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2018 NOAA Small Boat Program Annual Report
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Proceedings of the NOAA Unmanned Marine Systems Symposium, hosted by the National Data Buoy Center in Stennis, MS, from October 30 - November 1, 2018.

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.