2016
-
Nov. 17, 2016
New report highlights actions of seven partnerships to safeguard natural resources
-
Oct. 4, 2016
NOAA B-WET program awards $452,583 to Washington and Oregon organizations for environmental education
-
Sept. 27, 2016
Ten companies slowing ships in Santa Barbara Channel region 2016 program to protect blue whales and blue skies
-
Sept. 6, 2016
Scientists from the Bishop Museum and NOAA have published a description of a new species of butterflyfish from deep reefs of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
-
Aug. 26, 2016
On Friday, President Obama will expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating the world’s largest marine protected area.
-
Aug. 22, 2016
NOAA and its partners will visit what remains of the two ships, documenting World War II’s “Battle of the Atlantic,” which pitted U-boats of the German navy against combined Canadian, British, and American forces defending Allied merchant ships.
-
Jun. 23, 2016
NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries has selected two graduate students as recipients of the Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship, representing graduate-level areas of study such as marine biology, oceanography and maritime archaeology.
-
Jun. 15, 2016
Three new species of fish are among the discoveries announced as scientists returned from a 25-day research expedition aboard NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai to explore the deep coral reefs of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM) in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI).
-
Jun. 7, 2016
Building on more than 30 years of scientific studies, including numerous reports released in the last decade and in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, NOAA today announced a proposal to expand Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary to protect additional critical Gulf of Mexico habitat.
-
Mar. 23, 2016
Today, NOAA and the U.S. Navy announced the discovery of the USS Conestoga (AT 54) in the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary off San Francisco, 95 years after the Navy seagoing fleet tugboat disappeared with 56 officers and sailors aboard. The discovery solves one of the top maritime mysteries in U.S. Navy history.
-
Feb. 2, 2016
Scientists working with NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries announced the discovery of four new species of deep-water algae from Hawaiʻi. Marine algae, or limu,are very important in Hawaiian culture, used in foods, ceremonies and as adornments in traditional hula. The new species of limu were collected between 200-400 feet, depths not typically known for marine algae.
-
Jan. 20, 2016
Today, NOAA released the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Condition Report that describes the state of the sanctuary's resources and pressures that affect the nation's second largest marine sanctuary. While overall the sanctuary's habitats and animals are doing quite well compared to much of the ocean, this detailed assessment helps to identify sanctuary resources that still have room for improvement.
-
Jan. 8, 2016
Following several years of scientific and archaeological assessment and public input, NOAA today announced plans to consider possible expansion of Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, off the North Carolina coast. The proposed expansion would protect a collection of historically significant shipwrecks including vessels sunk during World War II's Battle of the Atlantic.
-
Jan. 6, 2016
NOAA archaeologists have discovered the battered hulls of two 1800s whaling ships nearly 144 years after they and 31 others sank off the Arctic coast of Alaska in one of the planet's most unexplored ocean regions.