The air and surface temperature tip just above freezing. Cruiseliner Ponant’s 492-ft vessel Le Commandant Charcot floats idle at marked coordinates in the Arctic tundra between Alaska and Norway. On the aft deck, a team of scientists deploys Niskin bottles using a handcrank to the depths, collecting water samples 900 meters below an ocean blanketed […]
Behind every research project at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) are a suite of instruments. Whether descending to depths or weathering storms, these technologies are paramount to oceanic and atmospheric observations. Get to know 12 of these instruments with a new social media series: 12 Days of teKNOWLEDGEy! On the 1st day of […]
Originally published on noaa.gov on December 11, 2024. Somewhere in the middle of the ocean, a merchant mariner lowers a cylindrical robotic ocean observing instrument from a ship into the sea to record ocean temperature and salinity. Another instrument is deployed from a plane into the eye of a hurricane to take the pulse of […]
The waves lap at the bow of the RV Cable while glimmers of Cheeca Rocks, a bustling inshore patch reef, ebb and flow into focus below the surface. For eleven consecutive weeks, the Coral Program at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) laid anchor at this long-term monitoring site to deploy and maintain Benthic […]
New study led by scientists at CIMAS, AOML and NMFS reveals impacts of suspended sediment from Port Miami on early life stages of a threatened Caribbean coral species.
A new study spanning two decades of research may indicate a series of reefs from the surface to 150 meters deep in the Gulf of Mexico are more resilient to warmer oceans as they are exposed to a wider range of temperatures brought on by a physical movement of seawater called “eddies.”
Las luces azules llenan la sala. El tenue olor a sal emana por todo el espacio mientras cables y tubos suspendidos de forma intrincada sobre brazos robóticos se mueven por raíles hechos a medida sobre cuatro filas de tanques llenos de agua de mar y fragmentos de corales en peligro crítico. En el Laboratorio Experimental de Arrecifes, científicos del Laboratorio Oceanográfico y Meteorológico del Atlántico (AOML) de la NOAA y del Instituto Cooperativo de Estudios Marinos y Atmosféricos (CIMAS) investigan cómo afectan los efectos del cambio climático a las especies de coral que son fundamentales para la formación de arrecifes, utilizando un conjunto de brazos robóticos de código abierto diseñados y construidos en el AOML.
Hielo flotante, temperaturas bajo cero y rayas de luces en el cielo nocturno. El crucero I08S GO-SHIP concluyó con éxito el 1 de abril.
Viento, olas e icebergs atravesando la niebla matutina: el crucero A13.5 GO-SHIP resultó tumultuoso y gratificante a la vez, con ingentes cantidades de nuevos datos que prometen futuras investigaciones revolucionarias. Tras 52 días en el mar, el crucero A13.5 GO-SHIP (abreviatura de "Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographical Investigations Program") regresó a Ciudad del Cabo (Sudáfrica) [...].
Chris Kelble, Ph.D., actuará como autor principal coordinador federal en la primera Evaluación Nacional de la Naturaleza (NAA).
