The federal agency supports everything from climate science to emergency preparedness. Cuts to funding and staff could hinder ...

The buoys are cited as examples of how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Weather Service ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

Florida’s coastline is about to get mapped, and it’s all thanks to two unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) launched in St.

The call for an assist from the federal government comes as state lawmakers express concerns over safety with weather buoys across the state seeing persistent issues.

After sifting through ocean current data dating back three decades, researchers at the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) have ...

Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter Program data, a study shows that ocean currents off Florida's East Coast ...

NOAA was already understaffed ... Data from the agency’s vast ocean monitoring networks, including ships, satellites and fleets of robotic buoys, feeds into near-term forecasts for weather ...

More than 880 NOAA employees have been fired under the ... about real-time conditions around the world, collected from ocean buoys, satellites, radar and other sensors. The data is then fed ...

A more immediate concern for Ripka is the maintenance of NOAA’s network of weather buoys, which monitor ocean and weather conditions. “As a fisherman, maintaining the weather buoys for safety ...

It's the folks that operate the satellites, that are also part of NOAA. It's our ocean data buoy network. Our tide and gauge network, NOAA is a great example of how the whole is greater than the ...