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Looking for holiday activities? Explore our videos, group activities, origami, outdoor and tabletop challenges, and a bunch of other projects that are fun, entertaining, and educational.
Looking for holiday activities? Explore our videos, group activities, origami, outdoor and tabletop challenges, and a bunch of other projects that are fun, entertaining, and educational.
You won’t find Spirobranchus giganteus, also known as the Christmas tree worm, eating your fir tree this year. The common name for these worms is derived from their appearance, not their habitat or diet.
Around the globe, the characters of Walt Disney have become holiday icons as familiar as Santa and Rudolph. But you may not know that NOAA has its own Disney icon, which, though not associated with a holiday, did much to lift the spirits of those who served in World War II.
Corals are Already a Gift. Don't Give Them as Presents. Corals have long been popular as souvenirs, for home decor, and in jewelry, but many consumers are unaware that these beautiful structures are made by living creatures.
Don't miss our two-part interview about American Samoa with NOAA's Hideyo Hattori. In the first episode, we talk about the many ways that American Samoa is unlike anywhere else in the United States. In part two, we focus on conservation of the bountiful corals that surround the islands of this remote archipelago.
An archipelago is an area that contains a chain or group of islands scattered in lakes, rivers, or the ocean. The word comes from the medieval Italian word archi, meaning chief or principal, and the Greek word pelagus, meaning gulf, pool, or pond.
View amazing imagery from two 2018 NOAA expeditions in the remote Pacific. One mission focused on surveying coral reef ecosystems, the second on cleaning up marine debris.
There are some factors that cause the tides to be higher than what is "normally" seen from day to day. View our bulletin to see when you may experience higher than normal high tides for the period of time between December 2017 and February 2019.
A nautical chart is a map of the sea. Just as a map helps us navigate on land, a nautical chart helps those traveling on the ocean get where they’re going safely and efficiently. But how do we create and update these charts?
What do you know about harmful algal blooms (HABS)? In our latest podcast, we uncover what HABS are, what they aren’t, and how we can learn to minimize their effects on our daily lives.
An unusually persistent harmful algal bloom (red tide) is currently affecting portions of Florida. Regional forecasts and frequently asked questions for the red tide are available for coastal community, public health managers.
NOAA 2019 tide tables are now available. NOAA tide predictions are used by both commercial and recreational mariners for safe navigation.
The ability to link maps digitally to information enables us to visualize and understand patterns and relationships around us. Geographic information systems, or GIS, provides this link.
The ocean may conjure images of beautiful waves, shipwrecks, and marine life. But strange things happen in the ocean as a result of weather and currents.
During a walk along the coast, you will find many types of marine debris. In all that litter, there is one item more common than any other.
