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Survey Technician Sophia Tigges aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown removing gooseneck barnacles that have made their home on the bottom of a buoy.
Rendering of improvements to NOAA port facility in Ketchikan, Alaska, including a new office building, trestle and dock.
Illustration of a new class of oceanographic ship being built for NOAA.
Remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer being brought aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer during a 2016 mission in the Pacific Ocean.
NOAA Corps emblem.
NOAA Corps emblem.
NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer tied up to the pier.
NOAA Lockheed WP-3D Orion "hurricane hunter" aircraft (N43RF) departing Lakeland Linder International Airport in Lakeland, Florida.
NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada, a fisheries survey vessel, near the pier in Newport, Oregon.
A welder from Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors welds the initials of the Discoverer's sponsor, Second Gentleman Douglas C. Emhoff, onto a steel plate that will be affixed to the ship.
A NOAA DHC-6 Twin Otter parked on the ground at an airport.