Highlights Archive
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2020 Hurricane Awareness Webinar Series SECART is pleased to announce the 2020 Hurricane Awareness Webinar Series. The series is created for emergency management professionals and broadcast meteorologists, read more... |
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All Hazards Workshop and Drone Workshop Postponed SECART’s All Hazards Workshop, scheduled for 31 Mar – 2 Apr in North Charleston, SC, has been postponed to a date to be determined The Drones in the Coastal Zone Southeast Workshop, scheduled for read more... |
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SECART Hosts Shellfish Workshop On Tuesday, Feb. 25, 14 representatives of state, federal, and non-profit representatives met in Charleston, SC to discuss collaborative support of shellfish sanitation in the southeast U.S. states. read more... |
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SECART completes FY20 Annual Operating Plan NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team is pleased to announce the completion of its operating plan for FY2020. The purpose of the SECART Annual Operating Plan (AOP) read more... |
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Improving Seafloor Habitat Mapping Coordination on the Southeast US Coast A Report from Workshops Hosted by NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team Seafloor habitats from the upper estuary to the outer continental shelf support living marine resources a read more... |
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2019 Resilience Webinar Series NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team (SECART) is pleased to announce our 2019 Resilience Webinar Series. The webinar series will include the Hurricane Webinars, similar read more... |
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NOAA-Specific ICS-300 Training Course being offered in Charleston, SC 23-25 April 2019 This course provides training on the National Incident Management System (NIMS) Incident Command System (ICS) used by federal agencies during expanding incidents as required by Executive Order. read more... |
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Southeast and Caribbean NOAA Disaster Resilience Workshop Following successful workshops (and active hurricane seasons) in 2017 and 2018, NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team (SECART) and the NOAA Disaster Preparedness Program will read more... |
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NOAA’s 2018 Hurricane Season Awareness Webinars NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team (SECART) is pleased to host a Hurricane Awareness webinar series in advance of the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The webinars are read more... |
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Improving seafloor mapping coordination in the SE: April 2018 Workshop After two delays due to a hurricane and a short lapse in government funding, the SECART, NCCOS and OCM hosted the second in a series of workshops to improve coordination among agencies in mapping read more... |
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Sentinel Site Cooperative and Coastal Reserve hosts NOAA Tools Training The N.C. Sentinel Site Cooperative collaborated with the N.C. Coastal Reserve & National Estuarine Research Reserve’s Coastal Training Program to host a “NOAA Tools Training” at the NOAA read more... |
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SECART Hosts NC Congressional Roundtable SECART hosted a very successful congressional roundtable event in Beaufort, NC on Wednesday 6 September 2017. Attending were district representatives from the offices of Senator Burr, Rep. Jones, read more... |
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Improving NOAA’s Emergency Response Posture in the Southeast Intended to enhance awareness and understanding of roles, responsibilities, and capabilities of NOAA offices in the region that are, or could be, applied to a disaster situation, SECART hosted read more... |
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NOAA’s 2017 Hurricane Season Awareness Webinars NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team (SECART) was pleased to host a Hurricane Awareness webinar series in advance of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The webinars are intend read more... |
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SECART Hosts Webinar Series to Improve Seafloor Habitat Mapping in the Southeast US NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Team (SECART) is proud to host a series of webinars designed to help improve seafloor habitat mapping coordination in the southeastern United States. The pe read more... |
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SECART Host Meeting with Federal Partners to Improve Collaboration NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team (SECART) organized a meeting with mostly Atlanta-based Federal Agency partners to share roles and responsibilities and explore read more... |
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SECART Hosts webinar on drought in the Southeastern United States The Drought in the Southeast webinar, held on 12 January 2017, addressed issues related to the ongoing drought in the southeast. Speakers reviewed current conditions, factors influencing the drought, read more... |
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Congressional Roundtable focuses on Climate Resilience in South Florida On 18 May 2016 SECART hosted its first regional Congressional Roundtable focusing on “Climate Resilience in South Florida”. Six congressional offices participated, including the offices of Senator read more... |
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Hurricane Webinar Series Covers Updates for 2016 NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Team announces a webinar series in advance of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Join us to hear from specialists with NOAA’s National Hurricane read more... |
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El Nino Information and Resources: Southeast and Caribbean Region NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team (SECART) hosted, on 28 January 2016, a webinar that targeted NOAA staff in the region to better understand the ongoing El Nino conditions a read more... |
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Impacts of El Nino in the Southeast United States Three experts from across NOAA conducted a webinar on November 19 to explain the past, current, and predicted effects of El Nino in the Southeastern United States. read more... |
