NOAA and state and federal agencies that participate in the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program are partnering again this year for National Tsunami Preparedness Week, March 24 – 30. During the week, NOAA urges coastal residents and visitors to be prepared for a tsunami and encourages communities to become TsunamiReady.
Scientists from Rutgers University, a Mid-Atlantic partner of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®), recently launched a second test mission, called “Challenger,†aimed at sending the first unmanned, underwater robotic vehicle—known as a “gliderâ€â€”around the world.
Dutch Harbor-Unalaska, Alaska and New Bedford, Mass. remain top fishing ports
How climate change affects U.S. indigenous coastal cultures is the focus of the First Stewards symposium that started yesterday at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.