NOAA News Releases

The latest news releases from NOAA - the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National Weather Service to Upgrade Evansville Doppler Radar - July 11, 2008

NOAAs National Weather Service Doppler radar covering Evansville, Ind., will be upgraded to make it compatible with the rest of the agencys Doppler radar network.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080711_radar.html

NOAA Begins Tracer Experiment at South Central Outfall, Delray Beach - July 11, 2008

Scientists from NOAAs Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami will conduct an experiment through Sunday that temporarily will color the water red along coastal waters off southeast Florida to investigate the plume emerging from the South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Plant ocean outfall.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080711_delraybeach.html

NOAA Joins with International Commission to Restore Muskegon Lake - July 11, 2008

Representatives from NOAA and the U.S.-Canadian Great Lakes Commission joined Michigans Lt. Gov. John Cherry today on the banks of Muskegon Lake to launch a new partnership to restore fish and wildlife habitat in the Great Lakes Region.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080711_muskegonlake.html

New NOAA Coral Bleaching Prediction System Calls for Low Level of Coral Bleaching in Caribbean this Year - July 10, 2008

A new NOAA coral bleaching prediction system indicates that there will be some bleaching in the Caribbean later this year, but the event will probably not be severe. NOAA issued the first-ever seasonal coral bleaching outlook this week at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080710_coralbleaching.html

NOAA to Conduct Environmental Study of Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet - July 10, 2008

NOAA will assess the potential environmental impact of more than 70 federally owned obsolete and decommissioned vessels moored in Suisan Bay, Calif., during a series of field tests in July and August.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080709_suisanbay.html

Aerosol Toxins from Red Tides May Cause Long-Term Health Threat - July 9, 2008

NOAA scientists reported in the current issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives that an algal toxin commonly inhaled in sea spray, attacks and damages DNA in the lungs of laboratory rats. The findings document how the bodys way of disposing the toxin inadvertently converts it to a molecule that damages DNA. Human inhalation of brevetoxins produced by the red tide organism, Karenia brevis, is an increasing public health concern.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080709_redtide.html

NOAA Takes First Broad Look at Soot from Ships - July 9, 2008

Tugboats puff out more soot for the amount of fuel used than other commercial vessels, and large cargo ships emit more than twice as much soot as previously estimated, according to the first extensive study of commercial vessel soot emissions. Scientists from NOAA and the University of Colorado conducted the study and present their findings in the July 11 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080709_soot.html

NOAA and Partners to Explore German Subs Sunk off North Carolina During World War II - July 7, 2008

NOAA will lead a research expedition July 7-26 to study the wrecks of three German submarines sunk by U.S. forces in 1942 off the coast of North Carolina during the Battle of the Atlantic.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080707_germansubs.html

NOAA Report States Half of U.S. Coral Reefs In "Poor" or "Fair" Condition - July 7, 2008

Nearly half of U.S. coral reef ecosystems are considered to be in "poor" or "fair" condition according to a new NOAA analysis of the health of coral reefs under U.S. jurisdiction.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080707_coral.html

Eastern Pacific Fishing Nations Fail to Conserve Tuna - July 2, 2008

Rodney McInnis, Southwest Administrator of NOAAs Fisheries Service and U.S. Commissioner to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), today expressed disappointment that a few countries blocked the Commissions plan to conserve depleted tuna stocks.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080702_tuna.html