President Thomas Jefferson, who founded Coast Survey in 1807, commissioned Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery Expedition in 1803, the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the contiguous United States. Today there remains a vast western America territory that is largely unknown and unexplored – the U.S. waters off the coast of […]
We’ve launched The end of June, four Saildrones left Dutch Harbor, AK and headed north. These ocean-going robots have started to carry out a 700-nautical-mile trip to Bering Strait, where they will enter the Chukchi Sea and begin their work in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, and the Arctic Ocean. NOAA Fisheries scientists at the […]
Researchers are curious to see if they will come across a “cold pool” during this year’s annual Southeastern Bering Sea Shelf Bottom Trawl Survey given the unusually warm winter and the limited sea ice coverage in 2017/2018. They suspect they might not, and that would be a first. The “cold pool” is a large mass […]
The Anchorage Police Department is warning their online visitors who may have visited their recruiting site (www.joinapd.org) and were redirected to take a survey, which has been judged to be fake, to have their device checked for a virus. APD as yet has not zeroed in on when the site was hacked and is continuing […]