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The Honolulu-based ship is deploying researchers to set up camps in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands for four months.
Left to right: Top row: ENS Alejandro Amezcua, ENS Thomas Smith, ENS Eben Smith; Top middle row: ENS Nicolas Osborn, ENS John Stephens; Bottom middle row: ENS Nicole Morgan, ENS Jaime Hendrix, ENS Gabriella McGann, ENS Andie Cuiffo, ENS Julia Waldsmith; Bottom row: CDR Keith Golden, LT Calandria DeCastro, LTJG Peter Gleichauf
A highly-instrumented NOAA aircraft is collecting data across the Great Plains to improve our understanding of the relationships between severe thunderstorms and tornado formation.
The unexpected and exciting find was made during the ship's shakedown expedition.
A close-up view of the bow of a shipwreck discovered by NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico on May 16, 2019. Marine life is prevalent on the wreck, except on the copper sheathing which still retains its antifouling ability to keep the hull free of marine organism like Teredo navalis (shipworm) that would otherwise burrow into the wood and consume the hull or barnacles that would reduce the vessel’s speed.
Three NOAA Small Boats from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL) head out for operations.
