NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION REPORTS ON WARMEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD ADMIST FEDERAL FUNDING CUTS EFFECTING HUNDREDS OF EMPLOYEES

NCEI NOAA : GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT  

Siren here!  Look at those maps.  Is your city going to be under water within your lifetime?

If you took your umbrella today, it may just be because of a scientific report from NOAA.

TIME MAGAZINE : THE TRUE COST OF NOAA CUTS - CLIMATE CHANGE

Excerpt: If you’ve ever avoided a hurricane, ducked a tornado, evacuated ahead of a wildfire, or merely relied on a weather forecast to take an umbrella to work, you likely have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to thank. As America’s—and indeed the world’s—leading weather and climate watchdog and the parent organization of the National Weather Service (NWS), NOAA runs a standing army of personnel and hardware on and off the planet to keep an eye on the Earth’s often stormy temperament. The agency owns or operates 13 weather satellites; manages more than 200 deep-water buoys: and gathers weather and climate information from a storm of data provided by no fewer than 10,600 state, local, and federal governments, as well as universities and private companies nationwide.

Excerpt: But NOAA is now threatened. As the Associated Press and others have reported, the agency’s already stretched workforce of 13,000 people is facing a deep cut of more than 1,000 of those employees mandated by the Trump Administration—a move that follows an earlier purge of about 1,300 in late February. The personnel reductions not only imperil NOAA’s ability to carry out its core chore of tracking and warning about upcoming severe weather events, they also hamper its ability to conduct basic research into climate change—carried out to help humanity better prepare for the sweeping environmental upheaval already evident in a steadily warming world.

NOAA PRESENTS HAWAIIAN HAWKSBILL TURTLES

OCEAN ECOLOGY NETWORK : AFRICA - ASIA - THE SOUTH PACIFIC and THE MIDDLE EAST : MARINE TURTLES PROJECT

Ocean Ecology Org 

Link to this site and you can hear the podcast by Dr. Manjula Tiwari.

The Ocean Ecology Network partners with Wildlife Without Borders and NOAA.

Focusing on Marine Turtle Projects,  Ocean Ecology Network is focusing on developing science-based  but also culturally sensitive solutions to conserve the marine turtles.  One of their projects is called the Ocean Music Project.  They are a California registered nonprofit.

NOAA PRINTABLE VALENTINES for the OCEAN CONSCIOUS

Free for you to download - NOAA Valentines....

Here's the link! NOAA EDU: DOWNLOAD PRINTABLE VALENTINES

ROSES ARE RED

THE OCEAN IS BLUE

THIS SEA TURTLE WANTED

TO SAY HI TO YOU!

WORLDS LARGEST DEEP SEA REEF - MIAMI to CHARLESTON - 6.4 MILLION ACRES : THIS IS AMAZING!

DAILY MAIL SCIENCE : REEF TEEMING WITH UNKNOWN SPECIES  article my Matthew Phelan

Excerpts:  Marine scientists have found and mapped the world's largest known deep-sea coral reef: a hidden ecosystem roughly the size of Vermont teeming with new species.

The discovery was the painstaking product of 23 submersible dives and 31 multibeam sonar mapping surveys, researchers revealed, all in the service of charting the Atlantic ocean's deep-set Blake Plateau.

The plateau's deep-sea or cold-water coral ecosystem stretches nearly 311 miles from Miami, Florida to Charleston, South Carolina. And it's east-to-west width reaches passed 68 miles in some regions.

Unlike shallow ocean coral, which feeds itself in part via the photosynthesis of zooxanthellae algae, and can be harmed by the heat of climate change, this D. pertusum coral filter feeds off floating biological particles, like dead cells and microorganisms. 

And, like a pale cave fish, this cold-water coral is an eerie spectral white.

MORE THAN 200 SHIPS MAKE UP AMERICA's LARGEST GHOST FLEET and THE MALLOWS BAY - POTOMAC NATURE PRESERVE - BIOBLITZ SEPTEMBER 9th

DAILY MAIL : SUNKEN GHOST FLEET 

In 2019, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration designated the area a national marine sanctuary.  All but one of the ships were built of wood.  Most were used in World War I.  As sediment built up, some of the sunken ships became places where trees and bushes took root.  A fresh water environment, both marine life and birds find a place called home.

Sept 9th - coming up, Mallows Bay is hosting a BioBlitz, so the public can volunteer to help identify the species that call Mallows Bay home.  Research on the ecology of the area is ongoing.

INFORMATION ON THE BIOBLITZ for Citizen Scientists

NOAA SPOTLIGHTS THE RIGHT WHALE - BALEEN FEEDING WHALES NOSHING ON MICROORGANISMS IN THE SEA

There may only be 400 of these whales left alive...

NOAA THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST... Three types of whales .. two types of turtles... 163 ON THE LIST

FISHERIES NOAA GOV : SPECIES

I dare you to check this list, pick one of the 163 whales, turtles, or fish on the list, and do more research!

CLIMATE CHANGE GOV : SCIENCE APPLIED TO THE HEATING OF OCEAN WATERS

CLIMATE GOV on HEATING OF OCEANS 

Creatures that adapted to cooler oceans over thousands of years are moving to where the temperatures better suit them.  Take a look at this science site. 

Excerpt: The ocean is the largest solar energy collector on Earth.  Not only does water cover more than 70 percent of our planet's surface, it can also absorb large amounts of heat without a large increase in temperature.

TIDES AND CURENTS MAP from NOAA

 Click on the map and get the tide predictions! TIDES and CURRENTS - NOAA GOV

GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE LIFE - THE LARGEST LIVING STUCTURE ON EARTH

OCEAN SERVICE NOAA : GREAT BARRIER REEF

The reef is located off the coast of Queensland, Australia, in the Coral Sea.

 

HURRICAINES - MANATEES - and DISPLACED BEACHES - EARTH CHANGES

A double whammy of intense Hurricanes hit the southern United States in recent weeks, and if you're like me, you followed the news closely, and learned that the water these storms took up and deposited elsewhere created dramatic changes, such as whole beaches gone missing, displaced manatees that had to be hauled back into water, and many other earth changes.  I've seen articles that suggest that birds have relocated inland and so should people.  The destruction was expensive and had effected millions, be it that the power is still out or that their homes are ruined.  Yet another expert said these storms were good for our economy, since there will be employment in the rebuilding.


There are so very many links to explore about hurricanes.


Check these out! NATIONAL HURRICANE DATA ARCHIVE = NOAA


NOAA GOV