Welcome to NOAA Podcasts
These are short reports on NOAA science and research. They are in mp3 files for easy downloads to desktop and laptops, as well as mobile devices capable of playing these files. You also can listen to these programs by simply clicking on the link.
2009 Podcasts
- Diving Deeper: Tides [April 8, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 23) [April 8, 2009] Undergraduate students from Rutgers University are finalizing preparations to launch an ocean glider on a journey from New Jersey to Spain (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 22) [April 1, 2009] Flame Retardants Found in U.S. Coastal Ecosystems Nationwide (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 21) [March 23, 2009] Caribbean Research Cruise - new online game for kids (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Nautical Charts [March 23, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 20) [March 13, 2009] An Exxon Valdez 20th Anniversary Special (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Integrated Ocean Observing System [March 9, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 19) [March 6, 2009] A new study partly funded by NOAA reveals what happened to hundreds of birds found stranded or dead in California’s Monterey Bay (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 18) [February 27, 2009] An early 20th century shipwreck located in a NOAA National Marine Sanctuary is added to the National Register of Historic Places. And the National Geodetic Survey celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Continuously Operating Reference Station program (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Marine Debris [February 23, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 17) [February 20, 2009] NOAA’s role in the recent U.S. Airways airplane crash on the Hudson River near Manhattan. Learn why experts from NOAA, California, Oregon, and Washington State met to discuss harmful algal blooms, more commonly known as 'red tides' (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 16) [February 13, 2009] Antibiotic resistance in the marine environment and potential new cures from the sea. Three new studies presented at a NOAA-sponsored symposium at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper: Marine Protected Areas [February 9, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 15) [February 6, 2009] Using Google Earth, explore the depths of the ocean and discover NOAA information and images along their journey; using ocean observations from satellites to predict the outbreak of cholera (Transcript)
- NOAA Dives into Ocean in Google Earth [February 2, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 14) [January 30, 2009] Effects of and solutions for sea-level rise on coastal areas. And the first reported invasive lionfish is captured in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (Transcript)
- Diving Deeper [January 26, 2009] (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 13) [January 23, 2009] Preview a new NOS podcast premiering on Jan. 26 called Diving Deeper. The new audio podcast will broadcast once every two weeks and feature interviews with NOS scientists and experts (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 12) [January 16, 2009] New director of the National Geodetic Survey and new features on NOS Web site (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 11) [January 9, 2009] A restoration plan for shoreline and habitats of the Delaware River damaged by a 2004 oil spill. Find out why NOS researchers are studying lobster trap debris in the Florida Keys (Transcript)
2008 Podcasts
- Making Waves (Episode 10) [December 31, 2008] A Year in Review (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 9) [December 23, 2008] How does the National Ocean Service help Santa on his journey around the country? (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 8, [December 19, 2008] New study leads to better understanding of ocean acidification (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 7) [December 11, 2008] Toxins from red tides are showing up in bottlenose dolphins in higher-than-expected amounts; cross coral jewelry off of your shopping list (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 6) [December 5, 2008] A new national system of marine protected areas; look at what three marine sanctuaries (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 5) [November 28, 2008] Learn what the National Ocean Service have to do with your Thanksgiving dinner (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 4) [November 21, 2008] NOS Participates in First Coastal Cities Summit; New England red tide; NOS Marine Forensics Program (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 3) [November 14, 2008] A recent expedition to map an unknown sea floor in the Arctic; Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary; a new digital map of underwater vegetation in the Coastal Bend region near Corpus Christi (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 2) [November 7, 2008] NOAA's role in the EcoZone® Green Schools; NOS Office of Response and Restoration; National Geodetic Survey revolutionizes the measurement of height (Transcript)
- Making Waves (Episode 1), a weekly audio program from NOAA's National Ocean Service [October 31, 2008] Research on the use of sonar to track threatened sea turtles; NOAA's new Ocean Today Kiosk; recent upgrades to the space-based global coral bleaching monitoring network; things reef managers and scientists can do to protect a reef when the ocean overheats (Transcript)
- Environmental Teaching Activity [August 15, 2008] (Transcript)
2007 Podcasts
- Radar Research [November 8, 2007] (Transcript)
- Improving Forecasts of Severe Storms [November 8, 2007] (Transcript)
- Estimating Precipitation and Improving Flash Flood Forecasting with Radar [November 8, 2007] (Transcript)
- Tornado Research [November 8, 2007] (Transcript)
- Climate and Hydrologic Research [July 18, 2007] (Transcript)
- Global Warming, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [July 18, 2007] (Transcript)
- The Challenges of Modeling Climate Change and Variability [July 18, 2007] (Transcript)
- The GFDL Hurricane Model [July 18, 2007] (Transcript)
- The Interaction of Oceans and Climate [July 17, 2007] (Transcript)
- Research in NOAA [June 22, 2007] (Transcript)
- Narwhal Whales as Oceanographers: Mission to Greenland [April 19, 2007] (Full Story)
- Researchers Find Global Positioning System Is Significantly Impacted by Powerful Solar Radio Burst [April 6, 2007] (Full Story)
2006 Podcasts
- NOAA Reports 2006 Marked by Severe Heat Waves, Widespread Drought, Wildfires [December 15, 2006] (Full Story)
- NOAA on Hurricane Katrina—One Year Later [August 30, 2006] (Full Story)
- NOAA on Ozone Hole Discovery 20 Years Ago [August 24, 2006] (Full Story)
- NOAA Observes 20th Anniversary of Ozone Hole 'Success Story' [August 23, 2006] (Full Story)
- Environmental Teaching Activity [August 15, 2008] (Transcript)
- NOAA Continues to Predict Above-normal Hurricane Season [August 9, 2006] (Full Story)
- NOAA Researcher Joins with Astronauts to Test Moon Exploration Concepts on the Seafloor [August 5, 2006] (Full Story)
- NOAA Predicts Very Active 2006 North Atlantic Hurricane Season [May 23, 2006] (Full Story)
- Flood Safety Awareness—Flooding is a coast to coast threat to the United States and its territories in all months of the year. [March 29, 2006] (Full Story)
- Galapagos Spreading Center: Exploring Undersea Volcanoes [January 31, 2006] (Full Story)
- Norfolk, Va., First East Coast City Declared TsunamiReady [January 24, 2006] (Full Story)
2005 Podcasts
- NOAA Organizes Rescue Team to Disentangle North Atlantic Right Whale [December 8, 2005] (Full Story)
- 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season and Global Earth Observing System of Systems, or GEOSS [December 6, 2005]
- Atlantic Hurricane Season 2005 and Beyond [November 30, 2005] (Full story.)
- NOAA Reviews Record-setting 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season; Active Hurricane Era Likely to Continue [November 29, 2005] (Full story.)
- NOAA Hurricane Podcast for Aug. 2, 2005, on the busy Atlantic hurricane season. (Full story.)
- NOAA on Open Ocean Aquaculture Legislation. (Full Story)
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