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Includes training updates on Bloodborne Pathogen (BBP) Awareness 2.0 training, the Small Boat Standards and Procedures Manual Policy Test, and the NOAA Small Boat Component Course Refresher Test
Small Boat Program Training Bulletin 02-2021 (April 2021)
NOAA/GLERL will deploy an AUV in phases, each allowing increased autonomy and increased observations, culminating with the development of an under-ice docking station.
The Southwest Fisheries Science Center will use autonomous vehicles equipped with acoustic instruments to augment data collection along the California and Washington coasts.
NWS Louisville received a grant from the OMAO Uncrewed Systems Operation Center to acquire drones for use on river flood and storm damage surveys across southern Indiana and central Kentucky.
Scientists from the NOAA Fisheries, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the University of Washington are expanding the sampling capability of a Slocum autonomous underwater glider.

Survey Technician Sophia Tigges aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown removing gooseneck barnacles that have made their home on the bottom of a buoy.

Survey Technician Sophia Tigges is seen here removing barnacles from oceanographic sensors that were attached to a moored buoy.

In her own words, Sophia Tigges shares her journey from a young, budding science enthusiast to becoming a survey technician for The Nation’s leading federal scientific agency.

Capt. Marc Moser and Lt. Cmdr. Carl Rhodes act as lookouts during NOAA Ship Fairweather's northbound Inside Passage transit.