The NOAA Marine Operations Center - Atlantic (MOC-A) in Norfolk, Virginia, serves as the homeport for NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson and provides logistical, engineering, electronics, maintenance and administrative support to all the ships in NOAA's Atlantic fleet. This includes the following NOAA research and survey ships:
- Henry B. Bigelow (homeported in Newport, Rhode Island)
- Ronald H. Brown (homeported in Charleston, South Carolina)
- Okeanos Explorer (homeported in Newport, Rhode Island)
- Nancy Foster (homeported in Charleston, South Carolina)
- Gordon Gunter (homeported in Pascagoula, Mississippi)
- Ferdinand R. Hassler (homeported in New Castle, New Hampshire)
- Thomas Jefferson (homeported in Norfolk, Virginia)
- Oregon II (homeported in Pascagoula, Mississippi)
- Pisces (homeported in Pascagoula, Mississippi)
MOC-A is one of three marine operation centers for NOAA’s fleet. The fleet currently includes 15 oceanographic research vessels, fisheries survey vessels, and hydrographic survey vessels. The ships in NOAA’s Atlantic fleet collect data essential to protecting marine mammals, coral reefs and historic shipwrecks, managing commercial fisheries, understanding climate change, and producing nautical charts that help keep mariners safe. NOAA ships also deploy and help maintain buoys that gather oceanographic and weather information and warn of tsunamis.
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Marine Operations Center - Atlantic
439 West York St
Norfolk, VA 23510-1114
United States