Little floats with GPS units are coursing all over the eastern seaboard, and they’re rousing community college students and lobstermen from bed at the earliest of hours.

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Tags: brian tarbox, catherine chipman, drifters, drogue, gulf of maine, jim manning, kara la lomia, NOAA, portland, SMCC, southern maine community college, tom long

Some of the planet’s most beautiful and diverse ecosystems are at risk. With temperatures on the rise, coral reefs are at greater risk for coral bleaching. Using ocean observing system data from NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center, this classroom activity examines ocean temperatures off Puerto Rico to see how coral reefs are being impacted and [...]

Tags: Atlantic, bleaching, climate change, coral reefs, NDBC, NOAA, ocean literacy, OOS, RTD, students, teachers

We’re letting loose tons — literally — of carbon dioxide into our skies each day. And a good amount of that CO2 is finding its way into the ocean. Scientists from all over the world are rolling up their sleeves to try to avoid a global disaster.

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Tags: akihiko murata, carbon dioxide, carbon footprint, chris sabine, CO2, International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, NOAA, ocean acidification

Will it be a “White Christmas” this year? This is the question often asked by generations of children and adults looking forward to a warm holiday and a winter wonderland. In this data-tip we investigate how to answer this question using historical probabilities and real-time data.

Tags: Data Tip, NOAA, RTD, snow