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NOAA Releases 2020-2029 Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes Acidification Research Plan

NOAA Releases 2020-2029 Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes Acidification Research Plan Released July 29, 2020 NOAA has developed a 2020-2029 Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes Acidification Research Plan that builds upon acidification science accomplishments made in the last decade and responds to newly emerging requirements in this field. In coordination with international, interagency, and external academic and […]

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GOMO Director Interviewed on COVID Impacts to Ocean Observing

GOMO Director Interviewed on COVID Impacts to Ocean Observing Climatewire and Inside Climate News In response to a GOOS report on COVID impacts to ocean observing, Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program’s Director Dr. David Legler was interviewed by E&E’s Climatewire. In the article, published July 20, 2020, Legler commented on the current state of ocean observations, including

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Drifting KEO Mooring Successfully Recovered

Drifting KEO Mooring Successfully Recovered July 21, 2020 On July 21, 2020 the surface mooring at the Kuroshio Extension Observatory (KEO), which broke away from its anchor on May 19, was recovered by the Japanese charter ship, Kaiyo. Despite being caught in eddies and an ocean jet, the drifting KEO buoy, its sensor suite and nearly 8 kilometers

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FY2021 Notice of Funding Opportunity

FY2021 Notice of Funding Opportunity On July 21st, NOAA’s Climate Program Office announced that its Fiscal Year 2021 grant competitions are open. This year, the Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program is co-funding a competition with the Climate Program Office focused on innovative ocean dataset/product analysis and development for support of the NOAA observing and climate modeling communities. Competition #5:

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NOAA Research Celebrates World Ocean Day Exploring Ocean Data

NOAA Research Celebrates World Ocean Day Exploring Ocean Data World Ocean Day is celebrated every year on June 8th. This year, NOAA Research is celebrating all month long and highlighting ocean observing and monitoring tools on social media during the week of June 8th. Follow along with the hashtags #WorldOceanMonth or #30DaysofOcean on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter

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Global Drifter Program partners with the National Data Buoy Center to support US Navy-funded Deployments

Global Drifter Program partners with the National Data Buoy Center to support US Navy-funded Deployments For many years, the Global Drifter Program’s (GDP) drifter operations center at NOAA/AOML has partnered with the National Weather Service’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) to coordinate drifter deployments during TAO and DART operations. These deployments help the operation center maintain a distributed global array

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CCE-1 Moored Buoy Rescued Days After Breaking From Anchor

CCE-1 Moored Buoy Rescued Days After Breaking From Anchor On June 6, it was discovered that the GOMO and OAP co-funded California Current Ecosystem (CCE-1) surface mooring broke away from its anchor. This mooring is typically recovered and redeployed annually, but due to COVID-19 setbacks, it had exceeded its one year station. The mooring is normally located in

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Glider in the Gulf Stream Gathers Vital Data Days Before Early Storm

Glider in the Gulf Stream Gathers Vital Data Days Before Early Storm An autonomous underwater glider in the Gulf Stream has gathered information ahead of early-season Tropical Storm Arthur, passing within 75 kilometers of the eye of the storm. This routine operation provided observations of the relatively cool upper ocean waters (less than the 26°C typically

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Global Drifter Program Operations During COVID-19

Global Drifter Program Operations During COVID-19 New Ocean Today Video Released! Deployments for NOAA’s Global Drifter Program (GDP) continue to be conducted by partners around the world despite the pandemic. Recent deployments were conducted starting on May 12th in the North Atlantic from the Icelandic Fisheries R/V Bjarni Saemundsson, and in the subtropical North Pacific

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NOAA Research Reorganization Highlights Importance of Ocean Observing

NOAA Research Reorganization Highlights Importance of Ocean Observing OOMD becomes GOMO On April 2, 2020, NOAA Research officially announced the reorganization of NOAA labs and programs to better reflect their missions and contributions. Included in the reorganization is the promotion of the former Ocean Observing and Monitoring Division (OOMD) under the Climate Program Office (CPO) to the

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