NOPP is excited to announce a new funding opportunity in partnership with the Office of Naval Research (ONR)!
Across the world’s oceans bob 3,500 free-floating instruments. Every ten days, the probes descend to 1,000 meters, drift, descend to 2,000 meters, and then rise to the surf
The NOPP Excellence in Partnering awards ceremony hosted by the NOPP Office in October at the MTS/IEEE Oceans ’12 conference in Virginia Beach, VA has been featured in the most recent publication of the Marine Technology Society’s newsletter (MTS) Currents. The article can be found here.The most recent volume of Currents can also be found [...]
The NOPP Office would like to once again congratulate Takemasa Miyoshi, Masaru Kunii, Eugenia Kalnay, and Hong Li on their two new publications resulting from NOPP-funded research on tropical cyclone forecasting and modeling!
In 2008, University of Alaska Fairbanks professor Dr. Ping Lan created the Arctic Innovation Competition (AIC) as a way to facilitate the sharing of ideas and engage communities around the world in innovation and research. The application process is now open for the 2012 competition! The competition is open to anyone who has an idea they would like [...]
The NOPP Office would like to congratulate Dr. Christopher Clark from the Cornell Bioacoustics Research Program, Dr. Leila Hatch from NOAA’s Stellwagon Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and their colleagues on their recent publication in Conservation Biology titled “Quanitifing Loss of Acoustic Communication Space for Right Whales In and Around a U.S. National Marine Sanctuary.” This [...]
The NOPP Office would like to congratulate Dr. Len Thomas and Dr. Tiago Marques from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on their publication in the upcoming issue of Acoustics Today, a magazine published through the Acoustical Society of America. The article is titled “Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Estimating Animal Density”, and is the [...]
The Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP) will hold a meeting on August 15-16, 2012 at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership offices. Expected topics for briefings and discussion include Ocean Observations, Ecosystem Based Management and Ocean Education. The meeting is open to the public. An agenda is under development, and will be posted on the ORAP [...]
The NOPP Office would like to congratulate Masaru Kunii, Takemasa Miyoshi, and Eugenia Kalnay on their recent publication in Monthly Weather Review titled “Estimating the Impact of Real Observations in Regional Numerical Weather Prediction Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter.” This publication was the result of a three year NOPP-funded project on Improving Tropical Cyclone Intensity [...]
Federal program managers and Principal Investigators (PIs) funded through the NOPP topic – Improving Tropical Cyclone Intensity – met for their annual review meeting on the campus of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science of the University of Miami in Miami, Florida on 1-2 March 2012. More than 50 scientists, graduate students, post-docs, [...]
The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center is a national partnership of organizations that works to identify the knowledge and skills needed for a variety of marine science careers to better prepare America’s workforce for ocean occupations. The MATE Center works with educators, marine industries, professional societies, and research institutions to help develop courses, curriculum, [...]