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For NOAA Scientists, Tagging Yields Clues to Endangered Sawfish
Scientists from NOAA’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center are seeking to understand and recover populations of the unique and misunderstood smalltooth sawfish. They are used to trudging through difficult terrain to deploy a variety of sampling gear aimed at tagging and studying sawfish in their natural habitat. [more] |
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Leatherback Conservation Efforts Inspire Hope Across the Pacific
The endangered Pacific leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) arrives in late summer and fall to feed on large groups of jellyfish. The turtles have become a conservation priority for both NOAA Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [more] |
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Eyes in the Sky Track Alaska’s Belugas
How does NOAA keep track of Alaska’s elusive Cook Inlet beluga whales? Four people. A plane. 40 hours. And 2,698 miles of searchable inlet waters. In June, NOAA Fisheries’ National Marine Mammal Laboratory conducted its 17th annual aerial count of belugas the silt-laden waters of Cook Inlet, near Anchorage, Alaska. [more] |
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For CIRES Employee, a Green Thumb and a Lifestyle to Match
Greening the environment is not just a job for ESRL’s Molly Heller, it’s her life. What’s more: Heller’s innovative efforts to increase energy efficiency and reduce green house gas emissions in the workplace have earned her this year’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies (CIRES) Outstanding Performance in Service Award. [more] |
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Waterkeepers the Key to Clean, Healthy Waterways
“Treat the Earth well; it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.” These words were delivered on June 26 in New York by NOAA Ocean Service Assistant Administrator John H. Dunnigan at the 11th Annual Waterkeeper Alliance Conference, a gathering of advocates for the nation’s waterways. [more] |
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Perspectives on NOAA Restoration Day ’09
Each year in June, hundreds of NOAA employees, along with state and local partners, leave the comfort of their air-conditioned offices for a day of hard work along the Chesapeake Bay to take part in NOAA Restoration Day. [more] |
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NOAA Setting Whales on ‘Right’ Path to Safety
For NOAA researchers studying North Atlantic right whales, the 2008–2009 calving season proved to be a record-setter. The number of new calves observed on the calving grounds hit an all-time record high (39), but so did the number of entangled right whale cases sighted during the season. [more] |
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NOAA Sparks U.S.-Canadian Dialogue on Endangered Killer Whales
NOAA scientists gathered more than 175 wildlife naturalists and educators for the first time this spring to discuss the endangered population of killer whales residing year-round in U.S. and Canadian waters off the coast of Washington state and British Columbia. [more] |
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Syndicated Comic Strip Helps Launch New National System of MPAs
Cartoonist Jim Toomey has created a National System Sherman’s Lagoon Poster to help promote the new National System of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), a joint effort between the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Interior. [more] |
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NOAA Campaigns Help Public Get 'SMART' About Wild Dolphins NOAA Fisheries’ Southeast Regional Office launched an innovative campaign in March to educate the public about the danger of feeding wild bottlenose dolphins. Four years in the making, the PSA involved a coalition of NOAA partners to develop and distribute it. [more] |