Ocean Observations

NOAA’s Monthly High Tide Flooding Outlook provides the daily likelihood of high tide flooding each day in the calendar year, up to a year in advance, for specific locations.

Oil and other chemicals can get into sediments, impacting large coastal areas, threatening human health, and reducing the economic well being of regions that depend on a healthy coastal environment.

Marine biodiversity—the variety and variability of life in the ocean—can be an early indicator of change, provided it's noticed.

To keep coastal communities, economies, and ecosystems healthy requires keeping track of ocean and coastal areas—monitoring and assessing how these areas are changing.

The idea behind citizen science is that anyone, anywhere, can participate in meaningful scientific research.

'Lake Level Viewer' promotes community resilience through scenarios for land use, infrastructure.

See how NOAA data standards facilitate research and development and create opportunities for 'big data' projects about our ocean.