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Keep Up with the NOAA Ship Fleet!

Check out "Shipshape," our new quarterly newsletter featuring updates from the NOAA ship fleet!

Shipshape includes features about NOAA ship missions, the people who serve aboard our ships, the history and heritage of the NOAA ship fleet, and more! Read the latest issue here and subscribe today to receive future issues via email.

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker in San Francisco Bay with bridge in background

Officer Profile: Lieutenant Junior Grade Alice Beittel

LTJG Alice Beittel stands in front of NOAA Ship Rainier in Saipan while working on the RICHARD Project. Photo: NOAA

Where did you grow up?

I grew up in San Leandro, California which is in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Where did you go to school and in what subject did you get your degree(s)?

A NOAA Corps officer standing in front of NOAA Ship Rainier

Contract for 2 NOAA research ships awarded to Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, LLC

NOAA will add two new ships to its fleet of groundbreaking research vessels. The agency selected Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, LLC. for a $624.6 million contract to initially design and build two cutting-edge research vessels, with an option to purchase two more. The first two ships will be built in Houma, Louisiana, with an expected delivery date of 2027 and 2028.

NOAA Ship Fairweather