenose dolphin teeth to determine freshwater exposure

Hi everyone! My name is Hannah Baker and I’m a 2025 Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship student studying Earth and Environmental Sciences with a minor in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the ...
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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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NOAA’s flood mapping tool now covers nearly 100% of U.S.

NOAA’s National Weather Service announced today that Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM), a revolutionary tool for predicting river flooding, is now available on an experimental basis to nearly 100% of the ...
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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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NOAA announces 2026 federal recreational red snapper season, exempted fishing permits in South Atlantic

NOAA Fisheries announced today the 2026 federal recreational red snapper fishing season in the South Atlantic and the issuance of three exempted fishing permits (EFPs) to Florida, Georgia, and South ...
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NOAA advances review of first-ever deep seabed mining commercial recovery application

Public invited to comment on application for exploration and commercial recovery of critical mineral-rich nodules in the Pacific ...
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NOAA maintains prediction for below-normal Atlantic hurricane season

With the climatological peak of hurricane season approaching in early September, NOAA’s prediction for below-normal activity in the Atlantic basin remains. Forecasters from NOAA’s National Weather ...
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NOAA’s use of cloud infrastructure grows to include weather prediction models

In the latest innovation to NOAA’s operational weather forecast model technology, the agency announced today that it is moving its high-performance supercomputing operations to the commercial cloud.
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El Nino forms, expected to strengthen, say NOAA forecasters

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