Members of NOAA’s National Ocean Service, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey, NOAA Communications and the NOAA Studio Team stand with a ceremonial survey mark in front of the Mount Rushmore National ...

These record water levels may not be the end of the story for California’s coastal communities. NOAA predicts above-normal high tides will occur from November 22-27, 2026, and December 22-26, 2026, ...

Aerial view of Pensacola, Florida collected by NOAA aircraft on October 11, 2026. The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is collecting aerial damage assessment images of coastal areas in the aftermath of ...

NOAA's National Geodetic Survey is the U.S. Government source for precise latitude, longitude, and elevation measurements. The NOAA fleet of ships and aircraft is operated, managed, and maintained by ...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, the National Ocean Service’s Office of Coast Survey conducted hydrographic survey operations to help reopen Port Tampa Bay and SeaPort Manatee. As part of the ...

Reef-building corals cannot tolerate water temperatures below 64° Fahrenheit (18° Celsius). Many grow optimally in water temperatures between 73° and 84° Fahrenheit (23°–29°Celsius), but some can ...

Many serious coral reef ecosystem stressors originate from land-based sources, most notably toxicants, sediments, and nutrients. As human population and development expands in coastal areas, the ...

An AUV operates independently from the ship and has no connecting cables, whereas ROVs are connected to an operator on the ship. It appears that your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Here's a ...

The Census of Marine Life was an international project that recorded the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the ocean. A school of spadefish in Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, ...

The last ice age occurred just 16,000 years ago, when great sheets of ice covered much of Earth's Northern Hemisphere. Though the ice melted long ago, the land once under and around the ice is still ...

The rise and fall of the tides play an important role in the natural world and can have a marked effect on maritime-related activities. The image aboves shows the NOAA San Francisco Tide Station, in ...

This animation from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory shows an atmospheric river event in January 2017. Atmospheric rivers are relatively narrow regions in the atmosphere that are responsible ...