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Hurricane Storm Surge Products Webinar Hurricane Storm Surge Products Webinar NHC Hurricane Specialist Robbie Berg conducted a webinar on May 20th, 2015, sponsored by NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Team. Robbie began the webinar read more... |
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The NOAA Coastal Hazards Resilience Workshop: Rip Currents and Wave Runup The workshop was held to assist NOAA in further developing and improving strategies to mitigate problems associated with rip currents and wave runup (changes in water elevation at the beach due to read more... |
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CoCoRaHS in the U.S. Virgin Islands The U.S. Virgin Islands is now participating in the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow (CoCoRaHS) Network. CoCoRaHS is a unique, non-profit, read more... |
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Hurricane Products Webinar Hurricane Products Webinar NHC Senior Hurricane Specialist and Warning Coordination Meteorologist Dan Brown conducted a webinar on April 29, 2015, sponsored by NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Region read more... |
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Expedition Marks Twelve Years of Discovery in the Caribbean Expedition Marks Twelve Years of Discovery in the Caribbean Scientists recently completed the twelfth year of a research expedition to map seafloor habitats in the U.S. Caribbean aboard the NOAA Sh read more... |
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NOAA Caribbean Strategy Approved by Administrator NOAA Caribbean Strategy Approved by Administrator On June 23, 2014, NOAA Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan approved the NOAA Caribbean Strategy. The Caribbean Strategy is intended to better read more... |
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SECART Sponsored Hurricane Webinars The NOAA Southeast and Caribbean Regional Team (SECART) Weather Ready Nation Working Group helped to arrange two informative webinars related to read more... |
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Community Outreach on the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster Following a successful 10-day mission on the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster studying the hardbottom reefs and fish communities in a proposed wind energy area read more... |
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Charleston Harbor Becomes 23rd to Use NOAA PORTS® Data System Officials from NOAA's National Ocean Service and the South Carolina State Ports Authority have officially dedicated a new system to increase safety for ships in the harbor of Charleston, S.C. read more... |
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Draft ‘NOAA Caribbean Strategy’ Available for Review and Comment (now closed) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking comment on the draft version of NOAA’s Caribbean Strategy through May 31, 2013. The Strategy is intended to help NOAA: impro read more... |
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NOAA’s National Weather Service Meets with the Environmental Community in Tampa The Emergency Response Specialists representing NOAA's Weather Ready Nation Tampa Pilot Project hosted an Ecological and Environmental Workshop on March 7, 2013. NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) read more... |
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Biological and Economic Findings from Tortugas Ecological Reserve in Florida Keys A new NOAA research report finds that both fish populations and commercial and recreational anglers have benefited from “no-take” protections in the Tortugas Ecological Reserve in the Florida Keys read more... |
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NOAA and EPA Release Atlantic and Gulf Region Coastal Wetlands Reviews NOAA, in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced the release of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico regional Coastal Wetland Reviews, including the South Atlantic Review. The read more... |
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North Carolina Maps Estuarine Shoreline Over 12,000 miles of estuarine shoreline in North Carolina were digitally mapped for the first time and made available by the North Carolina Coastal Management Program, in partnership with NOAA's Offi read more... |
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Regional Facility Highlight: Southeast River Forecast Center NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) Southeast River Forecast Center (SERFC) is located in Peachtree City, Georgia. The SERFC is responsible for the production of river forecasts for all rivers th read more... |
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Inundation Impact Maps Now Available for Florida and Georgia Have you been wondering where future shallow coastal flooding and sea level rise might impact communities and habitats in Florida and Georgia? Being able to visualize potential impacts from inundation read more... |
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Rick Knabb, Ph.D., Selected to Lead NOAA’s National Hurricane Center On May 18, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., announced Rick Knabb, Ph.D., as the next director of NOAA's National Hurricane Center in Miami. Knabb started his duties with NOAA on June 4. read more... |
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Regional Facility Highlight: Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Georgia is one of the largest near-shore live-bottom reefs of the southeastern United States. Gray’s Reef was designated as a sanctuary on Ja read more... |
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‘Caribbean Marine Etiquette’ Video Launched A new video and public service announcement were launched by NOAA’s Fisheries Service and Coral Reef Conservation Program this spring to educate visitors to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico a read more... |
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Hurricane Awareness Tour Visits the Southeast Before the official start to Atlantic hurricane season on June 1, NOAA hurricane experts visited five U.S. East Coast cities, three of them in the southeast, aboard a NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft to read more... |
