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Ens. Jessica Spruill and Ens. John Stephens measuring the height of the new Inertial Measurement Units that will be installed aboard NOAA Ship Fairweather and all of its hydrographic survey launches.
Work aloft is being conducted aboard NOAA Ship Fairweather by authorized climbers GVA Adams and Ensign Robbins to install microwave antennas on the forward mast as part of an autonomous survey package installation. SS Chandler and Ensign Ekmanis serve as safety observers and rescue climber.
Marine Operations Organizational Chart
New ships will support a wide variety of missions, ranging from general oceanographic research and exploration to marine life, climate and ocean ecosystem studies.
Here NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown and WP-3D Orion N43RF Miss Piggy are seen collecting data together for NOAA's ATOMIC (Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign) study. The project is focused primarily on studying how ocean moisture and temperature relates to cloud formation.
Six-week scientific campaign in the Caribbean will include ships, aircraft, autonomous vehicles, buoys and other tools to study the interactions between the ocean and atmosphere.
The Rhode Island-based Henry B. Bigelow conducted a wide variety of activities to support fisheries management and study the ocean.
NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow conducts autumn bottom trawl surveys off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C.
NOAA ships Rude (left) and Heck at sea.
