Highlights Archive
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NOAA Live! Webinar Series Brings Science at Home The NOAA Live! Webinar Series is a partnership between NOAA’s Regional Collaboration Network, Woods Hole Sea Grant, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution that developed during COVID-19 read more... |
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NART Completes Congressional Roundtables in New York, West Virginia The valuable services NOAA provides may not be obvious to members of Congress and their staff. A multi-year effort by NOAA’s North Atlantic Regional Team (NART) is designed to address this gap. read more... |
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Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Citizen Science Efforts Expanded Tracking changes in key seabird populations over time helps NOAA assess the health of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, identify issues, react nimbly, and inform management decisions. read more... |
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Cross-Line Team Continues Collaboration on Habitat Modeling Marine habitats are dynamic and the fisheries habitats in the Northeast U.S. continental shelf are rapidly changing. As fish distribution changes in response, it is critical to understand where the read more... |
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NART FY18 Operating Plan Published NOAA’s North Atlantic Regional Team has identified eight separate projects in our FY18 work plan. Several are a continuation of existing work, including our Chesapeake Research Consortium Internship read more... |
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First Marine National Monument created in the Atlantic On Sept 15 2016, President Obama designated the first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. The monument is more than 100 miles read more... |
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Fisheries, Satellite and Environmental Data Workshop The NART-sponsored Fisheries, Satellite and Environmental Data Workshop occurred on November 29th in Narragansett, RI and was led by the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC). read more... |
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NOAA in the Mid-Atlantic More than two dozen attendees from four different NOAA line offices identified best practices, gaps and opportunities to increase NOAA’s support for urban issues in the Mid-Atlantic. read more... |
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FY17 Operating Plan Published NOAA’s North Atlantic Regional Team has identified nine separate projects in our FY17 workplan. Several are a continuation of existing work, including our wave run-up work which is in its fifth year read more... |
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NART Internship Brings Fish, Weather & Oceans Together ReCo goal: Address regional challenges by connecting people and resources. When the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) Director and the Hydrologist-in-Charge of the Middle Atlantic River Forecast Cente read more... |
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A NOAA Forum for Ocean Planning Coordination NOAA Priority: Organizational Excellence, Resilient Communities ReCo Goal 1: Address regional challenges by connecting people and resources. The last several years have pushed the North Atlantic read more... |
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Wave Run-Up Capability Advances in the North Atlantic ReCo Goal: Exchange both national and regional insights to inform action. NOAA’s North Atlantic Regional Team began supporting the development of a wave run-up capability for the North Atlantic all read more... |
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NOAA Roundtables with Congressional District Staff NOAA Priority: Organizational Excellence ReCo Goal 3: Improve understanding of and respect for NOAA’s broad mission and regional capabilities. Austere budgets and the lingering effects of a Federal read more... |
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FY15 Operating Plan Published NOAA’s North Atlantic Regional Team has finalized its FY15 workplan, outlining twelve separate projects designed to enhance collaboration across NOAA and among its partners on regional priorities. read more... |
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NOAA Identifies Regional Habitat Focus Areas NOAA announced the selection of two sites in the North Atlantic as the next Habitat Focus Areas under NOAA’s Habitat Blueprint. The Penobscot River watershed in Maine and the Choptank River watersh read more... |
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FY14 Operating Plan Published NOAA’s North Atlantic Regional Team has identified 13 separate projects in our FY14 workplan. These projects are in direct response to regional drivers like Sandy recovery and President Obama’s Cl read more... |
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Sandy’s Legacy – Improved Storm Surge Prediction Tools Hurricane Sandy highlighted the need for improved coastal storm surge prediction tools. NOAA's North Atlantic Regional Team is working with other federal agencies to develop innovative new solutions s read more... |
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Sharing Low Cost Climate Change Adaptation Practices A year-long Sea Grant partnership with NOAA’s North Atlantic Regional Team (NART) has identified low-cost, innovative ways that coastal communities are addressing climate change at the local leve read more... |
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Improving Coastal Flooding Forecasts in New England On February 8-9, 2013, New England experienced a blizzard that ranked among the top 5 worst ever to hit the region. The storm produced record-setting snow totals, high winds, and almost lost in all read more... |
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Responding with a Single Voice on Offshore Renewable Energy Leases There’s growing interest among energy companies in developing the offshore waters - and winds - of the North Atlantic. The Department of Interior has the lead on approving any offshore development a read more... |
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Sharing Data Visualization Best Practices It is a challenge to effectively communicate complex scientific. Within NOAA, we have many people working on discrete data visualization tools, but they do not often have a working knowledge of read more... |
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NOAA Supports Focused Oyster Restoration in the Chesapeake NOAA led the development of oyster restoration performance metrics that set criteria for evaluating success of oyster restoration projects at both tributary and reef spatial scales. read more... |
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NOAA Partners with Industry, Scientists to Develop a “Seascape Ecology” NOAA convened a workshop at Rutgers University in March 2012 in support of an ‘open source’ approach to seascape ecology. Participants discussed the concept of a "seascape ecology". read more... |
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Long Island Sound Collaborative Mapping Project Underway In 2012, the LIS Program (CT & NY states, CT & NY Sea Grant, and the US EPA) requested NOAA’s assistance in providing technical expertise, survey data acquisition, and LIS product development. read more... |
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Storm Reporter Expands to the Mid-Atlantic Region This is an online tool designed to facilitate efficient coastal impact data entry enhance real time warning decision-making, post storm damage assessment surveys, and long term data archival. read more... |
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Northeast Launches Ocean Planning Tool Developed to enhance ocean planning efforts, the Northeast Ocean Data Portal contains regional spatial data on human activities, natural resources, and jurisdictions for New England’s coasts. read more... |
